--- title: 'Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: photograph of wrecked buildings with caption)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-tet-damage-photo-1972/ description: A booklet page pairs a large photograph of collapsed, shell-damaged buildings with a Vietnamese and English caption. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: photograph of wrecked buildings with caption)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-tet-damage-photo-1972.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-tet-damage-photo-1972.jpg) # Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: photograph of wrecked buildings with caption) A booklet page pairs a large photograph of collapsed, shell-damaged buildings with a Vietnamese and English caption. The caption blames 'communist warmongers' for the Tet 1968 attacks and for shelling before the 29 March 1972 crossing, saying it caused 'death to innocent people'. The tell is the caption attaching a cause and a label to an undated photograph that shows no combatants. ## Text on the object Original (Multiple) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Tết Mậu-Thân, cộng-sản trắng trợn vi phạm lệnh hưu chiến tấn công các thị trấn V.N.C.H. gây bao nhiêu tang tóc cho đồng bào. Sau khi thất bại trước Q.L.V.N.C.H., tướng cộng sản đã biết thân phận ngưng gây hấn. Nhưng vốn là những kẻ hiếu chiến, ngày 29/3 vừa qua cộng-sản Bắc-Việt công khai mở một cuộc xâm lăng qua sông Bến Hải. Trước khi tràn qua vĩ tuyến cộng quân đã pháo kích hàng ngàn trái đạn mà nạn nhân vẫn là đồng bào vô tội và nhà cửa tài sản của họ. During the 1968 Lunar New Year (Tet), the Communists openly violated the truce and attacked cities and towns of the Republic of Vietnam, sowing death and desolation among the People. Despite heavy defeats inflicted by the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, communist warmongers, once again, openly crossed the Ben-Hai river to invade South Vietnam on March 29, 1972. Before crossing the Demilitarized zone, the communists fired thousands of shells causing death to innocent people and heavy property damage. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` At Tet Mau Than the communists brazenly violated the cease-fire order and attacked the towns of the Republic of Vietnam, causing great mourning for our compatriots. After being defeated by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam, the communist generals knew their station and stopped their provocations. But being by nature warmongers, on the 29th of March just past the North Vietnamese communists openly launched an invasion across the Ben Hai river. Before pouring across the parallel, the communist troops shelled with thousands of rounds, and the victims were again innocent compatriots and their houses and property. [The English paragraph printed beneath the Vietnamese is the booklet's own English version.] ``` Vietnamese paragraph above, English paragraph below, then the photograph without a separate caption. The translation of the Vietnamese paragraph is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. 'biết thân phận' is rendered as 'knew their station'. [← Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: elderly refugee and children, 'the communists' yoke')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-refugees-yoke-caption-1972/) [Trị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet text page: from Tet 1968 to the 1972 offensive) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tri-thien-vung-day-booklet-tet-to-1972-text-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)