--- title: 'Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: elderly refugee and children, ''the communists'' yoke'')' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-refugees-yoke-caption-1972/ description: A booklet page shows an elderly woman with an infant lying beside her, and a smaller photograph of children beside bundles of belongings. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Photographs of an elderly woman with an infant and of children with bundled belongings in a displacement setting, with a caption naming the opposing side's rule a 'yoke'. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: elderly refugee and children, 'the communists' yoke')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-refugees-yoke-caption-1972.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-refugees-yoke-caption-1972.jpg) # Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: elderly refugee and children, 'the communists' yoke') A booklet page shows an elderly woman with an infant lying beside her, and a smaller photograph of children beside bundles of belongings. The Vietnamese and English caption says 'even old men resolutely abandon their hamlets and villages to avoid living under the communists' yoke'. The tell is a caption that assigns a political motive to displaced people and calls the opposing side's rule a 'yoke'. ## Text on the object Original (Multiple) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Những cụ già mom mém, đầu tóc bạc phơ, tuổi đã gần đất xa trời nhưng cũng quyết dời bỏ xóm làng vì không thể sống chung với cộng-sản dù một ngày, một giờ một phút. Even old men resolutely abandon their hamlets and villages to avoid living under the communists' yoke. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Elderly people, toothless, hair white as snow, their age already near the grave, yet also resolved to leave their hamlets because they cannot live together with the communists for even a day, an hour or a minute. [The English sentence printed beneath is the booklet's own English version.] ``` Vietnamese caption above the English caption, both in the page's upper left. The translation of the Vietnamese caption is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. [← Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet text page: 'The final battle is being concluded')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-final-battle-text-1972/) [Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: photograph of wrecked buildings with caption) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-tet-damage-photo-1972/) ## Using the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)