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title: The Government Helps the Refugees from Communism (Chính phủ giúp đỡ đồng bào tỵ nạn cộng sản)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/government-helps-refugees-from-communism-1965-1969/
description: A bilingual Vietnamese and Rhade poster (code SP-988) shows three photographs of officials handing gifts and sacks of bulgur marked as donated
section: Collection
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# The Government Helps the Refugees from Communism (Chính phủ giúp đỡ đồng bào tỵ nạn cộng sản)

A bilingual Vietnamese and Rhade poster (code SP-988) shows three photographs of officials handing gifts and sacks of bulgur marked as donated by the people of the United States to refugees from communism at Ban Me Thuot, in the Central Highlands. One caption names an Irish representative of a friendly nation. The tell is the visible donor markings on the sacks and the line that the government welcomes those who 'escaped the communist yoke', which ties the aid to the government.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CHÍNH PHỦ GIÚP ĐỠ ĐỒNG BÀO
TỴ NẠN CỘNG SẢN

PHUNG KHUA KNŬK KNA VIỆT-NAM ENGIE ĐRU MĐUP MYƠR KƠ PHUNG MNUIH BUÔN SANG MAO KLEIKNAP MNAI MƠNG PHUNG MKLIN DỞ NGĂN

1. Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng Kiêm Tiểu-Khu Trưởng đích thân trao tặng phẩm cho đồng bào tỵ nạn Cộng Sản.
1. Aê 2 asar êa prăk Khua Car Dak lak leh anăn Khua kahan dlăng alŭ diêt truh tơl asei mlei pô myơr brei dŏ dô kơ mnuih Buôn Sang duê kdê kơ phung Roh Klin.

2. Trung Tá Ireland đại diện nước bạn Hoa-Kỳ trao tặng phẩm cho đồng bào tỵ nạn Cộng Sản.
2. Aê 2 asăr êa prăk Ireland bi ala čar Amêrikei myơr brei dŏ dô kơ mnuih buôn sang duê kdê kơ phung roh Klin.

3. Đồng bào tỵ nạn Cộng Sản hoan-hỉ đón nhận các món quà tặng như: gạo, muối, sữa bột v.v. ...
3. Mnuih buôn sang duê kdê kơ phung roh klin hông bỗ mta êmhač hŏk kdŏk tũ mă djăp dŏ dô brei msĕ si: Braih, êa prãi, hra, êa ksăo bhŏk, dơ da.

TRONG CỐ-GẮNG BẢO-VỆ AN-NINH VÀ CẢI TẠO ĐỜI SỐNG ĐỒNG-BÀO CHO ĐƯỢC SUNG MÃN TỐT ĐẸP HƠN, CHÍNH PHỦ ĐÃ TIẾP ĐÓN SỐ NGƯỜI LÁNH KHỎI ÁCH-CỘNG-SẢN, GIÚP HỌ SỐNG YÊN LÀNH TẠI BANMÊTHUỘT.
HLUÊ SI HDRĂ KĂP MGANG BI MAO KLEI ÊDĂP ÊNANG, MDĬ KLEI HDĬP MDA KƠ MNUIH BUÔN SANG ČĂNG BI MÂO KLEI SUÂIH PRAL JĂK MOAK HĬN, PHUNG KHUA KNŬK KNA DRÔNG JUM LEH LU PHUNG MNUIH KLAH DUĔ MNŎNG PHUNG MKLIN, DRU LEH DIĔU DÔK HLĂM KLEI ÊDĂP ÊNANG TI BUÔN THUỐT ARĂ ANEI.

SP-988

[On the sacks in the photographs, partly legible: BULGUR ... DONATED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ... USE NO HOOKS]
```

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

```
THE GOVERNMENT HELPS COMPATRIOTS WHO ARE REFUGEES FROM COMMUNISM

[Rhade headline, parallel to the Vietnamese; not independently translated by FRAME]

1. The Lieutenant-Colonel Province Chief, who is also Sector Commander, personally presents gifts to compatriots who are refugees from communism.

2. A Lieutenant-Colonel of Ireland, representing the friendly country the United States, presents gifts to compatriots who are refugees from communism.

3. Compatriots who are refugees from communism gladly receive gifts such as rice, salt, powdered milk, etc.

In the effort to protect security and improve the people's lives to be fuller and better, the government has received a number of people who fled the communist yoke, helping them live in peace at Banmethuot.

[Rhade paragraphs follow each Vietnamese caption and the final paragraph, parallel to the Vietnamese.]

SP-988
```

The Rhade (Ede) lines are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility and are not verified by a Rhade reader. The English translation is of the Vietnamese lines only.

[← The Government is Helping People, Victims of the Communist Attack](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/government-helping-victims-communist-attack-1965-1969/) [The GVN Helps the Montagnard Communist Refugees in Darlac Province →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gvn-helps-montagnard-refugees-darlac-1965-1969/)

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