user47602 wrote:
yes... it was a war of ideology... American leadership never forgot Khrushchev's idle threat, "we will bury you!". We had to fight c*******m wherever it reared its ugly head, even if we had to support f*****t dictators....
If you will notice, after we left, Vietnam survived the genocidal monsters in the end. LOL
Hello User, I just had to respond to this one because this is an extremely little known area of World History. I'm no expert, but I have read a little about it. After the North Vietnamese took over the country in 1975. the wheels of C*******t secrecy went into high gear. All Western journalists were expelled from the country and virtually the only news about Vietnam came from escapees to the West. In the first few months after the fall of Saigon, while Westerners were still escaping, the C*******ts managed a rather orderly takeover to dispel the fear that there would be a "bloodbath." Many, if not most people still think it never happened to this today.
However, shortly after the expulsion of Westerners, the summary executions started and a couple million people were put into "re-education camps." Typical of insulated C*******t Regimes, such as Russia and China, the k*****g took place on a local level, out of the public eye, completely invisible to the Western World. We were still sorting out what happened in the Russian Gulags 50 - 70 years after they were in operation. Historians keep raising the death toll from Chinese starvation and executions higher all the time, 50 years after the death of Chairman Mao.
Information about the internal workings of Vietnam after 1975 is very difficult to come by. Just try an internet search. I found a few links that talk about the number of k*****gs. Many of the deaths were simply due to the deplorable conditions in "re-education camps." An estimated quarter-million died just trying to flee the country. In the past I have heard estimates from as little as 50,000 Vietnamese k**led by their government, up to more than one million k**led.
This writer puts the total death toll from C*******ts in Indochina after the fall of Vietnam at 7.5 million. That is separated into, Cambodia - 3-4 million, Vietnam - 2.5 million, and Laos - 1.5 million. Cambodia is the most well known of these Genocides (or Demicide - the k*****g by a government of its own people), because somebody made a movie about it, and because the Cambodian C*******ts were so meticulous about keeping good records.
http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/dickeymf/_Years_after_Fall_of_Saigon,_75_Million_Murdered.shtml
This article on Vietnamese executions is long so I will get right to the number. She estimates that 65,000 of the deaths were outright political executions, but she adds that this is probably a low estimate.
http://jim.com/repression.htmThis last article from the U.K. Guardian is more anecdotal, written by a guy who was there during the Fall of Saigon, but relates stories that happened much later.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3063381/Saigon-Apocalypse-40-years-ago-week-COLIN-SMITH-witnessed-fall-Saigon-says-came-ways-horrifying-war-itself.html