Collection of torture instruments used by French colonialists against revolutionary soldiers imprisoned in Vinh Prison

Collection of torture instruments used by the French colonialists on revolutionary soldiers imprisoned in Vinh Prison is displayed in room 8 of the Nghe Tinh Soviet Museum. The collection includes 7 artifacts: 2 cowhide whips, 1 rope whip, 2 handcuffs, 1 baton, 1 leg shackle.

Handcuffs: use handcuffs on prisoners.

Cowhide whip, rope whip, rubber baton: used to hit the body, face, and head of prisoners. The rope whip has a nail attached at the end. Every time the enemy hits the prisoner, when the whip is lifted, the prisoner's flesh sticks to the skin in patches, and blood flows onto the floor.

Leg shackles: used in cells where political prisoners with serious crimes are detained, one person per cell, legs are clamped in wooden shackles fixed to the bed board or floor.

Political prisoners in Vinh prison also had to endure many other forms of torture such as: forcing prisoners to go shirtless, being trampled with spiked shoes, forcing prisoners to sit on red-hot copper trays, or stripping female prisoners' clothes and forcing them to stand on an anthill in the sun...

Political prisoners in Vinh prison always know that the path to national liberation is thorny, full of imprisonment and sacrifice, but they are still ready to accept it with a strong belief in the day of victory of the revolution. Although shackled, chained, brutally tortured, tormented by hunger, cold and disease, the communist soldiers in Vinh prison are always optimistic, trusting, united, loving and helping each other to fight against the harsh prison regime.

This is one of the valuable collections, which is evidence recording the crimes of imperialism and feudalism; at the same time helping the younger generation understand more deeply about a period of revolutionary struggle of our ancestors who were brave and steadfast in the struggle for independence and freedom for the nation.