--- title: Land for the Farmers url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/land-for-the-farmers-1965-1969/ description: A photo-montage sheet (code SP-1047) reports a ceremony at which a deputy province chief handed land-ownership certificates to 185 farmers in five villages section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Land for the Farmers [![Land for the Farmers, 1965 US poster: A photo-montage sheet (code SP-1047) reports a ceremony at which a deputy province](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/land-for-the-farmers-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/land-for-the-farmers-1965-1969.jpg) # Land for the Farmers A photo-montage sheet (code SP-1047) reports a ceremony at which a deputy province chief handed land-ownership certificates to 185 farmers in five villages of Nha Be district, covering 227 mau 12 sao 72 cao. Four photographs show a speaker reading, the hall, a woman farmer receiving her certificate and men examining the document. Only the handover is shown and counted; the sheet gives no figures for other farmers or for land not yet distributed. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CẤP PHÁT RUỘNG ĐẤT CHO NÔNG DÂN Ông Nguyễn Thôn Độ, Phó Tỉnh Trưởng Hành Chánh đại diện Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng Gia Định chủ tọa buổi lễ cấp bằng khoán quyền sở hữu ruộng đất cho 185 nông dân 5 xã thuộc quận Nhà Bè với diện tích 227 mẫu 12 sào 72 cao. Một tân điền chủ đại diện 185 nông dân quận Nhà Bè phát biểu cảm tưởng sau khi nhận bằng khoán quyền sở hữu ruộng đất. Một nữ nông dân xã Tân Quy Đông hân hoan lãnh nhận bằng khoán làm chủ ruộng đất do chính tay bà khai phá trong những năm qua. Nét mặt hân hoan tràn đầy tin tưởng của các nông dân sau khi lãnh bằng khoán chính thức làm chủ ruộng đất của họ. SP-1047 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` LAND ALLOCATION TO FARMERS Mr. Nguyen Thon Do, Deputy Province Chief for Administration, representing the Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief of Gia Dinh, presided over the ceremony granting land-ownership certificates to 185 farmers in 5 villages of Nha Be district, with an area of 227 mau 12 sao 72 cao. A new landowner, representing the 185 farmers of Nha Be district, speaks his feelings after receiving the land-ownership certificates. A woman farmer of Tan Quy Dong village joyfully receives the certificate making her owner of land that she herself cleared over the past years. The joyful, confident faces of the farmers after receiving the certificates officially making them owners of their land. SP-1047 ``` Vietnamese diacritics transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at image resolution. The caption 'Nghị-định ... Cấp quyền sở-hữu' on the certificate in the lower right photograph is too small to read and is not transcribed. [← Lâm-Đồng xây dựng (Lam Dong Builds)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lam-dong-builds-1965-1969/) [Land for the People (Cấp phát ruộng đất cho nhân dân) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/land-for-the-people-sp-985-1965/) ## 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.