Saturday Radical Culture: Vietnamese Fight Back

In collecting Vietnamese political posters of the Vietnam War period, Just Seeds reminds everyone how the idea of resisting powerful forces is powerful for the oppressed. “Outside of Ho Chi Minh, the most replicated visual trope in Vietnamese posters from the War era is the downing of US airplanes and helicopters. Poster after poster show aircraft shot down in flames. When looked at together (see the dozen plus examples below!), it becomes quite an impressive collection of graphic interpretations, and shows how powerful this idea, knocking the militarily more advanced Americans out the sky, was to the mythology of the Vietnamese war effort.”

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