News, Vietnam Celebrates 35th Anniversary of War's End. (economy, USSR, Russia)

[JD59]

Communist Vietnam marked the 35th anniversary of the end of its war Friday with a dramatic re-enactment of the day North Vietnamese tanks smashed through the gates of the former Presidential Palace and ousted the U.S.-backed South Vietnam government.

The celebration took place as signs of the emerging market economy are everywhere in the city once known as Saigon and communist banners now compete with corporate logos.

Vietnam Celebrates 35th Anniversary of War's End - ABC News

[kevxu]

Beneath the celebrations the occasion must be an ambivalent one for many Vietnamese, at least the older ones. What with people with Communist sympathies, those with pro-government allegiance in the south, and the great mass of Buddhist-Confucian citizens in the south who were quite put upon by the government there must be a great deal of confusion about what it all meant.

[Grandstander]

But......but.....


Didn't the war end 37 years ago? I mean they gave Kissinger and Le Duc Tho the Nobel Peace Prize for ending it in 1973.

If the war didn't end until 1975, surely the Nobel committee would have asked for its prize back, wouldn't they?

[Boompa]

As Ngyuen Cao Ky said "time to get over it". While we lost Vietnam it was a giant step toward the collapse of world communism

[kevxu]

Originally Posted by Boompa

As Ngyuen Cao Ky said "time to get over it". While we lost Vietnam it was a giant step toward the collapse of world communism

I'm puzzled. In what way did it contribute?

[Pretzelogik]

Thanx for the memories.....LBJ!!

[marmac]

Was the re-enactment close to being factual?

Did they re-enact the crowd of South Vietnamese that were lined up down the street, up to the roof of a building and hanging on the last helicopter begging and screaming to be airlifted out?

[Boompa]

Originally Posted by kevxu

I'm puzzled. In what way did it contribute?

Brought the break between the USSR and China to a head.
Russia stopped sending supplies through China
China attacked Vietnam in 1975
The Soviets were left with a collapsed Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

[dazzleman]

Originally Posted by Boompa

Brought the break between the USSR and China to a head.
Russia stopped sending supplies through China
China attacked Vietnam in 1975
The Soviets were left with a collapsed Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

China attacked Vietnam in 1979, to punish Vietnam for its invasion of Cambodia.

[Yeledaf]

Present at the celebration, these scum............

The Associated Press: Vietnam War journalists reunite for anniversary