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title: New Market Opened in An Hoa Village
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-market-opened-an-hoa-village-1966/
description: Sheet SP-1060 reports that on 18 March 1966 the province chief, Lieutenant Colonel Tran Thanh Xuan, opened a new market at An Hoa village.
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---

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# New Market Opened in An Hoa Village

Sheet SP-1060 reports that on 18 March 1966 the province chief, Lieutenant Colonel Tran Thanh Xuan, opened a new market at An Hoa village, Hoa Lac district, built by villagers and officials 'with the assistance of the American government'. Photographs show the ceremony, a school, militia soldiers and new houses, and the foot of the sheet reads 'Viet Cong destroy! The Republic of Vietnam government builds!'. The tell: a one-line destroy/build contrast closes a sheet of positive local scenes.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CHỢ MỚI TẠI AN HÒA GÒ CÔNG

NGÀY 18/3/66 TRUNG TÁ TỈNH TRƯỞNG TRẦN THANH XUÂN ĐÃ KHÁNH THÀNH MỘT CHỢ MỚI TẠI XÃ AN HÒA, QUẬN HÒA LẠC. NGÔI CHỢ ĐÃ ĐƯỢC XÂY CẤT DO CỐ GẮNG CỦA DÂN TRONG XÃ VÀ CHÍNH QUYỀN VỚI SỰ TRỢ GIÚP CỦA CHÍNH PHỦ HOA KỲ. TẠI AN HÒA CŨNG NHƯ CÁC XÃ KHÁC THUỘC GÒ CÔNG CHÍNH QUYỀN VÀ DÂN CHÚNG HỢP TÁC CHẶT CHẼ TRONG CÔNG CUỘC XÂY DỰNG NỀN HÒA BÌNH VÀ THỊNH VƯỢNG CỦA XỨ SỞ.

Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng Trần Thanh Xuân ngỏ lời cùng dân chúng trong xã nhơn buổi lễ khánh thành chợ mới tại An Hòa.

Đối diện với chợ là ngôi Trường học. Một trường vừa được xây cất xong tại Xã. Dân chúng sắp xây thêm một ngôi trường Tiểu học khác.

Những binh sĩ Nghĩa Quân cũng góp phần đắc lực trong việc bảo vệ an ninh cho đồng bào tự do đi lại mua bán.

Tin tưởng mạnh mẽ ở tương lai dân chúng đã hăng hái trong việc xây cất nhà cửa.

VIỆT CỘNG PHÁ HOẠI ! CHÍNH PHỦ V.N.C.H. XÂY DỰNG !

SP-1060

[Banner in photograph:] LỄ KHÁNH-THÀNH CHỢ AN-HÒA 18-3-1966
[Sign in photograph:] TRƯỜNG TIỂU HỌC SƠ-CẤP HOÀ-AN(?)-HI
```

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

```
NEW MARKET AT AN HOA, GO CONG

On 18/3/66 Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief Tran Thanh Xuan inaugurated a new market in An Hoa village, Hoa Lac district. The market was built through the efforts of the villagers and the authorities with the assistance of the American government. At An Hoa as in the other villages of Go Cong, the authorities and the people cooperate closely in the work of building peace and prosperity for the country.

Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief Tran Thanh Xuan addresses the villagers at the inauguration of the new market at An Hoa.

Facing the market is the school. A school has just been completed in the village. The people are about to build another primary school.

The Popular Force (Nghia Quan) soldiers also play an effective part in protecting security so that the compatriots can move freely and trade.

With strong confidence in the future, the people have been eager in building houses.

THE VIET CONG DESTROY! THE R.V.N. GOVERNMENT BUILDS!

SP-1060

[Banner in photograph:] INAUGURATION CEREMONY, AN HOA MARKET, 18-3-1966
[Sign in photograph:] [primary school sign, partly illegible]
```

Translation by FRAME from the Vietnamese text on the poster, literal and machine-assisted, not checked by a fluent reader; the claims are the poster's own and FRAME has not checked them against other records. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. The school sign in the photograph is only partly legible and is marked as such; the two pillar slogans in the same photograph are not transcribed.

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