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
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.
- Date
- June 9, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of State, International Information Administration (records later held by the U.S. Information Agency)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- First Indochina War
- Techniques
- Card stackingTransfer
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NAID 5729951); image copy via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of State / U.S. Information Agency. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729951). Item page: Use Restriction Unrestricted.
Text on the object
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
[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).
