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title: This Is Your Flag (Vietnamese-language poster distributed in Vietnam)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-is-your-flag-vietnamese-1951/
description: A Vietnamese-language folded sheet. Left, a yellow flag with three red stripes under the words 'This is the national flag of Vietnam'.
section: Collection
---

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[![This Is Your Flag, 1951 US poster: A Vietnamese-language folded sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-your-flag-vietnamese-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-your-flag-vietnamese-1951.jpg)

# This Is Your Flag (Vietnamese-language poster distributed in Vietnam)

A Vietnamese-language folded sheet. Left, a yellow flag with three red stripes under the words 'This is the national flag of Vietnam'. Right, a red flag with a yellow star crossed out by blue brush strokes under 'This is not'. Centre, a drawing of a crowd at a flagpole and a text on the meaning of the flag. The tell is transfer, attaching blood, loyalty and independence to one flag, with name-calling on the other as 'the Communist flag'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ĐÂY LÀ QUỐC-KỲ VIỆT-NAM

ĐÂY KHÔNG PHẢI

Lá Quốc-kỳ của chúng ta nêu cao, phất-phới trước gió...
Đó là biểu-hiệu tượng-trưng cho nền Độc-lập của nước Việt-Nam,
ngày toàn dân thoát ách nô-lệ: mừng 8 tháng 3, 1949.

Ý-NGHĨA CỦA LÁ QUỐC-KỲ CHÚNG TA

Hãy nhớ lấy ý-nghĩa của màu cờ chúng ta. Màu đỏ tượng-trưng cho giòng máu thắm, chí can-trường, dân tộc ba kỳ như 1 đã từng nhiều phen chứng-tỏ, màu vàng là biểu-hiệu của phương Nam, phương Nam đã từng lắm lần nổi sóng để hướng lên những ý-chí cao-cả, để tạo cho mình một tên tuổi trong bốn biển năm châu.

Quốc-kỳ là tượng-trưng của xứ-sở chúng ta, biểu-hiệu của nền tự-do chúng ta. Hãy tự-hào với lá Quốc-kỳ của chúng ta, hãy làm vẻ-vang cho nó, vì máu anh hùng đất nước tự ngàn xưa đã đổ ra mà giành lấy nền tự-chủ cho non-sông Cổ-Việt tự Bạch-Đằng, Mê-Linh đến Lam-Sơn, Phú-Quốc.

Hãy thiết-tha với lá Quốc-kỳ chúng ta, hãy bảo-vệ lấy nó! Và đừng bao giờ để cho lá cờ nào khác giành chỗ danh-dự của nó trên sông núi Việt-Nam! Vạn-tuế Quốc-kỳ Việt-Nam! chớ chi nó mãi phất-phới trên giải đất này cho đến ngày thiên-cùng địa-tận.

DƯỚI LÁ CỜ CỘNG-SẢN
Lá cờ Cộng-sản đã có phen tìm thấy trong xứ-sở chúng ta. Nó giầy-đạp tất cả những gì chúng ta tôn-trọng, yêu-quí!
Đã-đảo lá cờ Cộng-sản!
Chúng ta chỉ có lá cờ duy nhất, lá Quốc-kỳ Việt-Nam của chúng ta!

[handwritten, lower right:] 306-PPA-193A
```

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

```
THIS IS THE NATIONAL FLAG OF VIETNAM

THIS IS NOT

Our national flag is raised, fluttering in the wind... It is the symbol of the Independence of Vietnam, the day the whole people threw off the yoke of slavery: celebrating 8 March 1949.

THE MEANING OF OUR NATIONAL FLAG

Remember the meaning of our flag's colours. Red symbolises the deep-red blood and the courage that the people of the three regions as one have repeatedly shown; yellow is the symbol of the South, which has many times surged to rise toward lofty aims and make a name for itself across the four seas and five continents.

The national flag is the symbol of our country and of our freedom. Be proud of our flag, bring glory to it, for the blood of the nation's heroes since ancient times was shed to win autonomy for the old Viet land, from Bach-Dang, Me-Linh to Lam-Son and Phu-Quoc.

Be devoted to our flag and protect it! Never let any other flag take its place of honour over the rivers and mountains of Vietnam! Long live the national flag of Vietnam! May it flutter forever over this land until heaven and earth end.

UNDER THE COMMUNIST FLAG
The Communist flag has been seen in our country. It tramples everything we respect and hold dear!
Down with the Communist flag!
We have only one flag, the national flag of Vietnam!

[handwritten:] 306-PPA-193A
```

Small print at lower right is partly hard to read; diacritics follow the best reading. Show-through from the reverse is excluded.

[← Bản Quốc-thiều Việt-Nam (The Vietnamese National Anthem; Vietnamese-language sheet distributed in Vietnam)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ban-quoc-thieu-viet-nam-anthem-vietnamese-1951/) [Indi na kami mga tao! (We are no longer people) (Hiligaynon poster distributed in the Philippines) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-are-no-longer-human-beings-hiligaynon-1951/)

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