Comments by "黑龍 - Hắc Long" (@-haclong2366) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. How the Vietnam War is portrayed is also dependent on where you are in Vietnam, in Northern Vietnam it is seen as "a glorious war" and celebrated as a liberation, while in Southern Vietnam you see charities for people born with birth defects and people describe the war as "Hell on Earth". It is clear that it's "a national trauma" to one half of the country and "a glorious chapter of our country's history" in the other half of the country.
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  2. It wasn't pointless, it ended one of the most brutal genocides in history.
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  3. This is also why (unlike Germany, Austria, and Japan) the Allies never occupied Italy.
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  4.  @conserva-chan2735  it's because the anti-war protestors never really cared about peace, they just didn't want their own money and resources to be spend on the safety of others. Just imagine how horrible South Koreans would suffer under the Kim Dynasty if the U.S. had an anti-Korean War lobby as powerful.
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  5. It's because South Vietnamese soldiers are largely forgotten. Just look at U.S. American coverage of the Korean War, it's portrayed as "America Vs. Korea" and they always show White U.S. American soldiers fighting Communist Koreans, but South Korea is completely left out of the war. But in South Korean media the South Koreans are depicted as having done the bulk of the fighting with U.S. American aid.
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  6. One thing people forget is that Vietnam became the poorest country in the world due to the global sanctions against it as a consequence of its invasion of Cambodia. Despite Cambodian people generally being glad that the Vietnamese kicked out the Khmer Rouge, the international community saw it as an illegal invasion and the Vietnamese economy greatly suffered because of it. In fact, I'd like to call it "the war that broke Vietnam" despite their swift victory, the international reaction crippled the Vietnamese economy for decades.
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  7.  @gladtownghost  bullets flash when they come out of the gun...
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  8. Depends on the person you're talking to, many Vietnamese nationalists are very pro-U.S. because they see them as a counter-balance to the Chinese, but the Vietnamese Communists tend to see them as a useful pawn to use against Chinese expansionism in the region. Weirdly enough, not much seems to have changed in this regard since the Vietnam War.
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  9. @Joshua Nissen Yep, Bureacratic collectivism masquerading as socialism.
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  10. 19:02 "Russian" nuclear warheads, nope, those were Ukrainian, Russia simply claimed them for themselves.
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  11. 14:38 It is funny how big England was there.
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  12. Italy, the Thailand of Europe.
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  13. Meanwhile at the Taiping Rebellion...
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  14. 19:52 But Napoleon Is Latin, he is probably more Latin than anyone in America as he was actual Italian.
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  15. After 20 years of conflict it's still less deadly than Korea.
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  16. "the failure of Indian States like the Maratha Empire to unify India", people at that time didn't think in terms like that, the modern notion of "India" as imagined by the Indians was created during the Sepoy mutiny and the Mughal Emperor was appointed to head it, the Mughals weren't really figureheads but more of a waning state, also you didn't even mention the Princely States which were theoretical "independent" countries with only subsidiary relations with the U.K. And numbered around 500 (five-hundred) by 1949. India was much like Europe and much like how the Germans, British, French, Russians, Swedes, Etc. Don't think of themselves as "European" the pre-colonial Indian states didn't see themselves as "Indian".
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  17. That's because the Indians lost due to colonisation, China was colonised... But by the Manchu's (the Qing) and not the Europeans, but as all the administration was in the hands of a multi-ethnic ruling class they can't just blame their Manchu overlords as then they would be shifting the blame. Also in Chinese Republican culture blaming the Qing for everything is trendy and Socialism takes cues from that. The Japanese managed to become rich and successful by actually modernizing and so did the Siamese (Thai) during the 19th century while China stayed behind.
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  18. You missed Gorbachev's motivation for opening up the system, he knew that any actual reforms would face backlash from the Communist Party's politburo so he tried to give Soviet citizens more people so they could elect him and he would have the backing of the people. He was right that the inner party would lose power, but as the entire country was built on the Bolshevik Party it simply stopped existing without the party, so he lost out.
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  19. So Italy was like Russia was for the Allies in W.W.I or what Italy was for the Allies in W.W.I.
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  20. Drew's Argentinian grand-father's origin story.
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  21. 08:00 I'd probably blame the Socialist planned economy more than the War.
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  22. 12:50 Not sure if "ethnic cleansing" is the correct term, as it's based on religion and not genetics.
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  23. Wow, mandatory identification cards... Sooooo oppressive, it's not like almost every modern country has this.
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  24. 17:05 Which is identical to China, only North Korea and Cuba haven't attempted liberalisation.
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  25. They were "Western", Russia is geographically about as Western as Greece, ¿Or are you willing to state that Greece is an Oriental civilisation?
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