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
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (USIA), Vietnamese-language poster in the 'Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia' series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Religion, War and the military
- Event
- First Indochina War
- Techniques
- TransferFear 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, 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
[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.
[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.
