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Kidnapping in Berlin in 2017: Slovakia implicated

Kidnapping in Berlin in 2017: Slovakia implicated

9 August 2018
According to the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, an executive of the Vietnamese administration, who had sought refuge in Germany, was kidnapped in Germany by the Slovakian Secret Services. They then handed him over to the authorities in Vietnam.
According to the German newspaper, Trinh Xuan Thanh was a former executive of the state company PetroVietnam charged by the authorities of his country of causing this entity losses escalating to 150 million dollars. He was (...)

General Giap is dead

General Giap is dead

5 October 2013
General Vo Nguyen Giap passed way at 102 years of age.
He was despised by his Western counterparts because he had never attended a military school and because he was gay.
However, he successively defeated French and US imperialism, and liberated his country, Vietnam.
Opposed to Cambodia’s occupation by Vietnam, he was removed from the political leadership of his country in (...)

Shift in Russian-Chinese tectonic plates

Calling the China-Russia split by its right name

by Melkulangara K. Bhadrakumar

Calling the China-Russia split by its right name

4 September 2012
As China and Vietnam lurch increasingly towards crisis, Beijing is not amused at the Kremlin’s refusal to reciprocate over the United States’ "pivot" in the Asia-Pacific, especially since returns from its diplomatic support for Moscow’s embattled ally in Damascus are expected. The symbolism of Russia hosting the Vietnamese president and the Japanese foreign minister in quick succession in July was not lost on China either. Detecting a chill descending on Sino-Russian relations, Ambassador Bhadrakumar throws light on the situation.

Today’s Pentagon Papers Warning

by Daniel Ellsberg

Today's Pentagon Papers Warning

19 June 2011
The U.S. government has finally released the full Pentagon Papers describing how the American people were misled into the Vietnam War. The declassification comes four decades after most of the document was leaked by Pentagon insider Daniel Ellsberg, who today says similar deceptions are enabling wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Cuba Commemorates Establishment of Vietnamese Communist Party

Cuba Commemorates Establishment of Vietnamese Communist Party

Havana (Cuba) | 4 February 2010
Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo presided over a ceremony on Wednesday night to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Vietnamese Communist Party.

Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam

by Marjorie Cohn

Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam

16 June 2009
More than 30 years afte the end of the Vietnam War, it is time to make good on Nixon’s promise and remedy the terrible wrong the U.S. government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam . Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. Vietnam veteran victims. However, as Agent Orange continues to take its toll, the United States is employing other chemical weapons against civilian populations in its war-driven agenda.

History

Ho Chi Minh: The Vietnamese struggle against Japanese, French and US Imperialisms

by Marta Rojas

Ho Chi Minh: The Vietnamese struggle against Japanese, French and US Imperialisms

Havana (Cuba) | 13 September 2005
On the occasion of commemorations for the 30th Anniversary of the liberation of Saigon, we publish a work on the life and work of the founder of Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh. By rejecting all compromises that led astray part of his own generation, Ho Chi Minh restlessly fought imperialism, either coming from Japan, France or the United States. He became one of the major symbols of independence struggle in the 20th century.

“Just Once Was Enough To Get a Medal”

by Anatoly Khiupenen

8 May 2005
The Russian involvement in the war of Viet Nam is exaggerated. There was only a total of 6 000 Soviet military specialists there. Thirteen died there, out of which 3 or 4 died in combat. At the beginning, soldiers of two antiaircraft missile-launcher battalions departed to train the Vietnamese on how to use the C-75. Our men fought at least at the beginning. The pilots only delivered lessons. As of 1966, the Soviet specialists were only in charge of the material.
We went there (...)

“The Vietnamese Made Sure We Did Not Take Control”

by Evgueni Antonov

8 May 2005
At the beginning of the war, complete units of «Zenith» missile-launchers departed from the USSR to Viet Nam. The 2nd Briansk battalion, for example, left with all its members. There we tested the new material, improved it to escape from the missiles and learned how to shoot against small targets. We only used surface-to-air C-75 launching devises, because the first C-125 appeared in Egypt. The Vietnamese wanted the C-125, but that implied that the material had to go through China and we (...)

“The War We Silently Introduced”

by Michael Sexton

8 May 2005
Two important anniversaries pertaining to the war of Viet Nam will be celebrated this week. 40 years ago, Australia entered the war and, 30 years ago, Saigon fell into the hands of the north-Vietnamese forces. _ Later 1964 and early 1965, the debate about the interference in Viet Nam was at its height in Washington. Since the mid 50’s, the United States had military advisors in South Viet Nam, but not ground troops. The debate continued and Johnson’s advisors failed to understand that (...)

“The clouds of war still hover over Vietnam”

by Pham Thi Hoai

8 May 2005
When I was born, the war was already underway. I lived it everyday for 15 years. But I was not an unhappy child. In North Viet Nam, during the 1960s and 70s, I thought war would last forever, like clouds in the sky. However, in 1975, we saw the advance of red flags in our school maps. Everyday, a student would place a red flag upon a new city captured in South Viet Nam. When the re-conquest concluded, I cried like the others, but I did it because I was afraid: what would happen now that the (...)

Vietnam 1967/ Iraq 2005

"Vietnam: 83% participation despite the Viet Cong terror"

by Arthur Lepic, Jean-Sébastien Farez

"Vietnam: 83% participation despite the Viet Cong terror"

11 February 2005
While fully bombing the north of Vietnam in 1967, the U.S. was organizing elections so that part of the population in the occupied Southern Vietnam chose a president. Eleven years before, the U.S. had openly breached the Geneva Agreements by annulling the general elections held under international control that would undoubtedly have led Ho Chi Minh to power. Openly distorting UN resolution No. 1546 in 2004, Washington organized again an electoral campaign under the conditions of an occupation war, to try to make the world accept an illegal occupation. But this time, the majority of the leaders of the opinion took a bow in front of this “stage to democracy”.

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Ho Chi Minh: The Vietnamese struggle against Japanese, French and US Imperialisms
History

Calling the China-Russia split by its right name
Shift in Russian-Chinese tectonic plates

"Vietnam: 83% participation despite the Viet Cong terror"
Vietnam 1967/ Iraq 2005

General Giap is dead

Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam

“The War We Silently Introduced”

Cuba Commemorates Establishment of Vietnamese Communist Party

Kidnapping in Berlin in 2017: Slovakia implicated

“The Vietnamese Made Sure We Did Not Take Control”

“The clouds of war still hover over Vietnam”

Today’s Pentagon Papers Warning

“Just Once Was Enough To Get a Medal”