--- title: '30·8·59: 30 tháng 8 mình ơi! (30 August, my dear!), National Assembly election flyer, 1959' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/walking-couple-election-flyer-1959/ description: Colour flyer in which a young couple in traditional dress walk hand in hand, each holding a ballot marked 'PHIẾU BẦU CỬ', over a tinted wall of repeated… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![30·8·59: 30 tháng 8 mình ơi! (30 August, my dear!), National Assembly election flyer, 1959](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/walking-couple-election-flyer-1959.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/walking-couple-election-flyer-1959.jpg) # 30·8·59: 30 tháng 8 mình ơi! (30 August, my dear!), National Assembly election flyer, 1959 Colour flyer in which a young couple in traditional dress walk hand in hand, each holding a ballot marked 'PHIẾU BẦU CỬ', over a tinted wall of repeated election slogans and the date '30·8·59'. Below is a four-line couplet in which husband and wife invite one another to vote. The tell: the state speaks in the intimate, teasing voice of an ordinary couple rather than an official's (plain-folks). ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 30 • 8 • 59 [on the two ballot papers: PHIẾU BẦU CỬ] [tinted background of repeated, partly cropped slogans, among them: ĐI BẦU CỬ, QUỐC HỘI LẬP PHÁP, 30-8; the rest [illegible]] 30 tháng 8 mình ơi! Đi bầu Quốc Hội mình thời rủ tôi 30 tháng 8 đến nơi! Đi bầu Quốc Hội thời tôi rủ mình ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` 30 • 8 • 59 [on the two ballot papers: ELECTION BALLOT] [tinted background of repeated, partly cropped slogans, among them: GO AND VOTE, LEGISLATIVE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, 30-8; the rest [illegible]] 30 August, my dear! To go and vote for the National Assembly, you invite me 30 August has arrived! To go and vote for the National Assembly, I invite you ``` Background slogans are tinted, overlapping and partly cropped, so only the fragments listed were read. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. [← Lá phiếu là viên đạn đồng (The Ballot Is a Bronze Bullet), National Assembly election flyer, 30 August 1959](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-phieu-la-vien-dan-dong-1959/) ["Ran an den Speck, jagt die Militaristen weg!": pledge boot for the 10th anniversary of the GDR, Neubrandenburg district →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-ran-an-den-speck-boot-neubrandenburg-1959/) ## Using the same techniques - [Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trois-tetes-sous-le-meme-bonnet-1789/) (France · 1789 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities) - ['Frohe Weihnachten und glückliches Neujahr' Austro-Hungarian Christmas postcard (1914)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/frohe-weihnachten-kriegsjahr-postcard-1914/) (Austria Hungary · 1914 · Plain folks) - ['Get a move on old man!' (Harry J. Weston, Sydney)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/australia-get-a-move-on-1915/) (Australia · 1915 · Plain folks) - [Бо війна війною (For War Is War), Sich Riflemen postcard series II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kurylas-bo-viina-viinoiu-sich-riflemen-postcard-1917/) (Austria Hungary · 1917 · Plain folks) - ["Mora Dravca vsahniti" plebiscite postcard no. 9 (The Drava Must Dry Up)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mora-dravca-vsahniti-plebiscite-postcard-1920/) (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes · 1920 · Plain folks) - [Город — мануфактуру, деревня — хлеб (Town: Manufactured Goods; Village: Bread)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kustodiev-city-manufactures-village-bread-1925/) (Soviet Union · 1925 · Plain folks) - [l'Unità, January 1928: 'Resistere alla seconda ondata di riduzione dei salari! SCIOPERATE!' (front page)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/l-unita-sciopero-salari-1928/) (Fascist Italy · Jan 1928 · Plain folks, Name-calling). Content note: Clandestine Communist front page whose strike slogan uses a vulgar word ('A salario di merda, lavoro di merda!'), shown as printed. - [Gandhi spins while addressing a crowd (1930)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gandhi-spinning-1930/) (British India · 1930 · Plain folks, Transfer)