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title: Việt-Minh luôn-luôn kêu-gọi chúng ta noi gương Trung-Cộng (The Vietminh Are Against Religion)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vietminh-are-against-religion-1952/
description: 'Typographic poster in red and black Vietnamese under a blue band of four religious emblems: a seated Buddha, the Cao Dai eye in a triangle, a ''PGHH'' (Hoa…'
section: Collection
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# Việt-Minh luôn-luôn kêu-gọi chúng ta noi gương Trung-Cộng (The Vietminh Are Against Religion)

Typographic poster in red and black Vietnamese under a blue band of four religious emblems: a seated Buddha, the Cao Dai eye in a triangle, a 'PGHH' (Hoa Hao) badge and a crucifix. It says the Viet Minh urge 'us' to follow Communist China, where communists burn churches and kill priests to destroy religion, and calls for destroying communism to protect freedom and religion. The tell: four faiths' emblems are attached to the poster's 'we', and a stated Chinese act is attached to the Viet Minh.

- **Date:** October 2, 1952
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** U.S. Information Agency (USIA), Vietnamese-language poster in the 'Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia' series
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Truman Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=truman-administration)
- **Leader:** [Harry S. Truman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=harry-s-truman)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [Religion](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=religion), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [First Indochina War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=first-indochina-war)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [U.S. National Archives (RG 306, U.S. Information Agency, NAID 5730133), via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Vietminh_Are_Against_Religion_-_NARA_-_5730133.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (U.S. government work, USIA record; Commons tags PD-USGov and CC-PD-Mark) U.S. Information Agency, 1952; National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 5730133, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[top band: four round emblems: a seated Buddha; an eye in a triangle; a badge lettered PGHH; a crucifix]

VIỆT-MINH LUÔN-LUÔN
KÊU-GỌI CHÚNG TA NOI
GƯƠNG TRUNG-CỘNG

Ở TRUNG-QUỐC CỘNG-SẢN
ĐỐT NHÀ THỜ VÀ GIẾT CỐ-
ĐẠO ĐỂ TIÊU-DIỆT TÔN-GIÁO

TỰ-DO TÍN-NGƯỠNG LÀ
MỘT ĐẶC-TÁNH CẦN YẾU
CHO MỘT XÃ-HỘI TỰ-DO

HÃY TIÊU-DIỆT CHỦ-NGHĨA
CỘNG-SẢN ĐỂ BẢO-VỆ
TỰ-DO VÀ TÔN-GIÁO.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[top band: four round emblems: a seated Buddha; an eye in a triangle; a badge lettered PGHH; a crucifix]

THE VIET MINH ALWAYS
URGE US TO FOLLOW
THE EXAMPLE OF COMMUNIST CHINA

IN CHINA THE COMMUNISTS
BURN CHURCHES AND KILL PRIESTS
TO DESTROY RELIGION

FREEDOM OF BELIEF IS
AN ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC
OF A FREE SOCIETY

DESTROY COMMUNISM
TO PROTECT
FREEDOM AND RELIGION.
```

Read from the 960 px image; the lettering is large and clear. 'Cố-đạo' is the Vietnamese word for a (Catholic) priest. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Les communistes pris en flagrant délit de mensonge (The Communists Caught in the Act of Lying)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communists-caught-lying-1952/) [建設馬來亞 / 破壞馬來亞 (Building Malaya / Destroying Malaya) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/building-and-destroying-malaya-1953/)

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- [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (1070 · Transfer, Card stacking)
- [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
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