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title: What the Hoi Chanh Are Doing in Gia Dinh Province
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hoi-chanh-gia-dinh-1965-1969/
description: A photo-montage poster (code SP-1959) titled 'The state of mind of the Hoi Chanh in Gia Dinh' shows ralliers raising their hands in a mass meeting.
section: Collection
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# What the Hoi Chanh Are Doing in Gia Dinh Province

A photo-montage poster (code SP-1959) titled 'The state of mind of the Hoi Chanh in Gia Dinh' shows ralliers raising their hands in a mass meeting, helping build the Thu Duc provincial Chieu Hoi centre, a wedding ceremony of two ralliers before 600 guests, and a rallier woman serving food, captioned 'achieved the dream: family reunion'. The captions say ralliers pledge loyalty to the homeland 'to make up for past mistakes'. Everyday scenes are used as proof of a welcoming new life.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
NẾP NGHĨ Ý NHÌN CỦA HỒI CHÁNH TẠI GIA-ĐỊNH

Sau khi học tập thấu triệt về quốc sách Chiêu Hồi, am tường về đường lối vì dân của Chính Phủ, hồi chánh nguyện hết dạ trung thành với Tổ quốc để đền bù lại những lỗi lầm đã qua

Xung phong góp sức xây cất Trung Tâm Chiêu hồi tỉnh Thủ-Đức

Tại trung tâm, nơi đây một cặp hồi chánh đã làm lễ thành hôn trước 600 bằng hữu, trước hai họ và Đại diện Chính quyền tỉnh

Hoàn Hương, hồi chánh đã thành đạt giấc mơ: ĐOÀN TỤ GIA-ĐÌNH

SP-1959
```

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

```
THE STATE OF MIND AND OUTLOOK OF THE HOI CHANH IN GIA-DINH

After thoroughly studying the national policy of Chieu Hoi and understanding the Government's people-first line, the Hoi Chanh pledge wholehearted loyalty to the Fatherland to make up for the mistakes of the past.

Volunteering their labour to build the Chieu Hoi Centre of Thu-Duc province.

At the centre, here a pair of ralliers held their wedding ceremony before 600 friends, before both families and the Representative of the provincial authorities.

Hoan Huong, a rallier, has achieved the dream: FAMILY REUNION

SP-1959
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at the image resolution.

[← Hoi Chanh Activities at Chieu Hoi Center](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hoi-chanh-activities-vinh-binh-1965-1969/) [Hội nghị Diên Hồng, by Lưu Hữu Phước (The Dien Hong Conference) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hoi-nghi-dien-hong-luu-huu-phuoc-1965-1969/)

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