Given how reactionaries behave here, how they lie about the poor, lie about queer people, lie about their international enemies as easily as breathing, why would anyone believe their claims about what happened to them in a communist country?
Vietnamese liberals are more annoying than Chinese liberals. I remember someone from Vietnam telling me about Fullbright University and how they showed students there a video on American soldiers during the Vietnam war and the liberals were actually in tears because they “had no idea how hard it was for American soldiers.”
The more I learn about the Vietnam War, the less and less sympathy I have for its veterans. I'm at the point of "They weren't actually spat on, but they should have been. Probably flayed."
Unless you deserted, mutinied, or defected, you're on par with the Wehrmacht at best and more likely to have been the SS at worst.
meanwhile they slipped in "oh by the way you don't need to see a rifle when you're tallying up your score!" which is just stepping diagonally into regular old genocide
It really was and I'm also thinking it's why so many Vietnam vets had PTSD. The nazis had the same problem when they were carrying out massacres before they built industrial murder camps.
I have plenty of sympathy for Vietnam War veterans.
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The ones who fought against the imperialist pigs, that is.
How the IOF is conducting itself in Gaza is reasonable approximation for how the US military conducted itself in Vietnam.
I extend this to all USAmerican soldiers, past and present
Not a fucking lick. Not one.
They could've gone to Mexico or Canada. They could've dusted their TI at bootcamp FTX. They could've blown their CO away at the front. They could've just defected and tried to blend into Vietnamese culture. Instead, they chose to murder people they'd never met at the behest of people they'd never have a paygrade to stand in the same room as.
There's always a choice. They chose wrong. I have no sympathy.
Was that a person using the Nuremberg defense for Americans in Vietnam? Lmao
"Poor and vulnerable soldiers" horseshit. Muhammad Ali literally stood on his square and said "ain't no vietnamese man ever called me n/" and paid the social price for it; but I'm supposed to feel sorry for peckerwoods who "just followed orders"? Fuck outta here man
Showing footage of the eastern front to the class to talk about how hard it must have been for the nazis to do all that walking
I would simply learn that communism was good after a very short time in the camp so I got released faster, but I guess I'm built different.
And what was your great uncle's occupation before being put into that camp, hmm? I have the feeling he wasn't a plumber.
And their uncle deserved it, it clearly didn't work.
A few years ago, there was a video that went viral of a Cuban gusano (in a MAGA hat no less) who pulled up a picture on her phone of her dear grandpa who the evil communists murdered. He was just a respected police officer, according to her.
Turns out, because she showed the picture of him, people were able to identify who this “dear grandpa” was. He was actually known to history. He was one of Batista’s henchmen who tortured and murdered quite a few people. As many at the time pointed out, that guy absolutely got what he deserved and executing him was cool and good.
Reminds me of that lady who talked at the DNC about her and her family "fleeing communism", but her father was part of the Nicaraguan death squads or something?
Oh fuck I remember that lol...and he wasn't any average henchman, either. He was like Batista's number one, go-to torture guy. I wanna say it was either Colonel Fermin Cowley Gallegos or Colonel Jesús Sosa Blanco.
Maybe it's because my family are all absolute pieces of shit human beings who would lie about everything, but I really don't get why these people take "my grandfather told me" as proof it must be true. Maybe your grandfather is a lying sack of shit who is mad the communists took away his slaves?
Maybe your grandfather is a lying sack of shit who is mad the communists took away his slaves?
And in one sentence, you just described every Cuban boomer expat I've ever known.
So she was told communism was bad by bad people who supported slavery?
