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title: Tổng kết thiệt hại Việt Cộng trong năm Ất Tỵ 1964-1965 (Summary of VC Losses in the Year of the Snake, 1964-1965)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tong-ket-thiet-hai-viet-cong-nam-at-ty-snake-1965/
description: 'A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP-929) tallies ''Viet Cong losses'' for the Year of the Snake: nearly 18,000 weapons captured.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Shows a photograph of the bodies of dead fighters lying in a muddy trench, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Tổng kết thiệt hại Việt Cộng trong năm Ất Tỵ 1964-1965, 1965 US poster: A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP-929) tallies](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tong-ket-thiet-hai-viet-cong-nam-at-ty-snake-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tong-ket-thiet-hai-viet-cong-nam-at-ty-snake-1965.jpg)

# Tổng kết thiệt hại Việt Cộng trong năm Ất Tỵ 1964-1965 (Summary of VC Losses in the Year of the Snake, 1964-1965)

A Vietnamese-language poster (code SP-929) tallies 'Viet Cong losses' for the Year of the Snake: nearly 18,000 weapons captured, more than 11,000 returnees and nearly 34,000 Viet Cong killed, with a bar chart comparing 1965 to 1964. Photographs show a captured-weapons display, bodies in a muddy trench and a group of ralliers outside a Chieu Hoi centre, and the slogan reads 'The day of total victory is not far!' The tell is a statistical claim presented as a trend, with the figures unsourced on the sheet.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
TỔNG KẾT THIỆT HẠI VIỆT CỘNG
trong năm ẤT TỴ 1964-1965

Gần 18 ngàn vũ khí đủ loại đã bị quân ta tịch thu.

Hơn 11.000 người đã trở về chính nghĩa Quốc Gia.

Gần 34 ngàn Việt Cộng đã bị giết.

SO SÁNH VỚI NĂM 1964

35.000
30.000
25.000
20.000
15.000
10.000
5.000

1964 1965 NHÂN MẠNG
1964 1965 VŨ KHÍ
1964 1965 QUI CHÁNH

[sign in photograph, partly legible: TY CHIÊU HỒI]

NGÀY TOÀN THẮNG KHÔNG CÒN XA!

SP-929
```

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

```
SUMMARY OF VIET CONG LOSSES
in the year of the Snake (Ất Tỵ) 1964-1965

Nearly 18 thousand weapons of all kinds were seized by our army.

More than 11,000 people have returned to the National cause.

Nearly 34 thousand Viet Cong were killed.

COMPARED WITH 1964

35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000

1964 1965 CASUALTIES [lit. human lives]
1964 1965 WEAPONS
1964 1965 RALLIERS [Qui Chánh]

[sign in photograph, partly legible: CHIEU HOI OFFICE]

THE DAY OF TOTAL VICTORY IS NOT FAR!

SP-929
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering of the poster's Vietnamese text, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. 'Nhân mạng' is rendered 'casualties' for the chart axis; literally 'human lives'.

[← Muốn giữ gìn sức khoẻ phải rửa sạch (In Order to Maintain Health You Should Wash These Thoroughly)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/to-keep-health-wash-thoroughly-1965/) [Training and Education for Montagnard Refugees From Communism →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/training-education-montagnard-refugees-1965-1969/)

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