--- title: 'Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet text page: ''The final battle is being concluded'')' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-final-battle-text-1972/ description: 'A bilingual text page from the 1972 booklet predicts the end of the offensive: the communists ''are being defeated'', ''more than half'' of North Vietnam''s…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet text page: 'The final battle is being concluded')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-final-battle-text-1972.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-final-battle-text-1972.jpg) # Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet text page: 'The final battle is being concluded') A bilingual text page from the 1972 booklet predicts the end of the offensive: the communists 'are being defeated', 'more than half' of North Vietnam's troops are 'consumed', and General Võ Nguyên Giáp's reputation 'is being buried'. It closes on the 'ever gallant' South Vietnamese forces 'annihilating the Communists'. The tell is a claimed outcome stated as fact, with no figures or sources. ## Text on the object Original (Multiple) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Phía cộng-sản, những cố gắng cuối cùng của chúng đã bị bẻ gãy. Chúng đã bốc cháy trong cuộc thử lửa do chúng gây nên. Trận đánh chót đang trên đà kết liễu. Già nửa khả năng của Bắc-Việt đang bị thiêu rụi tại cả ba mặt trận giới tuyến, Bình-Long và Tam Biên. Cộng-sản không thể còn khả năng mở một cuộc tấn công nào khác sau lần thất trận 1972 này. Những sư đoàn tinh nhuệ cộng-sản sẽ tan rã và bị xóa tên trong cuộc thử lửa 1972. Hàng triệu thanh niên vô tội Bắc-Việt bị thiêu sống trong cuộc thử lửa 1972. Tên tuổi nhà quân sự số 1 của miền Bắc Võ Nguyên Giáp đang mai một trong cuộc thử lửa 1972. Quân và dân Việt-Nam Cộng-Hòa ngàn năm anh dũng đã bắt đầu thắng cuộc thử lửa 1972, diệt tan giặc cộng để viết một trang sử mới. The Communists are being defeated in their last efforts. The final battle is being concluded. More than half of North-Vietnam's troops were consumed at the demilitarized zone, Binh-Long and Tri-Border fronts. The Communists have no capability to launch another offensive after their heavy defeat in 1972. Elite communist Divisions will be dismantled in this 1972 challenge of fire. Millions of innocent North Vietnamese youths are being led into death this year. The one-time reputation of North-Vietnam's number one military leader, Vo-Nguyen-Giap, is being buried in this ordeal. The ever gallant People and Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam are winning the war and annihilating the Communists to write a new and bright page of History. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` On the communist side, their last efforts have been broken. They have caught fire in the trial by fire they themselves caused. The final battle is racing toward its end. Half or more of North Vietnam's capability is being burned away on all three fronts, the demarcation line, Binh Long and the Three Borders. The communists can no longer have the capability to launch any other attack after this 1972 defeat. The communists' elite divisions will disintegrate and be struck off the roll in the 1972 trial by fire. Millions of innocent North Vietnamese youths are being burned alive in the 1972 trial by fire. The name of the North's number one military man, Vo Nguyen Giap, is fading away in the 1972 trial by fire. The armed forces and people of the Republic of Vietnam, valiant for a thousand years, have begun to win the 1972 trial by fire, to wipe out the communist enemy and write a new page of history. [The English column printed on the right of the page is the booklet's own English version.] ``` Vietnamese in the left column, English in the right, as printed; some Vietnamese words are italicised on the page. A printer's ornament follows the text. The translation of the Vietnamese column is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. 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