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
- Date
- September 2, 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 2, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949079, 306-PPB-172).
Text on the object
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
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
