---
title: Free vs. Communist (Vietnamese two-column photo sheet)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/free-vs-communist-vietnamese-1952/
description: A folded Vietnamese-language sheet that sets two photo columns side by side.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Photographs of dead, hungry and displaced civilians and a drawing of a whip-wielding soldier, kept whole. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Free vs. Communist (Vietnamese two-column photo sheet)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/free-vs-communist-vietnamese-1952.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/free-vs-communist-vietnamese-1952.jpg)

# Free vs. Communist (Vietnamese two-column photo sheet)

A folded Vietnamese-language sheet that sets two photo columns side by side. Left, under 'the United Nations has brought', pictures of a farm family, food distribution, rice fields, a house being rebuilt and a clinic; right, under 'victims of communism', a drawing of a whip-wielding soldier over a crowd and photographs captioned 'famine', 'wrongful death' and 'terror'. Each column shows only its own side, and the United Nations emblem lends its standing to the left.

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
RIÊNG TẶNG CHO MỘT THẾ-GIỚI TỰ-DO

LIÊN-HIỆP-QUỐC đã đem lại

AN-NINH
THỰC-PHẨM
RUỘNG ĐẤT MẦU MỠ
NHÀ CỬA XÂY CẤT LẠI
SỨC KHỎE CẢI-THIỆN

NẠN-NHÂN CỦA CHỦ-NGHĨA CỘNG-SẢN

Đế-quốc Cộng-sản đem lại cho VIỆT-NAM :

NẠN ĐÓI
NẠN TẢN-CƯ XA QUÊ-HƯƠNG XỨ SỞ
NẠN CHẾT OAN
NẠN CỬA NÁT NHÀ TAN
NẠN KHỦNG-BỐ
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[Left column heading] Especially dedicated to a free world

The United Nations has brought

Security
Food
Fertile fields
Houses rebuilt
Improved health

[Right column heading] Victims of Communism

Communist imperialism has brought to VIETNAM:

Famine
The calamity of displacement far from the home village
Wrongful death
The calamity of ruined houses and broken homes
Terror
```

Photo captions are printed beneath each picture, in the order listed. Headings span the left and right columns of a folded sheet. FRAME translation (machine, not fluent-reader verified).

[← "Was hast du für den Frieden getan?": backdrop quoting Anna Seghers at the 3rd German Writers' Congress, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-writers-congress-seghers-peace-quote-1952/) [Guard Your Freedom (Ilocano poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/guard-your-freedom-ilocano-1952/)

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