--- title: Happy Days Return for the People of Long Huu Village url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/happy-days-return-long-huu-1965-1969/ description: Sheet SP-1848, under a 'Thoi Su Long An' (Long An Current Affairs) badge, pairs five photographs with short captions. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Happy Days Return for the People of Long Huu Village [![Happy Days Return for the People of Long Huu Village, 1965 US poster: Sheet SP-1848, under a 'Thoi Su Long An'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/happy-days-return-long-huu-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/happy-days-return-long-huu-1965-1969.jpg) # Happy Days Return for the People of Long Huu Village Sheet SP-1848, under a 'Thoi Su Long An' (Long An Current Affairs) badge, pairs five photographs with short captions: over 100 Viet Cong cadres and soldiers returned, a crowded market, children at school, reopened refreshment stalls and a village maternity house. The closing line reads 'The government always cares about the life of the people.' The tell: a before-and-after claim carried by ordinary scenes of trade, schooling and childbirth, with the rallier count as the only figure. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` THỜI SỰ LONG AN NGÀY VUI TRỞ LẠI VỚI ĐỒNG BÀO XÃ LONG HỰU Trên 100 Cán binh Việt-Cộng đã trở về với Chánh-Nghĩa Quốc-Gia. Chợ búa đã buôn bán tấp nập đông đảo. Trẻ em vui vẻ tiếp tục học tập dưới mái trường xưa. Các quầy hàng giải-khát được mở lại. Sản phụ đã có nơi trợ giúp khi sanh đẻ. CHÍNH QUYỀN LÚC NÀO CŨNG LƯU TÂM ĐẾN ĐỜI SỐNG ĐỒNG BÀO [In photographs: banner VIỆT NAM CỘNG HOÀ MUÔN NĂM; sign HIỆP - HƯNG; sign NHÀ BẢO-SANH XÃ LONG-HỰU; market banner partly illegible [illegible]] SP-1848 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` LONG AN CURRENT AFFAIRS HAPPY DAYS RETURN WITH THE PEOPLE OF LONG HUU VILLAGE Over 100 Viet Cong cadres and soldiers have returned to the National Just Cause. The market is busy with trading and crowded. Children happily continue their studies under their old school roof. Refreshment stalls have been reopened. Women in labour now have a place to help them when giving birth. THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS CARES ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE [In photographs: banner LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM; sign HIEP HUNG; sign MATERNITY HOUSE, LONG HUU VILLAGE; market banner partly illegible] SP-1848 ``` Translation by FRAME from the Vietnamese text on the poster, literal and machine-assisted, not checked by a fluent reader; the claims are the poster's own and FRAME has not checked them against other records. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. [← Happy Cham Mother Bathing Her Baby](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/happy-cham-mother-bathing-her-baby-1965-1969/) [A Happy Healthy Child Bathes Daily With Soap →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/happy-healthy-child-bathes-daily-with-soap-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.