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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
As for the Communist take over of Vietnam. So what? What difference does it make to the US what the political persuasion of the Vietnamese Government is? I don't see them giving a shit about ours.
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Yeah right. Just like it didn't matter that Germany started building up arms and violating all its agreements pre-WWII or just happened to annex Austria - What could go wrong???, or Japan started building up its arms again after a decades long psychopathic, genocidal rampage across its own region etc etc etc etc etc. The Soviet Unions influence was minimalized in the world because the west worked hard to do so through every means possible.
Saying "so what" to the threat of people that gleefully killed 10's of millions of their own people to transform a nation and bring it into the industrial age, using its own people as a slave labor force and then attempted to take over the world to spread their influence and the joys of the Soviet Union, is absurd. Spend some time as I have in Russian cities like Magadan or outposts in the far east full of old prison camps as I have and you might get a little perspective and understand that arguing the semantics of what label is applied to a system of government or economic system is 100% irrelevant to the wake of misery and murder it left behind.