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title: 'Hôm nay / Ngày mai: tại sao Việt Cộng thi hành chánh sách ''cưỡng bách tòng quân'' (Today / Tomorrow: why the Viet Cong carry out the policy of ''forced conscription'')'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hom-nay-ngay-mai-forced-conscription-cartoon-1966/
description: A narrow two-panel cartoon leaflet is labelled 'Today' and 'Tomorrow'.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Cartoon panel showing a field of dead soldiers under aircraft and smoke, and a young man being seized by armed men. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Hôm nay / Ngày mai: tại sao Việt Cộng thi hành chánh sách 'cưỡng bách tòng quân' (Today / Tomorrow: why the Viet Cong carry out the policy of 'forced conscription')

A narrow two-panel cartoon leaflet is labelled 'Today' and 'Tomorrow'. At left two armed men in conical hats seize a young man while a woman raises her arms in distress; at right bodies lie across a field under smoke and low-flying aircraft. The tell: a before-and-after pairing in which recruitment by the other side is shown ending in mass death, with the slogan posed as a question about 'forced conscription'.

## Text on the object

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

```
HÔM NAY

NGÀY MAI
TẠI SAO VIỆT CỘNG THI HÀNH
CHÁNH SÁCH
"CƯỠNG BÁCH TÒNG QUÂN"
```

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

```
TODAY

TOMORROW
WHY DO THE VIET CONG CARRY OUT
THE POLICY OF
"FORCED CONSCRIPTION"
```

The cartoon panels carry no other text. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← "Garantía de la paz, garantía del futuro": Spain's national referendum poster, 1966](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/franco-referendum-garantia-de-la-paz-1966/) ["毛主席第七次检阅文化革命大军" (Chairman Mao reviews the great army of the Cultural Revolution for the seventh time), woven silk picture →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mao-zhou-lin-silk-picture-seventh-review-1966/)

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