--- title: Making Revolutionary Development Work url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/making-revolutionary-development-work-1965-1969/ description: A portrait-format sheet (code SP-1217) profiles a village chairman and a volunteer dispensary worker in Trung An village, An-Giang province. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Making Revolutionary Development Work [![Making Revolutionary Development Work, 1965 US poster: A portrait-format sheet (code SP-1217) profiles a village chairman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/making-revolutionary-development-work-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/making-revolutionary-development-work-1965-1969.jpg) # Making Revolutionary Development Work A portrait-format sheet (code SP-1217) profiles a village chairman and a volunteer dispensary worker in Trung An village, An-Giang province, with five black-and-white photographs. A first-person quote says the officials listened and agreed to the villagers' requests for schools, roads, electricity and water, and a caption says the chairman's house was burned by the communists in 1945. The tell is the named local voices: ordinary villagers testify in their own words to the programme, and the footer carries the slogan 'Today: Revolutionary Development in An-Giang. Tomorrow: throughout Vietnam.' ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Chúng tôi trình bày với các viên chức Chính Quyền là chúng tôi cần có trường học, đường xá, điện khí và nước...Các viên chức không những chỉ nghe chúng tôi trình bầy mà cũng đã đồng ý với chúng tôi. Đều này có một giá trị quan trọng đối với dân xã Trung An chúng tôi. THỰC HIỆN CUỘC PHÁT TRIỂN CÁCH MẠNG Ông Hồ Hữu Ngân, Chủ Tịch Xã Trung An, một Xã gồm 18,600 dân, rất hăng hái về cuộc Phát Triển Cách Mạng bởi đã thấy lợi ích lớn lao của công cuộc đối với nhân dân. Ông đã từng nếm biết sự phá hoại của Việt Cộng. Chính nhà của ông đã bị Cộng Sản đốt phá năm 1945 và phần nhà hư hại vẫn còn đó như một kỷ niệm u buồn nhắc nhở trong lòng mọi người. Nhưng công việc cải tiến sinh hoạt Xã Trung An vẫn còn nhiều Một trong những người hăng hái tận tụy là ông Nguyễn Đình Hậu. Ông phục vụ dân chúng Xã Trung An và vùng phụ cận Xã Trung Nhất tại một phòng phát thuốc đặt chung trong một nhà bảo sanh do một Cô Đỡ của Chính Phủ trông coi. Ông Hậu đang săn sóc một em bé tại bệnh xá. Tôi đến ông Hậu viếng bà con lối xóm chỉ dẫn cách vệ sinh phòng bệnh. NGÀY NAY: PHÁT TRIỂN CÁCH MẠNG TẠI AN-GIANG NGÀY MAI: TRÊN TOÀN ĐẤT NƯỚC VIỆT-NAM SP-1217 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` We told the government officials that we need schools, roads, electricity and water... The officials not only listened to us but also agreed with us. This has great importance for us, the people of Trung An village. CARRYING OUT REVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT Mr. Ho Huu Ngan, Chairman of Trung An village, a village of 18,600 people, is very enthusiastic about Revolutionary Development because he has seen the great benefit of the work for the people. He has himself tasted the destruction of the Viet Cong. His own house was burned and wrecked by the Communists in 1945 and the damaged part is still there, a sad memento reminding everyone. But there is still much work to improve life in Trung An village. One of the devoted enthusiasts is Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hau. He serves the people of Trung An village and the neighbouring Trung Nhat village at a dispensary set up within a maternity house run by a government midwife. Mr. Hau is looking after a baby at the dispensary. [I go with] Mr. Hau to visit neighbours and instruct them in hygiene and disease prevention. TODAY: REVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT IN AN-GIANG TOMORROW: THROUGHOUT VIETNAM SP-1217 ``` Read from the image. The caption 'Tôi đến ông Hậu viếng bà con lối xóm...' is printed so; it reads as a first-person caption in which the speaker accompanies Mr. Hau, rendered with bracketed '[I go with]'. 'Đều này' is printed so (for 'Điều này'). [← Long-Trường Thủ-Đức, mồ chôn Việt Cộng (Long Truong, Thu Duc, Graveyard of the Viet Cong)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/long-truong-thu-duc-mo-chon-viet-cong-1965/) [The Marines of Korea Bring Protection and Help to the People of Vietnam, poster (306-VP-01-1601) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/marines-of-korea-protection-and-help-juspao-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [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) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Seljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seljuq-gold-dinar-sanjar-caliph-name-1099/) (Great Seljuk Empire · 1099 · Testimonial) - [Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial) - [Opening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-urban-ii-preaching-first-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial, Transfer)