--- title: Kontum tiến bộ (Kontum on the Way to Improvements) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kontum-tien-bo-kontum-progress-1965-1969/ description: A bilingual photo sheet headed 'Kontum Progress' shows New Life hamlet houses, a farmer ploughing with oxen, a sandbagged guard post and a group of men section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Kontum tiến bộ (Kontum on the Way to Improvements) [![Kontum tiến bộ, 1965 US poster: A bilingual photo sheet headed 'Kontum Progress' shows New Life hamlet houses, a farmer](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kontum-tien-bo-kontum-progress-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kontum-tien-bo-kontum-progress-1965-1969.jpg) # Kontum tiến bộ (Kontum on the Way to Improvements) A bilingual photo sheet headed 'Kontum Progress' shows New Life hamlet houses, a farmer ploughing with oxen, a sandbagged guard post and a group of men at the Kontum Chieu Hoi centre. Vietnamese captions, each paired with a highland-language caption, say the programme gave Kontum's highland people secure hamlets, that they should still guard against the Communists, and that hundreds of armed Viet Cong rallied. The tell: a parallel-language sheet that frames highland villagers as beneficiaries while placing a warning and a rallier group photo beside the harvest scenes. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese (with parallel highland-language text)) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` KONTUM TIẾN BỘ [highland-language headline line, not transcribed: KONTUM VỠ MRĔT MRĔT] HÌNH ẢNH THỜI-SỰ HÀNG THÁNG Chính sách Bình-Định và Xây dựng Nông thôn đã tạo cho tỉnh KONTUM những ấp Đời Mới khang trang, sầm uất, đem lại an vui, no ấm cho hàng vạn đồng bào Kinh Thượng. [highland-language text, not transcribed] Sống trong an vui no lành, nhưng người dân Kontum không quên đề phòng bọn Cộng sản tàn ác. [highland-language text, not transcribed] Tiến bộ không kém người Kinh, đồng bào Thượng sống trong các ấp Đời Mới đã biết xử-dụng trâu bò để canh-tác, do đó năng xuất mùa màng gia-tăng gấp bội [highland-language text, not transcribed] Nhờ đó đã lôi cuốn hàng trăm cán-binh Cộng-sản đem theo vũ-khí về hồi-chánh [highland-language text, not transcribed] [banner in photograph: TRUNG-TÂM CHIÊU-HỒI KONTUM] SP-1991 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` KONTUM PROGRESS [highland-language headline line, not transcribed] MONTHLY NEWS PICTURES The Pacification and Rural Construction policy has created for Kontum province spacious, bustling New Life hamlets, bringing peace, comfort and warmth to tens of thousands of Kinh and highland compatriots. [highland-language text, not transcribed] Living in peace and plenty, the people of Kontum do not forget to guard against the cruel Communists. [highland-language text, not transcribed] Progress no less than the Kinh: the highland compatriots living in the New Life hamlets have learned to use buffalo and cattle for farming, so crop yields have multiplied. [highland-language text, not transcribed] This has attracted hundreds of Communist cadres and soldiers to come over, bringing weapons, to rally to the government. [highland-language text, not transcribed] [banner in photograph: KONTUM CHIEU HOI CENTER] SP-1991 ``` [← Kontum (Kontum Progress: Monthly News Pictures on Choosing and Preparing a Vegetable Plot)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kontum-progress-vegetable-gardens-1965-1969/) [Korean Marines Protect and Help the People of Quang-Ngai, poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/korean-marines-protect-and-help-people-of-quang-ngai-1965/) ## 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.