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Hoi Chanh Activities at Chieu Hoi Center, 1965 US poster: A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer photo sheet (SP-2096) shows

Hoi Chanh Activities at Chieu Hoi Center

A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer photo sheet (SP-2096) shows the Vinh Binh Chieu Hoi centre: families of ralliers, a guitar session, board games and a reading room, and vocational training in hairdressing. It says that, contrary to Viet Cong propaganda, ralliers are living happily with their wives and children. Everyday scenes of comfort answer the fear of ill-treatment on rallying.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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Date
1965
Period
Cold War
Made by
Chieu Hoi programme of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam (Vinh Binh province), sheet code SP-2096
Region
North America
Country
United States
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Johnson Administration
Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson
Audience
Enemy forces
Purpose
Reassure
Theme
War and the military
Event
Vietnam War
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source
U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights
NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Chieu Hoi programme of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam (Vinh Binh province), sheet code SP-2096. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-3-2096.

Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese (with Khmer text not transcribed)) · read from the image, not independently checked

SINH-HOẠT HỒI-CHÁNH TẠI TRUNG-TÂM CHIÊU-HỒI VĨNH-BÌNH

TỈNH VĨNH-BÌNH TRUNG-TÂM CHIÊU-HỒI

Trái với lời tuyên-truyền xuyên-tạc của VIỆT-CỘNG anh chị em Hồi-Chánh đang vui sống cùng vợ con tại trung-tâm chiêu-hồi trong thời gian tạm ngụ tại đây.

Đây trung-tâm Chiêu-Hồi Vĩnh-Bình khang trang và đầy đủ tiện nghi, nơi mà đại gia đình hồi chánh đang vui sống với tình đoàn-kết, thương yêu và tương trợ nhau như anh em ruột thịt.

Trong giờ nghỉ, ngoài việc giải-trí chiếu-bóng, thể thao anh em còn sinh hoạt văn-nghệ rất hào hứng.

Tại phòng đọc sách, có đủ loại sách báo để cho anh em xem và vừa đọc sách, báo , có cờ tướng để giải trí.

Kết-quả qua các khóa huấn-nghề tổ-chức tại trung-tâm chiêu-hồi, anh em hồi-chánh đã được theo học nghề hớt tóc để sau ngày hoàn hương anh em có thể sinh sống bằng nghề này tại xóm ấp.

SP-2096

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

ACTIVITIES OF RALLIERS AT THE VINH BINH CHIEU HOI CENTER

Vinh Binh Province, Chieu Hoi Center

Contrary to the Viet Cong's distorting propaganda, rallier brothers and sisters are living happily with their wives and children at the Chieu Hoi center during their temporary stay here.

This is the Vinh Binh Chieu Hoi center, spacious and fully equipped, where the large rallier family lives happily in solidarity, love and mutual help like blood brothers.

During rest hours, besides film shows and sports for entertainment, the brothers also take part in lively arts activities.

In the reading room there are all kinds of books and newspapers for the brothers to look at, and while reading there is Chinese chess for recreation.

As a result of the vocational courses organised at the Chieu Hoi center, the rallier brothers have been able to learn hairdressing so that after returning home they can earn a living by this trade in their hamlets.

SP-2096

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