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
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'.
- Date
- 1972
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Psychological Warfare Department (Cục Tâm-lý-chiến), Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Medium
- Books and pamphlets
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Thieu Government
- Leader
- Nguyen van Thieu
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Migration
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Name-callingCard stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons: PD-South VietnamGov, PD-Layout)
Psychological Warfare Department (Cục Tâm-lý-chiến), Republic of Vietnam, 1972; scan from Google Books (digitized by Google) via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
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.
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.
