--- title: Mothers of Dinh Tuong url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mothers-of-dinh-tuong-1965-1969/ description: A red headline addresses the mothers of Dinh Tuong province and asks whether their children are in the so-called 'liberation'. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Mothers of Dinh Tuong [![Mothers of Dinh Tuong, 1965 US poster: A red headline addresses the mothers of Dinh Tuong province and asks whether their](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mothers-of-dinh-tuong-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mothers-of-dinh-tuong-1965-1969.jpg) # Mothers of Dinh Tuong A red headline addresses the mothers of Dinh Tuong province and asks whether their children are in the so-called 'liberation'. Three photographs carry running counts for the lunar months of December to February: 2,662 Viet Cong killed (a woman at a coffin), 600 captured, and 540 who rallied. The tell is the three-way tally, with death shown as the common outcome and Chieu Hoi as the 'only way' home, plus scare quotes around 'liberation'. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` NHẮN NHỦ CÁC BÀ MẸ Ở TỈNH ĐỊNH TƯỜNG: Con cái các bà có ở trong cái gọi là "GIẢI PHÓNG" không? Đây là số phận của các cán binh Việt Cộng trong những tháng Chạp, tháng Giêng và tháng Hai D. L. 2662 cán binh Việt Cộng đã bị hạ 600 cán binh Việt Cộng đã bị bắt 540 cán binh Việt Cộng đã ra hồi chánh CÁC CÁN BINH VIỆT CỘNG HÃY QUYẾT ĐỊNH CHỌN CON ĐƯỜNG TỐT ĐẸP NHẤT CHIÊU HỒI LÀ ĐƯỜNG LỐI DUY NHẤT CHO CÁC CÁN BINH VIỆT CỘNG TRỞ VỀ VỚI GIA ĐÌNH THÂN YÊU CỦA MÌNH 3138 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` A MESSAGE TO THE MOTHERS IN DINH TUONG PROVINCE: Are your children in the so-called "LIBERATION"? This is the fate of the Viet Cong cadres and soldiers in the months of Chạp, Giêng and Hai [by] the solar calendar. 2,662 Viet Cong soldiers brought down 600 Viet Cong soldiers captured 540 Viet Cong soldiers rallied (returned to the government) VIET CONG SOLDIERS, DECIDE TO CHOOSE THE BEST PATH CHIEU HOI IS THE ONLY WAY FOR VIET CONG SOLDIERS TO RETURN TO THEIR BELOVED FAMILIES 3138 ``` 'Hạ' (brought down) is rendered literally and is the poster's wording for killed. 'Định Tường' is the province name (Dinh Tuong). [← Đài Kỷ-Niệm Hy-Vọng (The "Monument to Hope" at Thanh Dien)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/monument-to-hope-thanh-dien-1965/) [Never Too Late to Learn: Popular Educational Classes for Adults in Bac Lieu Province →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/never-too-late-adult-education-bac-lieu-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)