--- title: Returning Home url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/returning-home-long-hung-sa-dec-1968/ description: A portrait sheet headed 'Return to the old village' says thousands who fled Communism have gone back to their home villages under the government's Rural section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Returning Home [![Returning Home, 1968 US poster: A portrait sheet headed 'Return to the old village' says thousands who fled Communism have](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/returning-home-long-hung-sa-dec-1968.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/returning-home-long-hung-sa-dec-1968.jpg) # Returning Home A portrait sheet headed 'Return to the old village' says thousands who fled Communism have gone back to their home villages under the government's Rural Pacification campaign, citing Long Hung village in Sa Dec province, where 264 families of over 1,500 people had returned by late November 1968. Seven blue-tinted photographs show registration for building materials, a militiaman with an M16 rifle, a reopened market, a new school and rebuilding work. The tell is the growing return count presented as a mass movement, with a single armed local militiaman as the security image. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` TRỞ VỀ LÀNG CŨ Hàng ngàn người lúc trước đã đi lánh nạn Cộng Sản nay đã trở về quê cũ khi Chính Phủ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa phát động chiến dịch Bình Định Nông Thôn. Xã Long Hưng cách Saigon 150 cây số về hướng Tây Nam là một thí dụ cụ thể. Lúc trước Cộng Sản đã xâm nhập Xã này nên toàn thể dân chúng đã bỏ đi. Đến cuối tháng 11-1968 khi nhân dân trong tỉnh Sa Đéc hay tin Cộng Sản đã bị đánh đuổi thì đã có 264 gia đình gồm hơn 1500 người đã lần lượt kéo về quê cũ tại Long Hưng, và các xã Hưng Quới, Hưng Mỹ Đông và Hưng Thanh Tây để làm ăn. Dọc theo con kinh Sa Đéc Bắc Sắc hai bên bờ người ta đã thấy sinh hoạt nhộn nhịp của dân chúng trong công tác xây dựng lại nhà cửa với vật liệu do Bộ Y Tế Xã Hội và Cứu Trợ yểm trợ. Những gia đình trở về đều nhận được nhanh chóng các thực phẩm, dụng cụ và vật liệu xây cất sau khi họ ghi tên tại trụ sở Xã Long Hưng. Ghi tên để nhận những vật liệu xây cất. Anh Nghĩa Quân này sung sướng với khẩu súng M16 tối tân Nơi họp chợ đã tấp nập trở lại. Công tác tái kiến thiết. [banner in photograph:] CHỢ / XÂY DỰNG ẤP ĐỜI MỚI ĐỂ CẢI TIẾN DÂN SINH NÂNG CAO DÂN TRÍ [sign in photograph:] KIM CỔ KỊCH ĐOÀN TIẾN HƯNG, VĨNH LONG Một trường mới vừa được xây cất. 3141 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` RETURN TO THE OLD VILLAGE Thousands of people who earlier fled Communism have now returned to their old home villages since the Government of the Republic of Vietnam launched the Rural Pacification campaign. Long Hung village, 150 kilometres south-west of Saigon, is a concrete example. Earlier the Communists infiltrated this village, so the entire population left. By the end of November 1968, when the people of Sa Dec province learned that the Communists had been driven out, 264 families of more than 1,500 people had come back one after another to their old homes in Long Hung and the villages of Hung Quoi, Hung My Dong and Hung Thanh Tay to make a living. Along the Sa Dec-Bac Sac canal, on both banks, one sees the people's bustling activity rebuilding their houses with materials supported by the Ministry of Social Welfare and Relief. The families who returned all quickly received food, tools and building materials after registering at the Long Hung village office. Registering to receive building materials. This militiaman is happy with the latest M16 rifle. The market place is bustling again. Reconstruction work. [banner in photograph:] MARKET / BUILD NEW LIFE HAMLETS TO IMPROVE THE PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOOD AND RAISE THE PEOPLE'S EDUCATION [sign in photograph:] TIEN HUNG OLD-STYLE THEATRE TROUPE, VINH LONG A new school has just been built. 3141 ``` [← Republic of Vietnam: Special Issue on the National Day (Consulate General in Hong Kong, 1968), cover](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/republic-of-vietnam-national-day-1968-whole-country-map-cover-1968/) [The Road to Life →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/road-to-life-nguyen-van-ngu-1968/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [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) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.