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title: 'Toàn dân tiêu-diệt C-S Việt-Minh (The whole people: annihilate the Viet Minh communists) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #5)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/toan-dan-tieu-diet-viet-minh-vietnamese-1951/
description: Two bare-chested men with an axe, a long blade, a knife and a staff attack a torn red flag with a yellow star, while a small crowd of silhouetted figures
section: Collection
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# Toàn dân tiêu-diệt C-S Việt-Minh (The whole people: annihilate the Viet Minh communists) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #5)

Two bare-chested men with an axe, a long blade, a knife and a staff attack a torn red flag with a yellow star, while a small crowd of silhouetted figures with raised arms advances below. The headline calls on 'the whole people' to annihilate the Viet Minh communists. The tell is bandwagon: the whole population is shown joining the attack, and the flag is the target.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
TOÀN DÂN
TIÊU-DIỆT C-S VIỆT-MINH

[signature:] Thanh Trước

[typed archival label: Viet Poster No. 5]
```

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

```
THE WHOLE PEOPLE
ANNIHILATE THE VIET MINH COMMUNISTS (C-S = cộng sản, communists)

[signature:] Thanh Trước

[typed archival label: Viet Poster No. 5]
```

Signature reading is uncertain. Machine-assisted translation, not verified by a fluent reader.

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