--- title: 'Kẻ thù số một của nhân loại (Humanity''s number-one enemy) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #3)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viet-poster-3-stalin-globe-vietnamese-1951/ description: A Vietnamese caricature poster. An orange-faced, fanged figure with 'Stalin' written on his sleeve hugs a globe. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Kẻ thù số một của nhân loại (Humanity's number-one enemy) [![Kẻ thù số một của nhân loại (Humanity's number-one enemy), 1951 US poster: A Vietnamese caricature poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/viet-poster-3-stalin-globe-vietnamese-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/viet-poster-3-stalin-globe-vietnamese-1951.jpg) # Kẻ thù số một của nhân loại (Humanity's number-one enemy) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #3) A Vietnamese caricature poster. An orange-faced, fanged figure with 'Stalin' written on his sleeve hugs a globe, his claws digging in and blood running down it. The headline calls him humanity's number-one enemy, and a four-line verse says he means to communise the five continents and seize the globe, leaving broken bodies and ruined homes. The tell is name-calling through a monstrous caricature of a named leader, with the verse supplying fear-appeal. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` KẺ THÙ SỐ MỘT CỦA NHÂN LOẠI. Xít-ta-lin [written on sleeve] Lòng toan cộng-sản-hóa năm châu, Họ Xít quyết thâu quả địa cầu; Vứt bên vỡ đầu xương máu đổ, Nhà tan của nát, chúng dân sầu. [signature: Ngọc Ân] [typed archival label: VIET POSTER #3] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` HUMANITY'S NUMBER-ONE ENEMY. Stalin [written on sleeve] Intending to communise the five continents, The Stalin clan is resolved to seize the whole globe; [Heads smashed, bones and blood spilled,] Homes ruined, property destroyed, the people grieve. ``` Machine translation, not verified by a fluent reader; the third verse line is uncertain and shown in brackets. The verse is read in four lines as printed. [← Toàn dân tiêu-diệt C-S Việt-Minh (The whole people: annihilate the Viet Minh communists) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #5)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/toan-dan-tieu-diet-viet-minh-vietnamese-1951/) [Kẻ mưu phá hại hòa-bình thế-giới (The plotter who destroys world peace) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #4) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viet-poster-4-stalin-kills-dove-vietnamese-1951/) ## More propaganda examples that use 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). 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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)