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He/him. Marxist-Leninist + HCM thought, support a strong&independent Vietnam in solidarity with oppressed people of the world. AES 🇨🇳🇨🇺🇰🇵🇱🇦🇻🇳🇵🇸
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Thread: the Paracel and Sparty islands dispute and the complicated relationship of Vietnam and China. How to deal with these issues from a communist perspective, especially if you’re Vietnamese or Chinese.
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This man also flew Mig21 and shot down a B-52 (the only living pilot to do so). He is still alive in Hanoi, if you visit the city, try to see if you can meet him for a coffee. Legendary.
Did you know? 🔭 The first Asian cosmonaut is from #Vietnam! 🇻🇳 Phạm Tuân is the first Asian and the first Vietnamese in #space! ✨ Happy belated #InternationalDayofHumanSpaceFlight! 🚀 #YurisNight #VietAstro #HAAC
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Keenu is a materialist.
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A case of so-called “Vietnam watcher” who has no command of the languages and trying to stir twitter in order to blame us for supporting genocide - with a screenshot. Many sent me this photo so now I will debunk it so you understand how stupid this is 🧵
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“If you’re a communist and not supporting the national liberation of the colony, what kind of communist you are ?”. That’s why he left the French Socialist Party, formed the French CP and joined the 3rd International led by Lenin.
A young Ho Chi Minh speaking to the French Communist Party in Paris in 1920.
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The Communist Party of Vietnam leads the Vietnamese people to independence, freedom and happiness. From a war-torn and heavy devastated colonies, our life has improved significantly that many of us can easily have below breakfast for 2-3$.
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Uncle Ho wore a sandal made from tire of French vehicles for 10+ years, even wore it for official visit. He refused to change as lomg as it can be fixed.
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This is fake. Vietnamese culture forbid all kind of tampering with the death remnant, so this kind of barbaric act can never happen. Also, look more like half a coconut to me. This is not a W, this is slander.
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Translation of the sign: “Here on 26 October 1967 at Truc Bach Lake in the capital city of Hanoi John Sidney McCain was shot out of the sky in his A4 aircraft by local citizens militia defending Yen Phu. There were 10 other planes shot down on the same day.”
.@JoeBiden visits the John McCain memorial in Hanoi, Vietnam. “I miss him, I miss him. He was a good friend,” Biden said.
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Nobody knew who did it and how, such a hero. It took France few days to get it down lol.
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If you don’t know these 2 guys, how they protected the people and how they died, your opinion on the DPR and LPR are invalid.
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Professor Nguyen Anh Tri, national asembly member, proposes to build a law codify “right to change gender”, targeting the transgender community (~300-500k in Vietnam). Currently nobody prevents them to change gender, but the lack of law hinder effort to support them medically
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US Embassy tries to convince Vietnamese that unlike Russia, they do not have chemical weapon programs. Below is the top comment from Vietnamese netizen, just to show you whoever said we “forget the war, love the US” is just bs. It also shows high level of political awareness.
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In another news, Vietnam aims to build 1 million social and low cost housing mainly for industrial workers. The plan is officially approved today, which include credit support, max interest rate set, etc.
Gov't has approved a program to build at least one million social housing apartments by the end of this decade
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I may sound like a broken record but seeing is believing. Also, this is one of the biggest chemical warfare ever conducted in history of war with est. 1M victim and million ha of land unusable. Until today, the USA still did not acknowledge their crime.
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Who said in socialist country you can’t complain ? I just call directly to govt hotline to complain that there is not enough food support for my quarantine block, our groceries run out and we cant buy anything (cant go out, online order overload). Let see how fast they response.
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Nguyen Ai Quoc (later: Ho Chi Minh) “mugshot” when he was captured in Hong Kong (he was known as Tong Van So at that time). Lawyer Francis Loseby helps him to be released from the Hongkong govt without being expatridated back to French Indochina.
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@BadSocialisms It is a memorial of the AD defender who shot down McCain. He was depicted surrenderring and rising both his hand. Only the US shamelessly make it as McCain “memorial”. If you read the sign, it is clear it is anout shooting him down.
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Võ Văn Thưởng, former Vietnamese president who got axed just recently, is the last remnant of the liberal faction under former PM Nguyen Tan Dung. Below was his attempt for historical revisionism during his time as head of “education and propaganda committee” of the Party 🧵
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Vietnamese are all trained how to protect our fatherland. I was trained how to disassemle AK47 in my high school. This is based af.
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Did you guy know that Vietnam - Laos is going to build a railway to connect Vientiane to Vung Ang - the deep sea port in central Vietnam ? It will turn Laos from infamous “land-lock” to sea-accessible country and central logistical hub of SEA.
Riding the China-Laos high-speed rail w a banger Lao song "One Belt One Road" . Full video w the original MV w English and Chinese subtitles:
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This is the Vietnamese “tankies”. Strike fear into the heart of imperialist agent.
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I am only 1 year older than Luna, and I was born in the center, supposely “richest” part of Ho Chi Minh, which is supposed to be “richest” of Vietnam. Let me tell you how life was like before lifting of sanction.
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This is the official post from the Vietnamese govt official page. It reads “Vietnam always support the right and just struggle of Palestinian people for their basic national right”
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Dioxin (or TCDD) is most toxic chemical known to mankind, and created as by-product for agent orange (herbicide). It kills, causes cancer, and impact the fetus. It is also extremely durable and can last for a long time.
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You don’t call the Ansarallah as “Houths” just like you don’t call the National Liberation Front (NLF) as “Vietcong”. They are both derogatory term designed by the US to discredit the mass movement. Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap in the video below rejecting the “Vietcong” term.
Every time I refer to the group to an unlearned audience, I write "Houthis" in quotation marks. "Houthis" is a derogatory tribalist term heralding from the early days of the first Saadah wars back in 2004. Saleh used it to discredit the movement's wide national appeal. The.
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The US and south Vietnamese puppet spread propaganda that this chemical is “harmless, and only kill tree”, and urge the people not “believing what the Vietcong said” (that this chemical can kill). The fact they knew and lied just anger me even more
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Nón Lá - leaf hat - is famous as a typical Vietnamese symbol (esp. when related to “the Vietcong” to fight against the Yankee). However, little know fact that it is one of the most useful and versatile gadget that our ancestor invented in the 13th century.
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Rare photo of Fidel Castro & Le Duan on Hanoi street. Fidel was the only head of state who visited the war zone (part of today Quang Tri) in 1973 upon its liberation from the south.
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They brag in the movie “one Korean soldiers can kill 20-100 VC” and also “Korean soldier is Vietnamese heroes. - so the govt pull a plug. It actually violate our cinema law. For those who say we “forget” the war. Remember south Korea is one of the biggest source of FDI in VN.
The Vietnamese government requested Netflix to stop showing its Korean original series “Little Women” on Wednesday, insisting that the drama distorts the Vietnam War (1960-75) and violates media and cinema laws. #LittleWomen #vietnam_littlewomen .
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Interesting thread about cashew processing and export. The author did not explain why processing can be developed in VN (we used to export raw cahsew and other things too) and NOT in Cote d’Ivoire. It has a lots to do with our socialist government.
1. I recently learned that although the world's largest producer of cashews is Côte d’Ivoire, the world's largest exporter of cashews is Vietnam. Vietnam is making a fortune. Côte d’Ivoire is not. This is a story of successful globalization and failed industrialization.
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Vietnamese fooball fan filled up the stadium and waving Lao flag to root for U23 Lao team against Singapore. The Lao’s coach even said they feel like they play on home soil. This is spontaneous, just to illustrate how deep is the bond between people of the 2 countries
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Special helmet design for Thai (a minor ethnicity) women. This is to ensure they can still preserve their hair tradition while still protect their life when driving. Just a small example to show you how Vietnam takes care of ppls culture, unlike certain country who ban Hijab.
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In one word, what does this flag represent ?
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The Victim filed a class action lawsuit against Mosanto and 20 pther chemical companies, but it was dismissed by US court due to “lack of evidences”. What a joke !
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Today marks 68 years of the “earth-shaking” Dien Bien Phu victory. It was the start of the end for old style colonialism. It is to the colonized people what October revolution is to the oppressed workers around the world.
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My parents have 2000m2 which they gave to my uncle when they leave their hometown. My parent in law have 20,000m2 which they cultuvate every years. And note: this is NOT our pricate property. It belongs to the People as a whole and we only have the right to grow rice on it lol.
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Vietnam dealt with CIA-funded separatist movement (Central Highland 2004 - they even declare an autonomous state), color revolution (2012, 2018) in an effective way that hardly anybody outside of Vietnam know about it (unless you’re reactionary activey working against us).
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Ho Chi Minh Thought is a vast field of study. In this thread, I translated a good article about Ho Chi Minh Thought to give you a good initial idea of what it is about. Supported illustration and annotation are also provided along the way.
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So proud of you my countrymen ! And funny thing is the Israeli think they can film and “cancel” the guy while in fact he will even be more respected in VN lol.
🇻🇳🇵🇸 A restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam refused to serve Israeli customers. “My shop doesn't accept people from your country.”. The restaurant also displays a 'Free Palestine' sticker on its sign. Make sure to visit the 'Railway Tuan Café' when visiting Vietnam!
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As Vietnamese, I’m extremely proud where every decolonization and imperialism resistance movement in the world cites Vietnam as an forever inspiration. What we give the world is hope that an unyielding will with unity and solidarity, can defeat even the strongest enemy.
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It is Sunday and I just want to share some badass Vietnamese women. We have a saying “giặc đến nhà đàn bà cũng đánh” means “when the invaders come to your home, even women must fight”. There is a reason women is “de facto” head of household here lol
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Somebody hacked facebook account of bbc Vietnamese, VoA and RFA and changed their name to “Long Live the Communist Party of Vietnam” and “Long Live Ho Chi Minh” 🤣🤣🤣
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The hell, VN 1960 ????.
@zei_squirrel List of countries Russia has invaded recently. You actually have to click it to see them all
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First of all, the page in question is “Israel in Vietnam” - so not official embassy pages. The 1st paragraph is about “6000 raincoat from Vietnam support Israel”, but the 2nd paragrpah says “it is from a project sponsored by Israel foreign ministry”
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Our CPV general secrectary, the true communist who spend his whole life serving the people, passed away today at 13pm Hanoi time. “At the end, only dignity is the most precious thing - NPT”. This is a great loss to the Party, the State and Vietnamese people.
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This is what a card-carrying true communist look like in real life.
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1st one: why did Israel needs a raincoat ? You are not under phosphorous, bomb. If you want to be victim, you deserved to be tortured like what you did to palestinian. Get out of Vn, we are against colonialsm, apartheid and genocide. 2nd one: genocider shut the fuck up.
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If Western Leftist who accused us as being “embracing capitalist” lead Vietnam in the 1986, they will either let the whole country starve or let the revolution fall to imperialism rather than open up the economy. Later, they can say “what a great but failed revolution”.
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. which means they are the one who spent the money (not VNese). The company name is just a private clothing enterprise, and the A4 can be printed out and pasted either by Israel group or the company as request.
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The most telling part is, looks at Vietnam citizen reaction to the post below - majority is angry and I will translate some of the comment for you to understand what they say
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Officially, any message of.supporting Israel is suppressed in all media (that’s why A4 needed lol), while the Palestine embassy is allowed to open house for VNese to visit and leave message (cant find the photo but search you may find it).
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Compare Xi body languages in this clip and this photo with our PM (happen in the same G20 event) and you see where the priority is.
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The whole world (except country who oppose UN resolution in 1979) owns Vietnamese people an apology. Destroying the Khmer rouge and saving life of million Cambodian is akin to what the Soviet did in WW2 - destroying Nazi and saving Jews.
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1st comment: did they found WMD in Iraq ? 2nd comment: sorry for misunderstanding that agent orange is just “mỹ phẩm” (mean “makeup” but mỹ also mean USA). Say we close our history, but forget too quickly. For socialist fatherland, for HCM, ready. Long live the CPV.
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1st comment: yeah Russia is not like the US, if it is the US they will carpet bomb everything and destroy all with chemical weapon like agent orange. Also the only country which used nuke.
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Vietnam reestablished diplomatic tie with south Korea in 1992, Israel in 1993, USA in 1995. We have trade, technology cooperation and arm deal (only Israel, only to import the core weapon tech). Does not mean we stop support DPRK, Palestine and Cuba.
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Strikes happen in Vietnam, mostly against FDI company to ask for better benefits. The govt normally acts as meditator and work with the union. One strike in Nghe An ends today after 6 days and all demands are met (6% pay rises, remove rule require to turn up 10min early, etc).
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People did not understand how big an achievement it was for north Vietnam to shoot down 34 (16 down in its soil) in 12-1972 and remain the only country to do so. This ends all the US hope of winning as their most dangerous asset (aside from nuke) are nullified.
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The “anti-Chinese vaccine” crowd in Vietnam is unbearable. We just imported 5M does of Sinopharm Beijing and the story of “low efficacy” are emphasized everywhere (news, facebook, chat. ) whilr opposite reception is for Moderna.
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Vietnam send 100 fire fighter and equipment to Turkey and Syria. They are ampng the best firefighters in the country
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Vietnamese has a unique word “Người” (Capitalized) reserved only for the most revered heroes in our modern history. So far only 3 I know are called this way: Ho Chi Minh (obviously), Vo Nguyen Giap and V.I.Lenin. Just a small fact to commenorate Lenin’s 151 birthday.
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Perhaps you don’t know: Vietnam dedollarized our economy from 2010s, by denominating VND with a basket of currency, increase gold reserve (undisclosed number now) and direct trading in national currency with China (biggest trading partner) and Russia (biggest arm provider).
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The govt is overloaded, but the people don’t. I posted in FB anf within 1 hr wr got 500kg donation for the whole block (vegetable), people who are willing to go to supermarket to buy anythinf we need (at no cost) and countless other support. The people never disapoints.
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Việt Nam Vô Địch !!! Vietnam men team win gold in SEA games 2022. As usual we celebrate it with our uncle. The celebration on the street today will be WILD !!!
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“Never win a battle”? So wtf is this junk of metal do in our lake ? Fall out of the sky ? Typical “body count” mindset. Cope and seeth you dick head and thank for the aluminium.
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Less than 4 days and Cuba already announced they will give us 10M doses of Abdala and transfer the technology to us. Majority of Vietnamese are overjoyed with this and whoever talked sh*t aboutnour brother got destroyed lol 🇨🇺❤️🇻🇳.
Very good news! And VN will surely have it in the future when the situation allows. We may even help Cuba to scale up production as well.
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Vietnam just arrested a spy from ministry of labour who leaked state secret in an effort to establish “independent trade uinion”, just like the “sorlidanorc” which destroyed socialist poland. It is banned under our goverment and as usual western MSM (AP) said we are “repressing”.
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There are two countries where you can be sure Vietnam will send whatever support they need if needed: Cuba and Lao. Thailand tried to initiate a border skirmish with Lao in 1987 and got heavy casualty because of hidden involvement of Vietnam army.
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As Vietnamese said “100 times hearing is not equal to 1 time seeing”. “Trăm nghe không bằng một thấy”.
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1/ He insists to change the word “nguỵ quân/nguỵ quyền” (puppet army/govt, 伪) to “VNCH” (Army of south VN/Republic of VN) in the name of nation “unity”. It may seems trivial to oursiders, but it has a dire consequences: it legitimates the puppet govt in the south, which lead.
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We delivered this message consistently over a long time. When the US got annoyed, our diplomat said “this is what a real friend will do and we believe even the US wants a real friend as well”. Smart answer, as the US cannot publicly said they only want minion who obey them lol.
Vietnam at the UN: "We stand in firm solidarity with the people of Cuba, and call for the immediate lifting of the unilateral [US] embargo against Cuba, contrary to international law". Vietnam emphasized that the "confrontational and zero-sum game approach must be eliminated"
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You won’t see photo like this in other bilateral summit because Vietnam-Cuba relationship is unique and special. As said by Fidel “For Vietnam, Cuba is willing to devote our blood”. Real Vietnamese never forget who are good to us in the tough time.
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[Thread] Uncle Ho teaching. Start with the classic. It was stated when people ask what he thought about the destruction caused by the US in North Vietnam
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The only reason you cannot call the war in Vietnam as “American war”. (As we did) is because there are so many of them.
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President Xi is going to visit Vietnam officially soon ! Rumor has it that mega deal like HSR will happen. If it happens and he manages to keep sea conflict low key for the next 3-4 years, he will become my 2nd favorite Chinese of all time.
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(SHARING) This article by Gen.Sec Nguyen Phu Trong, Dr. Prof. In Marxism-Leninism, is the most comprehensive theory and praxis summary of Vietnam revolution: what is socialism, why does VN choose it and how can we reach there.
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I literally study and research nano-materials and I was pretty clueless about ML a few years ago (even with hogh school education). Particle physics does not automatically make you smart and inderstand everything.
I love having literally studied particle physics in college and then being told that I don't understand the "science" of "Marxist"-Leninism. Maybe. and just hear me out, you guys are not scientists, but you are instead in an ahistorical cult?.
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70 kids aged 4 need to be quanrantined (together with 1 parent since they are too small) for 21 days because they are F1 of one Covid19 case. This shows you how serious we are and also the Vietnamese spirit under difficulty.
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Land usage right in Vietnam: a corner stone of our socialist policy, illustrated through a neat example below: a guy open the road on “his” farm land and charge drivers - and the whole thing is just illegal.🧵
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. to claim that this is a civil/proxy war, and then the claim that the north “invade” the south (basically similar to narrative on Korea). It serves as histicial apologt for the US invasion (now just “ally support” while paint the north as “invader” and NLF as “terrorist”. .
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Vietnam destroyed the French legion at Dien Bien Phu to trigger decolonization, handed the US imperialism heaviest defeat by unifying the country and defeat one of the most barbaric genocidal regime in Polpot within 30 years is unbelievable.
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1st: who stand with you ? Who is your friend ?
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Are you that stupid to not understand basic diplomacy ? Diplomatic normalcy does not mean we approve its atrocity, idiot. Ngu hơn con lợn mà còn thích nói nhiều.
You're preaching ultra left stupidities you learned from your white American boyfriend to your mainly white American audience. We can't use our own flag? Then why does VIETNAM use it so liberally?
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Rare footage about people in north Vietnam (inc. HCM) pay tribute to our falled martyr. It should be around 1955-1965 period.
Tự nguyện (1968).Sáng tác: Trương Quốc Khánh .Trình bày: Bích Liên
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Even inside a “good” piece about Vietnam reaction to the pandemic, so can see sinister effort to spread propaganda.
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Lao Cai - Ha Noi - Hai Phong high speed railway (160km/hrs, standard gage, double track), worth 11B dollar, is under feasibility study and planned to start end 2025. This is part of BRI and also “2 economic corridor” between China and Vietnam.
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And this is life at the “richest” area in the whole VN ! Imagine what will be in the country side. Life changes significantly after the 2000. So we can fully understand what Cuban are going through. Sanction kills, so #LetCubaLive.
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Happy Unification Day Anniversaries (1975-2024). “Vietnam nation is one, Vietnam people is one. River can change, moutain can move, but this truth will never change - Ho Chi Minh”
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There will be people coming in with this photo to say “we support Israel as we bought weapon from them”. It shows they understanding nothing about Vietnam defense strategy.
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1st comment: who does not know the Ukraine regime is created by you after Euroaidan, it was not coincident that Victoria Nuland distributed bread in the suqare. You did not act like a big country. 3rd comment: list of US invasion / intervension in other country
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My situation is actually much better than many others, so I would like to get as much support for the whole block as possbile.
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This “guava shape shrapnel” killed my grand-father, a normal civilian in north Vietnam in 1969. And it was designed to kill civilian only, as the content inside (metal ball) cannot destroy any large structure.
During Vietnam War, Sweden is the only Western country condemned Americans when US Admin ordered bomb Vietnam "back into stone age". Have a look for the Made in USA gallery. Million UXOs and mines are still waiting to kill in Vietnam land 50 years after.
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You should know about a group of “intelligentsia”, who Vietnamese called “group 72” because they submit proposal to remove CPV general leadership, privatize land, deplototicize military… during our consitution revision in 2013.
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And for liberal and reactionaries: our govt and our people are one. Don’t try to spin my tweet, you loser.
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There were a group of ~20 DPRK pilot who volunteered to fight in VN against the USAF and they all killed in combat. This is little known fact about the DPRK support to north Vietnam during the war.
In 1967, Kim Il Sung agreed to send 700 DPRK volunteers with weapons & equipment to assist the Cuban military against the threat of a U.S. invasion. The DPRK-Cuban alliance during the Cold War was based on a shared revolutionary history, ideology, & resistance to U.S. imperialism
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The US drops million of bomb to Lao and Cambodia to cut off Ho Chi Minh trail (logistical support North-South) and failed soectacularly, so his whole argument is already wrong. Also, the US planned to use buke a few time in the court of the war.
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