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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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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