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
- Date
- March 1, 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- Event
- First Indochina War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, 1 March 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730138, 306-PPA-237).
Text on the object
TOÀN DÂN TIÊU-DIỆT C-S VIỆT-MINH [signature:] Thanh Trước [typed archival label: Viet Poster No. 5]
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.
