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@ribbitribbitsaga The people in the countryside call Ho Chi Minh city by Saigon because they listened to their parents and grandparents called the city by that name and are used to it. The old name is Saigon, the name was created when the French colonized our country and it was changed to Ho Chi Minh city later.
Communism, like capitalism, has both good and bad points. Our economy is similar like capitalism. People can own property and foreign countries can invest in us. My aunt has stock in a private hospital. If you compared, our country is way different from China and North Korea. Our politics is communism with one party. It has both good and bad points like I said. One party can lead to monopoly in power but as the same time, in time of crisis, our people can work together collectively unlike how in the US, Republican and Democrat keep stepping on each other's foot, trash-talk about each other. One example is Corona responses, both Viet Nam government and the people agree on wearing mask and full lockdown to stop the virus while Americans are still debating about mask wearing, the virus is a hoax or not, vaccine is poison, protesting, etc.
You don't have to visit our country. Americans are currently banned from entering most countries in the world anyway. We still have tourists from other countries who love visiting us like South Koreans, Japanese and Europeans.
About Pol Pot, you can easy find the information in the internet. You can use the website Worldcat.org and see if your local library carry books about that subject although university libraries are more likely to carry those books. In Cambodia, they have a museum dedicated for the victims of Khmer Rouge Genocide. You can watch this documentaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU4hWdIMTGs
I live in both Vietnam and the US. Vietnamese have a lot more freedom than the rumor Westerners like to believe as long as we don't slander the government.
Also we have a proper name for our country, Vietnam so stop calling us Nam. It is like you don't agree that we are an independent country.
Ho Chi Minh wasn't a Communist tyrant. Stop believing lie. He is completely different from Pol Pot. Pol Pot was afraid of smart and educated people, people from minority ethnic group, so he committed genocide to eliminate them. Ho Chi Minh never did things like that . He actually lived a modest life and denied any luxury. He endured many things, he worked as a kitchen helper on a French steamer to learn about other countries and find a way to liberate the country from the French, he was put in prison in China, etc. He managed to learn the languages of every country he visited. All he wanted where freedom for people and the country. Actually, at first, he didn't consider Communism. He actually went to the US hoping for help to liberate Vietnam from the French but America refused to help him, that was the reason he turned to Soviet Union who actually helped us. If the US agreed to help us, then we wouldn't be a Communist country now.
In school, we learn all about his life in the textbook, his death, his poetry, etc.
You call him a tyrant is illogical because he died before the South Vietnam was liberated. Who were he being a tyrant to? North Vietnam? But if he was a tyrant to them then why did they follow him in fighting the US and endured many terrible things, even dead?
Communism, like capitalism, has both good and bad points. Our economy is similar like capitalism. People can own property and foreign countries can invest in us. My aunt has stock in a private hospital. If you compared, our country is way different from China and North Korea. Our politics is communism with one party. It has both good and bad points like I said. One party can lead to monopoly in power but as the same time, in time of crisis, our people can work together collectively unlike how in the US, Republican and Democrat keep stepping on each other's foot, trash-talk about each other. One example is Corona responses, both Viet Nam government and the people agree on wearing mask and full lockdown to stop the virus while Americans are still debating about mask wearing, the virus is a hoax or not, vaccine is poison, protesting, etc.
You don't have to visit our country. Americans are currently banned from entering most countries in the world anyway. We still have tourists from other countries who love visiting us like South Koreans, Japanese and Europeans.
About Pol Pot, you can easy find the information in the internet. You can use the website Worldcat.org and see if your local library carry books about that subject although university libraries are more likely to carry those books. In Cambodia, they have a museum dedicated for the victims of Khmer Rouge Genocide. You can watch this documentaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU4hWdIMTGs
I live in both Vietnam and the US. Vietnamese have a lot more freedom than the rumor Westerners like to believe as long as we don't slander the government.
Also we have a proper name for our country, Vietnam so stop calling us Nam. It is like you don't agree that we are an independent country.
Ho Chi Minh wasn't a Communist tyrant. Stop believing lie. He is completely different from Pol Pot. Pol Pot was afraid of smart and educated people, people from minority ethnic group, so he committed genocide to eliminate them. Ho Chi Minh never did things like that . He actually lived a modest life and denied any luxury. He endured many things, he worked as a kitchen helper on a French steamer to learn about other countries and find a way to liberate the country from the French, he was put in prison in China, etc. He managed to learn the languages of every country he visited. All he wanted where freedom for people and the country. Actually, at first, he didn't consider Communism. He actually went to the US hoping for help to liberate Vietnam from the French but America refused to help him, that was the reason he turned to Soviet Union who actually helped us. If the US agreed to help us, then we wouldn't be a Communist country now.
In school, we learn all about his life in the textbook, his death, his poetry, etc.
You call him a tyrant is illogical because he died before the South Vietnam was liberated. Who were he being a tyrant to? North Vietnam? But if he was a tyrant to them then why did they follow him in fighting the US and endured many terrible things, even dead?
