tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post3324250621285414616..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: Kiselyov on Neo-Soviet Education PolicyLa Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-1928678131533202772007-06-30T07:31:00.000-04:002007-06-30T07:31:00.000-04:00This post is not a condemnation of America's actio...This post is not a condemnation of America's actions in Vietnam, it's just an admission that America made some mistakes there. The point is to compare America's actions with those of Russia and to find Russia wanting -- the author is a famous Russian political analyst, by the way, not La Russophobe.La Russophobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-85492974671651902762007-06-30T07:19:00.000-04:002007-06-30T07:19:00.000-04:00As a Vietnamese American and fellow sufferer from ...As a Vietnamese American and fellow sufferer from the communist ideology I am shocked to hear your condemnation of Vietnam. You can make an argument that tactics used in Vietnam were sometimes wrong. Agent Orange for example, but it doesn't hid the overall picture. You had a communist government supported by other communist government (your Russia and China) imposing a system of foreign ideology like communism on a relatively democratic south Vietnam. <BR/><BR/>After 1973 Congress effectively cut off all funding for South Vietnam, sealing our fate. By the time 1974 rolled over, the South Vietnamese military was teethless b/c of US negligence, while China and the Soviets always replaced the North's military losses. As a result of losing the war, my uncle was sent into a concentration camp because he was a soldier and almost died, his fellow soldiers and most of middle to upper classes weren't so lucky. You don't understand the shame of the Vietnamese peoples story of ignorant Northerners coming in and telling us to do the most ignorant shit and fucking us over. Hearing foreigners telling Vietnam is wrong sting us b/c one there weren't there and two we lost more than anybody else in that conflict. Before 1975 the South was more prosperous and had a better living standard, 20 years later things haven't gotten better but worst. What did communism bring to Vietnam after 1975?<BR/><BR/>America can repent its sometimes vicious tactics in Vietnam. But it shouldn't repent its intentions, which was preserve relatively free country from failing to outside pressures of communism. I hope your moral lecturing of the evils of Communism is not selective for only your country. If it is, I am very disappointed. <BR/><BR/>List of Accomplishment b/c of Unification via Vietnamese Communism<BR/><BR/><BR/>Starvation b/c of crop failure b/c of socialism<BR/>Concentration camps<BR/>Whole generation of boat people and the resulting 100,000 people lost or killed oversees<BR/>War with China<BR/>War with Cambodia<BR/>Destruction of organized religion in Vietnam<BR/>Living Standards that suck worse than the Soviets<BR/>Zero press freedomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com