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  1. It's pretty evil how the US keeps countries outside international trade when they don't fall in line with them.
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  2.  @NeerajBaid007  They helped China rise so 🤷‍♂️
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  3. From a moral standpoint, the US should have kept paying for reconstruction over the destruction it caused and removing the bombs. And it's not like the US hasn't broken any treaty in its history.
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  4. I don't remember the Vietcong dumping tons of toxic chemicals and napalm over civilians.
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  5. Or countries under colonial rule (Bengal, India in general and Ireland) or during and after devastating wars (like Vietnam). Famines would have happened in Western Europe after WW2 if not for American aid.
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  6.  @Marcjacobs97  Are we ignoring the decades of isolation/embargo, the constant wars Vietnam had to deal with after the US left? They had to liberate Cambodia from genocidal Pol Pot who was backed by America and China. They had to fight back against the Chinese invasion of 1979. They had to deal with the effects of Agent Orange and unexploded mines. They couldn't even rely on the international community because the US isolated them. Vietnam had it very rough. So is it really the effects of communism or those of imperialism? The best way to contain communism isn't by massacring and poisoning the local population like America did in Vietnam. It's by seeking compromise, supporting reunification of divided countries by making them perpetually neutral/non-aligned, implementing market socialism and giving commies some positions in the government to defuse extreme polarization. But no, it was too much to ask of paranoid American.
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  7. You also cut Vietnam off of the international community and refused to pay the billions you promised to help reconstruction. You're an evil country.
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  8. How is this far right?
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  9. He literally calls out the US at 8:28
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  10. Imperialism and famines? I'm sure Irish, Indian and many other colonized people can attest to that.
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  11. Tankies saying "it wasn't real communism™" sounds like ancaps claiming "it's not real capitalism™"
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  12. Obviously the Vietcong were right to fight against American imperialism and barbarity. Still, it's important to acknowledge the shortcomings of some policies and avoid them in the future.
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  13. China hasn't had a famine for decades, neither did the USSR after 1950, Vietnam hasn't either even if they were on the verge to have one.
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  14. I consider myself left-wing (no denomination, there's too many and I don't know jackshit nor care about theory) and I don't understand why commies focused so much on collectivizing agriculture. Did Marx even talk about that? They should have let farmers do their thing if they produce enough and focus on industrialization. Let farmers have their ricepads, as a treat. Especially since efforts to collectivize the land are doomed to failure and sabotage. The industry is what needs to be collectivized/commonly owned. Once industries are established, the rural population will flood to them.
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  15. Just implement NEP for a decade or so. Socialism develops inside capitalism, communist parties should recreate an artificial capitalist era to develop their economy before collectivizing.
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  16.  @imogen1  I was genuinely asking but seems like you have brain worms.
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  17.  @koolaidblack7697  No, Francophobia in the US was huge prior to and during the Iraq War and it did reach ridiculous proportions.
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  18. That's unfortunately something that plagues all political systems.
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  19.  @thientuongnguyen2564  And in the West, we can criticize our leaders and then what? Nothing fundamentally changes.
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  20. They still avoided famine Patricia and not thanks to capitalists who had blockaded their economy and stopped them from getting international loans.
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  21.  @Levittchen4G  Can you point out some of the inaccuracies and lies in this video? Genuinely asking. I'm not surprised that land reform/collectivization went bad in Vietnam since it was also the case in China and Russia.
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  22.  @Joaquin546  Europe isn't socialist. It has some social-democratic policies still in place even though they are vanishing due to neoliberalism and the EU.
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  23.  @Joaquin546  I genuinely do not understand your comment. What the f are you talking about? If anything it proves my point, that social-democratic policies (low retirement age and the pension system) are under attack from neoliberals (Macron raising that age).
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  24.  @Joaquin546  They didn't fail. The retirement age was raised. Macron violently repressed the protests and forced through the Parliament to pass this infamous reform.
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  25. 8:28 America is evil.
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  26.  thientuongnguyen2564  I thought the relations between the two countries were still sour
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  27.  thientuongnguyen2564  Isn't Vietnam increasing its military cooperation with the US?
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