Truong My Lan started life as a market trader. Now, she has been convicted of stealing billions.
  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    They were not fighting against capitalism, they were fighting for independence. They didn’t care who supported them, they just needed support. Because France was in the West, and had Western support, the only external support they could easily find was communist. So they put on the Communist hat, but they really cared about independence

    The history is fascinating

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh

    the Việt Minh established itself as the only organized anti-French and anti-Japanese resistance group.[6] The Việt Minh initially formed to seek independence for Vietnam from the French Empire. The United States supported France. When the Japanese occupation began, the Việt Minh opposed Japan with support from the United States and the Republic of China. After World War II, the Việt Minh opposed the re-occupation of Vietnam by France, resulting in the Indochina War, and later opposed South Vietnam and the United States in the Vietnam War.

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      They were not fighting against capitalism, they were fighting for independence.

      Both North Vietnam and South Vietnam gained their independence in 1954. So whatever they were fighting for in the 1960’s, it was definitely not “independence”.

      The history is fascinating

      Yeah, but I was talking about the Vietnam War against north and south of the 1960’s. Not the separate colonial war against France in the 1950’s.

        • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          That isn’t how they saw the situation

          “They” == North Vietnamese propaganda. The actual facts are that colonialism ended 10 full years before the US sent troops to protect South Vietnam. This was a civil war, not a colonial war. It doesn’t matter what North Vietnamese propaganda wants you to think. It matters what reality is. If all your information is coming from youtube you are definitely getting your information from the wrong sources.

          Colonial powers drawing lines on maps has famously been a way to make people happy with outcomes

          Doesn’t apply at all here. The only ‘border’ they were fighting over was the border between North and South Vietnam. And that border was created by North Vietnam, not by any colonialists.

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m happy to read better references on the real political situation you can give me.