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Image 1 — TIL Ho Chi Mihn led the disastrous land reforms in North Vietnam that lead to an estimated 200,000 people being falsely accused, publicly denounced, imprisoned and killed as “landlords”.
Image 2 — TIL Ho Chi Mihn led the disastrous land reforms in North Vietnam that lead to an estimated 200,000 people being falsely accused, publicly denounced, imprisoned and killed as “landlords”.
Image 3 — TIL Ho Chi Mihn led the disastrous land reforms in North Vietnam that lead to an estimated 200,000 people being falsely accused, publicly denounced, imprisoned and killed as “landlords”.
Image 4 — TIL Ho Chi Mihn led the disastrous land reforms in North Vietnam that lead to an estimated 200,000 people being falsely accused, publicly denounced, imprisoned and killed as “landlords”.
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TIL Ho Chi Mihn led the disastrous land reforms in North Vietnam that lead to an estimated 200,000 people being falsely accused, publicly denounced, imprisoned and killed as “landlords”.

u/asparagusman — 2 days ago
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Nowadays, kids are too cool to practice their chữ nôm. So we thought, what better way to reach them than to speak in their language!

u/asparagusman — 5 days ago
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The rock and roll music scene in Saigon in the 1960s was something else

u/asparagusman — 6 days ago
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TIL Vietnamese fighter Cung Le was a 3-time world Sanshou champion who went undefeated 17–0 in kickboxing before becoming Strikeforce Middleweight Champion and a UFC star. He used spinning kicks, side kicks, sweeps and Sanshou throws that most MMA fighters were not used to at the time.

u/GraceRVN — 6 days ago
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I am Both is a new children's book about a girl exploring her South Vietnamese identity as a refugee to America!

u/GraceRVN — 9 days ago
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TIL Vietnam has its own martial art known as Vovinam, founded in Hanoi in 1938 by Nguyễn Lộc. It combines strikes, grappling and acrobatic techniques including a famous flying scissors move using the legs to take opponents to the ground. Today, it has millions of practitioners worldwide.

u/asparagusman — 9 days ago
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There's a saying in Vietnam that still rings true today as seen by the communist students in Australia: Ăn cơm quốc gia mà thờ ma cộng sản. Eating the nation’s rice while worshipping communist ghosts. People take advantage of a country's freedoms but worship communist movement.

u/Thick-Date-5419 — 9 days ago
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May 1972: Photo taken at the Tổng-Y-Viện Cộng-Hòa military hospital. This young soldier had lost both legs during the opening days of the Easter Offensive, a campaign where the communist forces attempted to re-invade following their catastrophic Tết Offensive failure.

u/asparagusman — 9 days ago
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26 March 1970: Nguyễn Văn Thiệu on the day he signed the “Người Cày Có Ruộng” (Land to the Tiller) Act into law, one of the most significant and successful land reform programs in South Vietnam history.

u/asparagusman — 9 days ago
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US and ARVN forces defend the Cholon district of Saigon. May 9th, 1968

The May Offensive, known to US forces as "Mini Tet", was a major North Vietnamese and Viet Cong offensive across South Vietnam. The fighting in the densely populated Cholon district of Saigon (populated mostly by ethnic Chinese) was especially severe, with heavy urban fighting leaving the district in ruins and 150,000 people homeless

The offensive was a major tactical defeat for North Vietnam, and much of the Viet Cong was destroyed during the fighting, being largely replaced by North Vietnamese regular soldiers for the rest of the war

u/asparagusman — 13 days ago