Not to mention, the US further punished Vietnam for winning through sanctions which made reconstruction significantly harder. There was no one to pay the country reparations and the aid they did receive was not enough to suddenly transition to a non-bombed, non-agent orange, non-massacred country. My parents lived as peasants through the war and famine and barely had any food for themselves or families - even the so called rich people at this time were barely above peasants, unless you were urban and had western connections. And the almighty, freedom loving Americans didn't lift a finger to help anyone. I don't care if my parents' anti communism is valid or not. Every American soldier, diplomat, intelligence agent, and their European and Asian stooges who was in Vietnam during the war deserves PTSD and suicide.