--- title: Vinh Binh Chieu Hoi Center Completed url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vinh-binh-chieu-hoi-center-completed-1965-1969/ description: A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer sheet under an orange headline announces the completion of the Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) centre in Vinh Binh province. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Vinh Binh Chieu Hoi Center Completed [![Vinh Binh Chieu Hoi Center Completed, 1965 US poster: A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer sheet under an orange headline](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vinh-binh-chieu-hoi-center-completed-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vinh-binh-chieu-hoi-center-completed-1965-1969.jpg) # Vinh Binh Chieu Hoi Center Completed A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer sheet under an orange headline announces the completion of the Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) centre in Vinh Binh province, with three photographs: the centre's entrance, an official party cutting a ribbon, and the same party inspecting captured Viet Cong weapons and the ralliers' bunks. The text says the centre is always ready to receive those who 'went astray' and let them rejoin their families for 'a new life'. The tell is selection: only the facility, officials and welcome are shown, and nothing of conditions inside or the experience of those who rallied. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese (with parallel Khmer text)) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` TRUNG TÂM CHIÊU HỒI VĨNH BÌNH VỪA MỚI HOÀN THÀNH [Khmer-script headline, not transcribed] TỈNH VĨNH-BÌNH TRUNG-TÂM CHIÊU-HỒI Trung tâm Chiêu Hồi tỉnh Vĩnh Bình lúc nào cũng sẵn sàng tiếp đón những người đã lầm đường lạc lối, trở về với chính nghĩa quốc gia, xum họp với gia đình để lập lại một đời sống mới. [Khmer-script caption, not transcribed] Ông Thứ Ủy Chiêu Hồi và phái-đoàn đang cắt băng khánh-thành Trung-Tâm Chiêu-Hồi tỉnh Vĩnh-Bình. [Khmer-script caption, not transcribed] Ông Thứ Ủy Chiêu Hồi và phái-đoàn lần lượt đến quan sát hội-trường, vũ-khí tịch thu của Việt Cộng và phòng ngủ của nam hồi-chánh-viên. [Khmer-script caption, not transcribed] KỶ-LUẬT TRẠ[partly cropped sign] SP-1584 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` CHIEU HOI CENTER OF VINH BINH JUST COMPLETED VINH BINH PROVINCE CHIEU HOI CENTER The Chieu Hoi Center of Vinh Binh province is always ready to receive those who have gone astray, returned to the national cause, and be reunited with their families to build a new life. The Chieu Hoi Deputy Minister and delegation cutting the ribbon to inaugurate the Chieu Hoi Center of Vinh-Binh province. The Chieu Hoi Deputy Minister and delegation in turn visit the assembly hall, the weapons confiscated from the Viet Cong, and the sleeping quarters of the male ralliers. DISCIPLINE TRA[partly cropped sign] SP-1584 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; Vietnamese diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. The Khmer text is not transcribed or translated. [← Vietcong Rocket Saigon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vietcong-rocket-saigon-1965-1969/) [Hoạt động thân dân của đoàn võ trang tuyên truyền Vĩnh-Long (The Vinh Long Armed Propaganda Team Works With People) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vinh-long-armed-propaganda-team-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [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. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.