The Myth of "a Bunch of Simple Farmers" in the Vietnam War

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I ve been reading the book "The centurians" and "The pretorians", it amuse me how the racist author can be so aware that the vietnamese and algerians had beat them in war, while also being a massive ignorant of the humanity of the vietnamese people. The whole novel refuse to understand why people could engage in a opressive system that dehumanize them and only see them as inferiors.
THe vietnamese deserve the peace they got and the equality that was the true reason for fighting the imperialists. Ignoring their ability to fight is absurd and childish

I like this video because it shows the effort it took to maintain the Vietnamese revolution and to show us westerners the stomach it takes not only to take hold of the keys of power but to secure them also nice cowboy drip luna

Bah. Even our militia can rape these US troop like hot knife through butter.

Perhaps you should do a video about "ngụ binh ư nông" strategy that many powerful Vietnam Dynasties implemented to grow a powerful army without wasting much resource. ( Which explain why the PAVN also participate in the economy of the nation)

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During the Vietnam War the best way to avoid going to Vietnam was to volunteer before you got drafted and get stationed in Europe or do a desk job stateside like my grandfather did

excelente vídeo, parabéns aos envolvidos!👏👏

I love this video. Thank you for continuing to debunk the lies about the American invasion of Vietnam I grew up with in the United States. I just visited the Hanoi Military museum one week ago and highly recommend it to anyone eho wants to learn more!

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You should make a video describing Ho Chi Minh. He is barely known in the West and I'm curious about his story

Hey Luna, can you talk about the CPC in any new videos or dispel anti communist propaganda? Thanks :3

The Vietnamese were not just some farmers. They had been fighting one invader to another for hundreds of years. The Chinese, French, Japanese, Americans, and Australians. They are a tough fighting fighting force to be reconned with. To the Vietnamese, Americans were this weeks enemy. Glad this video puts this myth to rest.

Thank you, this was very interesting. Wikipedia still uses Viet Cong I'm afraid.

I am a Vietnamese American born in the US. In school I was I was taught that the north and south Vietnam was 2 separate sides.From my Dad he would tell me stories about running away from Vietnam and talk about how he hates communists. I remember learning about how buddhist burning themselves to protest the capitalist government of South Vietnam, but my dad says it’s false because he read it from some newspapers from a different source that he claims is more trustworthy. I also remember stories about my dad complaining about the communist steeling his mom land and that he could of been rich. My Mom born in the early 70s had a poor background like everyone else in Vietnam at the time, although I don’t really here her view of the Vietnamese government no where near as much as my dad she share similar political views.

Americans fighting in Vietnam betrayed their own history. The USA was founded as a country supposedly shrugging off the yoke of European colonial occupation. They should've been helping the Viet Minh to do the same, but the preservation of capitalism was more important. Not the first time the USA has failed to live up to its own ideals thanks to capital.

I got a better education on Vietnam from watching Forrest Gump than I did school, is what I realized from this video.

Armchair Historian ra video mới về kháng chiến chống Mỹ rồi đó, react đi chị =))

Luna, have you seen the new video from the Armchair Historian on the Vietnam War? It's American chauvinism to its core and I'd love to see your response.

VC were made up of teenagers and wore civilian clothes. And they kicked ass!

Even though the meme is an ignorant oversimplification, I think the sentiment is definitely pro-Vietnam and anti-American military-- it is a complement for a country to defeat the largest and wealthiest armed forces in the world. Great video.

The working class and suppressed people are just a sacrifice for the bourgeoisie class greedy interests , what a true meaning of human rights :)

As a new communist and someone who recently learner of your channel I really love your videos and have been binge watching them recently. I have learnt so much of what I was taught have been half truths or outright lies.

Vietnam is now on my visiting list and it seems like an amazing place.

Great video! Vietnamese are an example for all anti colonial forces

Yeah, deff not just rice farmers. Vietnam shot down enough US jets in dog fights that our entire training regime was scrapped and redone. Top Gun was the result of that effort because our pilots didn't know how to dog fight. We even turned it into 2 movies. XD Though, Vietnam is mentioned in passing only.

Vietnam's culture has saved the nation time and time again as a matter of fact. Respect to the Vietnamese!

Very, very informative and revealing. F*ck US imperialism.

In a nutshell: American so-called "Heroic movies" were nothing but a bunch of bullsh*t and that image of Vietnamese people of peasants and farmers only was a distortion from reality.Anyway, GI's were defeated and Vietnam was reunified.

Thanks!

Once I had a discussion with a guy (I'm Brazilian by the way, so as he is) about that I said just that, the whole Vietnam forces were extremely organized, well lead and well prepared, the guy used the usual US propaganda talking about casualties, but US casualty figures were EXTREMELY lacking, when convenient they use civilian casualties as military casualties and vice-versa, they did pretty much the same about the Korea war, which they used the same tactic (which they still uses today), rapid invasion with a prolonged brutal occupation with local mob instated as puppet government, thing is, when they can achieve strategical gains or don't really know how to proceed they open free fire zones, which is the term used in Korea, everything that moves closer to their line is shot on sight, if they suspect of anything or anyone they shot on sight, and thoses killed (mostly civilians) are considered military casualties, after some massacres went public they changed that, in Iraq and Afghanistan they didn't disclose the casualty list, we know how bad it was because of third party investigators which were considered unreliabler, even tho the same method was used in Rhuanda and praised by the US government and the British admits they were reliable internally, also, the South Vietnamese army, which was pretty much the US cannon fodder, took the blunt of their casualties and those were quite high, the NVA and Viet Minh were a formidable force, years later that was again proven reality in the war against China.

Ước gì Có thuyết minh tiếng Việt vì mình thích kênh bạn lắm

I'm baffled by the US government and military force sending those extremely poor, disable, mentally ill young men into war like that. They were on purpose sent to DIE instead of the white, middle and upper class men who actually supported and benefited from the war. They were chosen to be killed on the other side of the planet because their country deemed then inferior, unworthy of LIVING, and able to be discarded.b That's LITERALLY EUGENICS. THATS LITERALLY GENOCIDE.

you make a great point about the north not invading the south! I draw a parallel to Korea and so I asked the westerners "how can Koreans invade Koreans?" I think the same would apply here!

Hello! You both make great vids. I have let go of a lot of yankee propaganda thanks to you.

i am afraid to say that the real lesson the us britain and france learned from their colonial wars was that they could not fight such wars with conscripts because of the negative political consequences at home. since then they have carried out their various neocolonial wars using professionals, as did the british in the nineteenth century, and there is no political fallout at home.

Do you know, before Vietnam war there is no B52 got shot down. You know why we shot down so many. I heard an old army officer explain on a fly the key is how we corporate artillery, missiles and air-force to dissect the sky.
We don't know how maybe through intelligence from both Soviet and Vietnam, and also from B52 reputation, Ho Chi Minh know the US would use B52 as their last resort, he even know where the US will use B52 to attack, it's Hanoi our Capital. "We had planned a B52 slaughter on Hanoi sky for several years ahead, since I was still studying artillery in Soviet" He said! God damnnnnn! Honestly I thought we are just simply badass. I mean that's just how people just proudly assumed about their country.
I think the key is Ho Chi Minh know the US army have to use all of their B52 as their last resort before the US army. Those B52 pilot was sent to their death, there is no chance for them.

Excellent video.

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Gringos are always a joke.

Are you wearing a vault suit in the beginning lol

Trong các binh lính từng chiến đâu ở Việt Nam (Mỹ , Korea, Trung Quốc, philippin, Thái Lan, Nhật , Pháp, Nga v.v..) ông tôi nói có lẽ họ e ngại nhất là gặp người Úc trong các cuộc đấu tay đôi 1-1. Tôn trọng nước Úc.

That woman lost her son because the oligarchs want to own money. They couldn't stand the thought of not having more money to horde. The US is and always has been run by ruthless criminals.

And yet were still highly untrained and ill disciplined and lost most engagements against the Americans despite being supplied with the latest weapons and equipment from the Eastern Bloc at the time. Their worst and most embarrassing moments being the Tet Offensive. Inb4 ''but murica still lost hur hur!!'' Yeah, we lost politically, not militarily. That's like some dorky kid saying he ''won'' a fight against his bully, when all the dorky kid did was tell on the bully and got him in trouble, not changing the fact he still got his face kicked in....another example - The Rhodesian Bush War, did Rhodesia eventually lose? Sure, but to say that ZAPU ''won'' the fight is highly misleading when the RLI literally won every single engagement against them and ZAPU's only ''victories'' were terrorist attacks against civilians. Also, Jeremy. Luna's not gonna bed you, stop trying too hard buddy.

I wasn't aware of the offensive nature of the word "viet cong". I will definitely always refer to them as "Viet Minh" from now on.

I wish there were a lot more movies, video games and other media portraying the actual heroic efforts of the Vietnamese instead of the tired old "american hero would win, if only it wasn't for the stupid politicians in Washington"-narrative.

A bit of a correction, every PAVN unit that moved South, would be redesignated as a NLF unit. So technically the NLF did all the fighting in the South, so I don't think you should mention the role of the PAVN in the South in this vid.

Wtf is this propaganda bs