--- title: Result of 8 Years of Struggle poster (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/result-of-8-years-of-struggle-poster-172-vietnamese-saigon-1954/ description: A red, black and cream cartoon. A sweating, bloodied figure labelled Molotov grips a dying dove marked as the peace bird among falling feathers. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Result of 8 Years of Struggle poster [![Result of 8 Years of Struggle poster, 1954 US poster: A red, black and cream cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/result-of-8-years-of-struggle-poster-172-vietnamese-saigon-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/result-of-8-years-of-struggle-poster-172-vietnamese-saigon-1954.jpg) # Result of 8 Years of Struggle poster (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon) A red, black and cream cartoon. A sweating, bloodied figure labelled Molotov grips a dying dove marked as the peace bird among falling feathers, while figures labelled Chau-An-Lai (Zhou Enlai) and Pham-V-Dong hold a map of Vietnam that is divided into two pieces. The headline says the Viet Minh boast that their resistance was for independence and unification, and the caption calls the scene the result of eight years of resistance. The tell is name-calling and scapegoating: named foreign leaders are drawn as the cause of the division. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` VIỆT-MINH RÊU-RAO RẰNG HỌ KHÁNG-CHIẾN LÀ ĐỂ DÀNH ĐỘC-LẬP VÀ THỐNG-NHẤT CHO NƯỚC VIỆT-NAM Đây là kết-quả 8 năm "kháng-chiến"! [labels in the drawing:] MOLOTOV; CHIM HÒA BÌNH [partly legible, on the dove]; CHÂU-AN-LAI; PHAM-V-ĐỒNG; VIỆT NAM ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` The Viet Minh trumpet that they waged the resistance in order to win independence and unification for the country of Vietnam. This is the result of 8 years of "resistance"! [labels in the drawing:] MOLOTOV; PEACE BIRD [partly legible, on the dove]; ZHOU ENLAI; PHAM VAN DONG; VIETNAM ``` [← Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 35/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anba-moussawarah-35-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954/) [Laotian Symbol poster 147, king and three elephants (Lao poster distributed in Saigon) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/laotian-symbol-poster-147-king-three-elephants-lao-saigon-1954/) ## 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. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [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. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)