The 'victory' was no real victory for the 1 million civilian (including communists) disillusioned by what transpired from a ruthless communist government that terrorised the newly unified nation. Thousands of southerners accused of doing business or serving in the southern army were herded into 'reeducation camps' for countless years where most would die. A nation united in communism, the workers party, that saw land taken over by the State. The consquence of which was to see millions to starve to death. The Vietnames have nothing the cellebrate from takeover by the socialist northern thugs that stripped bare all the lavish hotel fitting in the south after that tank broke dwon the Independance Palace gates. Vietnam only came out of its quagmire on the fall of the Berlin wall. Only when the commo government liberalised its dogma and its hold on the populace in 1990 did the country progress to where it is today. From 1975 to 1989 the country can backwards. Don't pamper to their BS.

By Richard Adams on Aug 11, 2010 at 1:38 am