Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side

Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by rudolfwinestock on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:15PM (#27284537)

To add to the above, as much as some people want to mock America's involvement in Vietnam, one must note that The Domino Theory (used to justify that involvement) came true.

Granted, the worst case scenario did not happen (Australia was spared communist takeover), but what actually happened was horrific, nonetheless. Laos and Cambodia fell to communism, in part thanks to communist forces from Vietnam.

And anyone who pulls the line of "independence from foreign domination" should have a talk with the grey hairs in your local Vietnamese neighborhood, here, in the States. They'll let you know how much people in South Vietnam wanted nothing to do with the tyrannical regime in the North.

Furthermore, one cannot disparage South Vietnam as a puppet regime without also disparaging South Korea, Taiwan, or West Germany for that matter.

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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by nguyenkien on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:22PM (#27284592)

Tell your neighbors come and talk with people from Mỹ Lai

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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by ipaddr on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:51PM (#27284787)

There was a class divide with the educated in the south going through a french system asking for western support. I could see how different neighbourhoods would have different opinions. The richer more middle class or higher the more you wanted things to stay the same.

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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by rudolfwinestock on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:22PM (#27285020)

Those responsible for what happened there received due process of law and were punished.

Communists, on the other hand, either suppress or celebrate their own atrocities.

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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by thereare5lights on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:26PM (#27285041)

> Those responsible for what happened there received due process of law and were punished.

LOL The ONLY person that received ANY punishment was Calley, and he was sentenced to life only to serve three years of house arrest.

"were punished" is a joke.

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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by trasz on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:51AM (#27287615)

Erm, that’s a lie. US is pretty good at protecting its war criminals, and it was quite visible in this case, where only a single one of the perpetrators has been punished, and the punishment was hilariously low (iirc just a few years of prison).

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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by thereare5lights on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:47PM (#27284755)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%B9_Lai_massacre

That's just one of them that we have evidence of. We know this was not a one off event.

Anyone who pulls the line of "Domino Theory" and "America was just fighting communism" must note all the war crimes that the US committed and was never held responsible for.

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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by temp8964 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:17PM (#27284974)

That part is true, but communists killed millions more. There is no perfect history to love, sad ?

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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by thereare5lights on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:28PM (#27285052)

The justification of America's involvement and the lionization of it does not rest upon "but communists killed millions more."

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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side by temp8964 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:40PM (#27285137)

OK. So just let the communists kill millions more, or just call God to send the perfect army.

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