--- title: 'Step Number One: The Social Revolution Moves Forward' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/step-number-one-social-revolution-moves-forward-1965-1969/ description: A photo sheet (code SP-1219) built round a named militia platoon leader of An Giang, Nguyen Van Bang, who is quoted saying people feel safer and that all section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Step Number One: The Social Revolution Moves Forward [![Step Number One: The Social Revolution Moves Forward, 1965 US poster: A photo sheet (code SP-1219) built round a named](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/step-number-one-social-revolution-moves-forward-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/step-number-one-social-revolution-moves-forward-1965-1969.jpg) # Step Number One: The Social Revolution Moves Forward A photo sheet (code SP-1219) built round a named militia platoon leader of An Giang, Nguyen Van Bang, who is quoted saying people feel safer and that all cooperate closely. Photographs show militia standing guard on a road and patrolling in file, and the text says militia now secure the road from village to province and work with rural-construction cadres to rebuild bridges. The slogan strip reads 'Today: revolution grows in An Giang. Tomorrow: throughout Vietnam.' ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [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 ``` Trung Đội Trưởng Nghĩa Quân, Nguyễn-văn-Bằng nói "Nhân dân cảm thấy yên ổn hơn. Họ đang xây dựng đời sống sung túc hơn. Tất cả chúng tôi đều hợp tác chặt chẽ..." BƯỚC ĐẦU ĐÃ HOÀN TẤT: CÁCH MẠNG XÃ HỘI TIẾN MẠNH Đời sống sung túc ấm no đã trở lại ấp này. Chập tối là hai Trung Đội Nghĩa Quân tuần hành phía ngoài ấp để bảo vệ an ninh cho dân chúng cho đến hừng sáng. Bây giờ đường lộ từ Xã đến Tỉnh được bảo đảm an ninh do lực lượng Nghĩa Quân. Chúng tôi hợp tác với anh em Cán Bộ Xây Dựng Nông Thôn để xây cầu và sửa chữa lại đường xá. Giờ chúng tôi có thể chuyên chở lúa gạo và rau cải đến chợ nhanh chóng và an toàn hơn. NGÀY NAY: PHÁT TRIỂN CÁCH MẠNG TẠI AN-GIANG NGÀY MAI: TRÊN TOÀN ĐẤT NƯỚC VIỆT-NAM. SP-1219 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Militia Platoon Leader Nguyen-van-Bang says "The people feel more secure. They are building a more prosperous life. All of us cooperate closely..." STEP ONE COMPLETED: THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION MOVES FORWARD A prosperous, well-fed life has returned to this hamlet. At dusk two Militia platoons patrol outside the hamlet to protect the people until dawn. Now the road from the village to the province is kept secure by the Militia force. We cooperate with our brothers of the Rural Construction Cadre to build bridges and repair the roads. Now we can carry rice and vegetables to market faster and more safely. TODAY: DEVELOPING THE REVOLUTION IN AN-GIANG TOMORROW: THROUGHOUT VIETNAM. SP-1219 ``` Vietnamese diacritics transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at image resolution. [← Các bệnh do phân (The Spread of Diseases)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spread-of-diseases-feces-borne-1965-1969/) [Student Youth Camp Programme in Darlac Province →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/student-youth-camp-darlac-province-1965-1969/) ## 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. - [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) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Seljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seljuq-gold-dinar-sanjar-caliph-name-1099/) (Great Seljuk Empire · 1099 · Testimonial) - [Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial) - [Opening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-urban-ii-preaching-first-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial, Transfer)