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title: Kiếp trâu ngựa của những tín-đồ Cơ-đốc tại Nga (The fate of beasts of burden of Christian believers in Russia) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Asia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-are-no-longer-human-beings-vietnamese-1951/
description: A purple-and-yellow poster reprinting a letter said to be from a German nun held with 1,500 others in a labour camp in Russia. (7 of 7)
section: Collection
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# Kiếp trâu ngựa của những tín-đồ Cơ-đốc tại Nga (The fate of beasts of burden of Christian believers in Russia) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Asia)

A purple-and-yellow poster reprinting a letter said to be from a German nun held with 1,500 others in a labour camp in Russia, ringed by drawings of guards whipping and beating nuns and of a bridge over the Dnieper. It asks readers to pray for the nuns. The tell is testimonial: an anonymous letter is vouched for only by the publications that carried it, with no checkable names or dates.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
" KIẾP TRÂU NGỰA CỦA NHỮNG TÍN-ĐỒ CƠ-ĐỐC TẠI NGA "

BỨC THƠ CỦA MỘT BÀ PHƯỚC Ở NGA

Kính gửi thầy mẹ yêu quí,

Bây giờ con mới có dịp viết thư để thầy mẹ hay là con vẫn còn sống. Con cũng không dám chắc thầy mẹ đã nhận được lá thư này. Đã từ lâu con và các chị em đồng đạo bị đưa sang nước Nga này. [...]

Cả thế-giới đều biết rõ những nỗi thống-khổ của một ngàn năm trăm bà phước bị đầy-ải trong một trại-giam ở bên Nga, sau khi một bà phước người Đức trong số đó đã gửi trộm một bức thư về cho cha mẹ bà ở bên Đức. Đây là bản-dịch nguyên-văn bức thư của bà phước đó, kể lại những nỗi cay-đắng mà họ đã trải qua và tha-thiết yêu-cầu mọi người hãy cầu-nguyện cho họ.
```

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

```
"The Fate of Beasts of Burden of the Christian Believers in Russia" / A Letter of a Nun in Russia / Dear Father and Mother, Only now do I have the chance to write so that you know I am still alive. I also dare not be sure you have received this letter. It has been long since my fellow-believer sisters and I were sent to this Russia. [...] / The whole world knows the sufferings of fifteen hundred nuns exiled in a prison camp in Russia, after a German nun among them secretly sent a letter to her parents in Germany. This is the faithful translation of that nun's letter, recounting the bitter things they have undergone and earnestly asking everyone to pray for them.
```

Body text abridged at [...]; headline, subtitle, opening, explanatory box and imprint are given as printed. Translation is a literal best reading.

[← 世界最大的監獄 (The World's Largest Prison), U.S. map-and-newspaper-clipping poster (catalog title: Red "Bastille")](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/worlds-largest-prison-red-bastille-usia-poster-1951/) [An American Message to All Who Love Freedom (Burmese-language poster distributed in Burma) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/an-american-message-to-all-who-love-freedom-burmese-1951/)

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