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When I was little (2000s) the consensus seemed to be that Vietnam was a shitshow. It was sort of not talked about because it was considered an embarrassment for the west.

Lately on Boomer TV I've been seeing a lot of stories about gusano Vietnamese that "escaped" the "eeeevil communist north Vietnam".

Shits weird. It's one thing to paint a country like North Korea as evil because it's easy to make shit up about an isolated country. But people can watch like a billion travel shows that show communist Vietnam is a normal ass country. The idea that people fled from that becomes less harrowing when you see that it's a beautiful place that's just as free as any other country.

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[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's that episode of Hey Arnold where a Vietnamese character recounts his daughter I think getting on the last helicopter out of Saigon

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ok--WYeBdc

Heartwarming. It’s not really taking sides at all though, more of a generic antiwar stance

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