RR7522A VIETNAM SAIGON THE COMMUNISTS TAKEOVER

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 20. 07. 2015
  • (30 May 1975) RR7522A VIETNAM SAIGON THE COMMUNISTS TAKEOVER
    With the Vietnam War now over, the new Communist
    rulers have taken charge in Saigon. A WTN camera
    crew elected to stay behind as the city fell to record
    not only the Communist take-over, but also the first
    fifteen days of Communist rule.
    Film: Rev - Sound: Mag/SOF - Colour- Available in HD
    Find out more about AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
    Twitter: / ap_archive
    Facebook: / aparchives ​​
    Instagram: / apnews
    #Vietnam #War #Communists
    You can license this story through AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

Komentáře • 5K

  • @thelabminer2048
    @thelabminer2048 Před 2 lety +2036

    CZcams algorithm has united us all once again.

    • @ArmyJames
      @ArmyJames Před 2 lety +20

      Ain’t that the truth.

    • @muscuut
      @muscuut Před 2 lety +8

      Absolutely🤣

    • @cfranko1860
      @cfranko1860 Před 2 lety +16

      Do you not see why?

    • @MdSamim-xj9dr
      @MdSamim-xj9dr Před 2 lety +19

      History repeat itself once again ladies and gentlemen 👏 👏👏 American army coward Army

    • @peterl3417
      @peterl3417 Před 2 lety +2

      Yep...

  • @venezuelanomarico
    @venezuelanomarico Před 2 lety +2978

    Boomers saw Fall of Saigon
    Zoomers saw Fall of Kabul

    • @TheLockbeard
      @TheLockbeard Před 2 lety +132

      That could not be any more true. Also to add more coincidence the previous generation preceding saw trauma of which the world changed.
      Pre-boomers saw the horrors of WWII
      Millennials saw the horrors of 9/11

    • @Anthonywb
      @Anthonywb Před 2 lety +39

      Its all part of the plan.

    • @sooryan_1018
      @sooryan_1018 Před 2 lety +35

      @Souven Tudu Betas would

    • @diegos.loayza3706
      @diegos.loayza3706 Před 2 lety +2

      @@sooryan_1018 XD

    • @insanity5503
      @insanity5503 Před 2 lety +6

      Wait you forget Philippines 😓

  • @chessdad182
    @chessdad182 Před 2 lety +547

    I went on a vacation to Hanoi and Saigon. It was very interesting. Beautiful country. Friendly people. Great food.

    • @dontcomply5008
      @dontcomply5008 Před 2 lety +5

      Great heroin out there I tell ya, great heroin.

    • @HavanaSyndrome69
      @HavanaSyndrome69 Před 2 lety +19

      Do any locals really call it ho chi minh city? I've heard that everyone, regular folks in every day life, have always called it Saigon. It's a much better name anyway. Washington DC, or just DC, sounds better than The District of Columbia George Winifred Washington City LOL

    • @spookyengie735
      @spookyengie735 Před 2 lety +36

      @@HavanaSyndrome69 As a northerner, we casually call HCM city "Saigon" but the official now is Ho Chi Minh City.

    • @votuanphu6299
      @votuanphu6299 Před 2 lety +24

      @@HavanaSyndrome69 of course shorter name, why not ? it not like the goverment ban the people to call that name anyway. But on paper and id stuffs well HCM city as alway.

    • @Lilhajxjk274
      @Lilhajxjk274 Před 2 lety +7

      Ho chi minh city

  • @ngthoangyen
    @ngthoangyen Před rokem +233

    My parents are both from the North of Vietnam. They were still kids in 1975 and my mom always told me how happy it was back then when she didnt have to hide herself under the basement to avoid the bombing after the reunification. My mum had an uncle who had left the big family to go South with his small family in 1954 promising to be back in 1956 but it turned out he only saw them again 19 years later and his dad had died in 1965. He refused to flee from Vietnam in 1975 because he wanted to see them again. Then he took all his big family to the South including my mum and gave them shelter, helped everyone find a job and found school for my mum. Unfortunately, he died tragically in a car accident while riding his other niece to find a job in 1979. His small family are all in Germany and America now but all of us back in Vietnam always appreciate his generosity and great support. If there was no reunification in 1975, I wouldnt have been born on earth. The war brought a lot of pain to most family. There are people suffering because of the incident happened in 1975 but there were families like ours getting a lot better after it. I hope all the pain heals in the end and there will be no war like this ever happens again.

    • @ngthoangyen
      @ngthoangyen Před rokem +2

      @@babafoodle9624 We experience economic downturn this year. I don't think the situation is good because we suffer from so many lockdowns back in 2020 and 2021. But I guess there is still a chance for growth and I'm seeking it as well.

    • @taolaai123123
      @taolaai123123 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@ngthoangyen wise man always say "shit happens"

    • @BPD1586
      @BPD1586 Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@babafoodle9624 I am from America and want to move to Thailand

    • @agustinenzoa4447
      @agustinenzoa4447 Před 10 měsíci +8

      Very interesting life story with all the ups and downs. I can only imagine how so many years of war brought pain and mischief to so many. I was lucky to visit some of your beautiful country and get to meet very nice people in Hanoi area mostly. I would like to visit again sometime soon and get to see the rest of the country starting in HCM City upwards. Hope you are well and keep the spirits high, Im sure you will be fine and so will your contry. Cheers from Argentina!

    • @ngthoangyen
      @ngthoangyen Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@agustinenzoa4447 Thank you for your kind words. Ho Chi Minh City and the nearby provinces such as Da Lat, Phan Thiet are also very interesting to visit. Hope you will have a great trip next time.

  • @robsmithadventures1537
    @robsmithadventures1537 Před 2 lety +1684

    History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” - Mark Twain

    • @racetoria3069
      @racetoria3069 Před 2 lety +15

      USA can never be trusted. They fly you up and left u all alone mid air to fall.

    • @tatarchan5212
      @tatarchan5212 Před 2 lety +10

      @@racetoria3069 sweat in Taiwan, flame of red dragon in the horizon shine bright while Eagle screech has turned in to Covid cough.

    • @yogadarmawan3051
      @yogadarmawan3051 Před 2 lety +6

      Next will be taiwan?! I hope not!

    • @user-uv3li8tk4r
      @user-uv3li8tk4r Před 2 lety +4

      @@tatarchan5212 Taiwan has Japan on their side though. Even if biden would let China take Taiwan he wouldn't let them take Japan. He'll be out in 3 years anyways and we'll likely get someone like desantis who will take a hard stance on china.

    • @tatarchan5212
      @tatarchan5212 Před 2 lety +2

      @@user-uv3li8tk4r desantis? That anti vaxxer​ delusional fascist? He can't even take on Cuba properly, both Trump and Biden does far better job than him and that's saying something.
      Also China don't need Japan, they want only Taiwan because they're still in civil war after 70 years of barking at each other and both prepared to become the one real China. Victory over Taiwan is like victory over confederate in China which every leader eager to succeed at doing so.
      Imagine if confederate still exist would US president want to put an end to this forever war?

  • @_Devil
    @_Devil Před 2 lety +1032

    AP has a twisted sense of humor, recommending this during the Saigon 2.0 incident recently.

    • @ar2042
      @ar2042 Před 2 lety +58

      CZcams did it. The resemblance is strange though

    • @jamesholmstrom5837
      @jamesholmstrom5837 Před 2 lety +2

      *laughs out loud*

    • @ivanarciniegas7324
      @ivanarciniegas7324 Před 2 lety +19

      its not "sense of humor", it is an obviously relevant story 🙄

    • @Krafanio
      @Krafanio Před 2 lety +3

      @@ar2042 The resemblance is quite natural of any desperate evacuation. Those in charge f*** it up again.

    • @RachmadaniFAG
      @RachmadaniFAG Před 2 lety +2

      @@ivanarciniegas7324 almost same, for example is north Vietnam soldier and Taliban use M16 😂

  • @nhuphamthuy6749
    @nhuphamthuy6749 Před 2 lety +563

    My beloved grandfather was one of the communists coming to Saigon these days. As a teenager who joined the army, he left his family in the north of VN (Hai Phong) when my mother was just a very little kid, bumped into the war when no one could say when it ends and whether he lived or died.
    Luckily, he could see me growing up as a teenager for almost 20 years. And so am I.
    He passed away 6 years ago. Whenever I miss him, I think I will find this video and see how fabulous his youth is.
    Stop telling it is the same as Kabul. Any war is meanless and we - Vietnamese with yellow skin will fight till our last breathe to keep our freedom and independence.

    • @chrisryaninchoco324
      @chrisryaninchoco324 Před rokem +36

      Then your one of the bad guys!!!!😡😡😡😡

    • @nhuphamthuy6749
      @nhuphamthuy6749 Před rokem +179

      @@chrisryaninchoco324 why you call he bad guy? Imaging people you loved were raped and then killed, you have to stand up, although you have no idea of when it ends, but you have to fight for your family at first. War has no meaning. We fight for our own freedom and peace. I'm so proud of my grandfather. When he left the army, he was dioxin toxin positive (I want to say more but my english is just like that) and after that my grand mother misscarriaged again and again. Thank for the American gift.

    • @chrisryaninchoco324
      @chrisryaninchoco324 Před rokem +18

      @@nhuphamthuy6749 you should learn to love your people and not the government!! Yeah sure your country is now happy and prosperous but lack of freedom!!!!😡😡😡😡😡

    • @nhuphamthuy6749
      @nhuphamthuy6749 Před rokem

      @@chrisryaninchoco324 stop telling as if you live next to my door 😏. You don't even live in Hanoi. Shut up about trash

    • @manhnguyentien6644
      @manhnguyentien6644 Před rokem

      @@chrisryaninchoco324 the gov do good comrade
      Tell me what freedom shit we don’t have kid
      When you guy get raped so hard by covid out there we’re drinking beer and talk shit about our government
      We got free speak after all
      The only shit you can’t say shit about is out national hero like Ho Chi Minh,..
      So you west stop the shitty thing you talk about our Vietnam if you are not Vietnamese
      That look stupid are shit man
      Ah yes
      With the kind of you about to say we brainwashed or some shit like that after all
      How pathetic

  • @robertparsons313
    @robertparsons313 Před 2 lety +251

    Vietnam is now an amazing country with resourceful, talented people.

    • @Osterochse
      @Osterochse Před 2 lety +13

      and a very corrupt government that calls itself socialist and practices crony capitalism.

    • @user-ew9mc2rg1l
      @user-ew9mc2rg1l Před 2 lety +8

      @@Osterochse not far off from politics in Malaysia but yea I'd dare say they're living life better than us here

    • @duyendo4358
      @duyendo4358 Před 2 lety +10

      @@nguyenbriton4263 go to us to live as their dog. Lol. Many rich people in vietnam but it's not stupid ones like u

    • @nguyenbriton4263
      @nguyenbriton4263 Před 2 lety +1

      @@duyendo4358 at least im not stupid enough to make grammar mistake like you ma'am

    • @sxi9852
      @sxi9852 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Osterochse The goverment is not corrupted.
      The US is the most highest example of high crimes rate, terrorist rate, high racisium,......not even gonna tell more.
      Is a total mess compare to others big country like Russia, Chinese (commuinist), to be compare to Vietnamese.

  • @bskiez
    @bskiez Před 2 lety +1516

    Next: we going to see *The Fall Of Kabul* 2022.
    Edited:
    As of today Sun Aug 15 2021 Taliban Captures Kabul, spoke too soon 😌

    • @bazle64
      @bazle64 Před 2 lety +31

      Yeah baby!

    • @XVRMEDIA
      @XVRMEDIA Před 2 lety +39

      I can hardly wait for it

    • @simulify8726
      @simulify8726 Před 2 lety +18

      Who knows what will happen, Taliban has hardly captured any major city and districts are changing hands every day, there is no certainty when the conflict will be over

    • @wyunaboy
      @wyunaboy Před 2 lety +38

      it could end sooner. it might be the end of 2021.

    • @achmadyazir1039
      @achmadyazir1039 Před 2 lety +40

      Not the fall of Kabul... The liberation of Kabul, liberated by the Afghan people.

  • @tramorester
    @tramorester Před 2 lety +1072

    From French colonialism to American occupation, the strength of the Vietnamese people has to be admired

    • @Sandhill1988
      @Sandhill1988 Před 2 lety +96

      Well you mean the North Vietnamese people. Seems to me if soon as the US pulled out 3 years before the southern Vietnamese were looking for a reason to fold like a cheap tent. That's one of the reasons why the US pulled out because of corruption and they weren't willing to fight hard enough for their own freedom. If you want it bad enough you'll do anything to get it, one side obviously wanted it more than the other.

    • @BalloonInTheBalloon
      @BalloonInTheBalloon Před 2 lety +18

      @@Sandhill1988 South Vietnam was a brutal regime in its own right, where the tiny Catholic minority imposed its will on the Buddhist majority; no wonder it folded.

    • @Carolina-uu5ji
      @Carolina-uu5ji Před 2 lety +5

      @@Sandhill1988 gringo go home

    • @haitolawrence5986
      @haitolawrence5986 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Carolina-uu5ji

    • @Sandhill1988
      @Sandhill1988 Před 2 lety +20

      @@Carolina-uu5ji the truth hurts doesn't it.

  • @shiishani3302
    @shiishani3302 Před 2 lety +129

    Damn reports really used to be relatively objective instead of filled up with cheap propaganda...

    • @myview5840
      @myview5840 Před 2 lety +7

      Still propaganda but yeah they had integrity to tell a story and not a narrative

    • @asdf3568
      @asdf3568 Před 2 lety +14

      @@myview5840 How is this propaganda? I thought it was very balanced and fair.

    • @chithiennguyen1371
      @chithiennguyen1371 Před 2 lety +11

      @@myview5840 how is this propaganda, it is obviously fact and truth. You can go to Saigon and see, all Vietnamese here will agree this.

    • @HuyNguyen-jl7go
      @HuyNguyen-jl7go Před měsícem

      @shiishani3302 you call this propaganda because it doesn’t fit your belief. Instead of calling a vid propaganda,maybe you should pay Vietnam a visit to see if facts fit your belief . And stop coping with government lies,we don’t execute people for fun .

  • @tonywuanwilliam8476
    @tonywuanwilliam8476 Před 2 lety +317

    Vietnamese army in this time was a strong army in the world .Because they won 3 wars : 1 with French from 1858 to 1954 and 2 with English in South Viet nam from 1946 to 1954 . 3 with American ,Australian,South Korean and New Zealander from 1961 to March,1973 .They won the war in 30/4/1975 .In their history,they had many wars with Chinese for 1,800 years,many battles with Japanese,Qing (china), Mongolian,Thailand people,Laos,Cambodian,Dutch and Spanish .But they love PEACE very much .

    • @cardinalRG
      @cardinalRG Před 2 lety +66

      The North Vietnamese military was indeed very strong, despite the tendency of outsiders-especially Westerners-to portray it as little more than a scrappy band of rice farmers. Many Vietnamese are justifiably proud of having fielded a professional, highly trained fighting force.

    • @dudelebowski8629
      @dudelebowski8629 Před rokem +8

      @@cardinalRG i mean it was a bunch a scrappy rice farmers, they were just TOUGH scrappy rice farmers!

    • @cardinalRG
      @cardinalRG Před rokem +47

      @@dudelebowski8629 --The Vietnamese I know don’t care for the “rice farmers” characterization, nor the David-versus-Goliath metaphor that Westeners, especially, like to use. They take it as a simplistic stereotype, however well-intentioned it may be. (I assume that you didn't mean it this way.) It’s meaningful to mention that among Vietnamese fighters there were doctors, lawyers, accountants, clerks, entertainers, teachers, architects, engineers, and many others who’d never grown a grain of rice in their lives. Together they formed professional, highly trained and seasoned military forces, and labeling them as “rice farmers” isn’t necessarily the compliment it is intended to be.

    • @ninofromkitchennightmares1497
      @ninofromkitchennightmares1497 Před rokem +5

      If it was a strong army then it shouldn’t of needed to fall back entirely onto guerrilla warfare

    • @mushroom11g55
      @mushroom11g55 Před rokem

      @@cardinalRG they don't need a compliment, they only won because the American People had mercy on all the soldiers involved. If the American people wanted blood, we would blow up the whole country. We half assed all wars after WW2, we never gave full effort again. Why? Because we have too much mercy, war is too ugly, we don't have conscription, drafts are rarely used etc

  • @Cjephunneh
    @Cjephunneh Před 2 lety +564

    How many Americans know that HCM actually reached out for USA after WW1 to help him win independence for Vietnam, and he was not a communist back then? He repeated his attempts several time but was shunned back. How many Americans know that CASTRO tried the same thing with the US to win the same thing for his Cuban people, but was also Shunned? Same with the Soviets they also tried to be friends with the west after WW2, but were actually shunned back. The ruling elite/ bankers of the USA were always ready to deceive their own American people and hide the real story, for the benefit of the industrial complex. The only 2 presidents that actually tried to warn Americabs about it and tried to stop those proxy wars were Isenhower and JFK.

    • @KiNg-be7lv
      @KiNg-be7lv Před rokem

      They pushed Vietnam toward communism, then send troops there to reverse it. They liberated Afghanistan from Taliban just to give it back to them later together with billions dollars worth of equipment. unnecessary bloodshed everywhere. It is just stupid.

    • @anvutrong6870
      @anvutrong6870 Před rokem +51

      So true

    • @godloveamericalastname7004
      @godloveamericalastname7004 Před rokem

      you are spreading ignorance... all of them were shunned because of reason: Corruption and Hypocrisy... I live in Russia, and a lot of people abroad don't understand how miserable and poor russia is... total corruption and unhuman government, people live here like cattle haha
      Poor countries and third world bandit countries like China, Cuba, Russia, Vietnam etc don't understand Human Words, they don't work or speak like Germans - straight and effective.. Western Business only exploit those barbaric pseudo-nations LOL

    • @andang7005
      @andang7005 Před rokem

      HCM has been a communist since the final years of the 1910s, he was a member of the French Social Party, and voted in favor of the establishment of the French Communist Party. The Soviets after WW2 were aggressively trying to make the whole world communist, this is evident in the fact that puppet communist governments were systematically founded in Eastern Europe, in the countries that was unfortunate enough to be "liberated" by the USSR. They were not "shunned", they were wolves pretending to be harmless sheep, and they got what they deserve.

    • @tedmccarron
      @tedmccarron Před rokem

      BULLSHIT!! The Communists were hell bent on taking over the world and these supposed attempt to reach out to the US were simply attempts to get Aiden support from us before they killed us and made us communist too. Lenin said that the capitalists would sell them the rope they would use to hang them with. Whenever we did try to be friendly with them it came back to haunt us in the end. Castro and Ho Chi Minh were Soviet loyalists who had no intention of long-term friendly relations with the us. Their intentions were to make their own areas and eventually the rest of the world communist and take all our rights away.

  • @airraverstaz
    @airraverstaz Před 5 lety +360

    The Vietnam War is still alive and raging today......in this comment section.

    • @anhtubui661
      @anhtubui661 Před 2 lety +10

      it's all about US

    • @joemarvincentserrano4234
      @joemarvincentserrano4234 Před 2 lety +15

      South Vietnamese Republic
      (1949-1975)
      💛🚩
      Coalition forces supported by the United States
      North Vietnamese Democratic Republic
      (1955-1976)
      🔴🚩
      Communist forces supported by the Soviet Union
      Socialist Republic of Vietnam
      (1976-present)
      🇻🇳
      The born of Southeast Asian power supported by own members of ASEAN

    • @chickenpuddingstudio4730
      @chickenpuddingstudio4730 Před 2 lety +6

      It's true i wish video like this stop being political

    • @quananginh9446
      @quananginh9446 Před 2 lety +12

      @@chickenpuddingstudio4730 it doesn't matter now who was right or wrong. History can't be changed. Still, the desire to find out the truth is a big one.

    • @chickenpuddingstudio4730
      @chickenpuddingstudio4730 Před 2 lety +3

      @@quananginh9446 vietnamese?

  • @lonelyboyll08
    @lonelyboyll08 Před 11 měsíci +43

    It was interesting how Ho Chi Minh worked with the OSS in WW II and invited American officers when he declared independence of Vietnam. He obviously needed US as an ally not Soviet or China. Later, in some interviews, he expressed how he was inspired by American revolution and he was willing to do the same in Vietnam. His work could go as planned if he got US on his side. Unfortunately, US government didn't give any attention to him which led to a huge mess afterwards.

    • @hoabienlam265
      @hoabienlam265 Před 8 měsíci +9

      that is true, if Americant govermen have accopany with HOCHIMINH the Viet nam war no happened

    • @ronahue1946
      @ronahue1946 Před 7 měsíci +3

      That is sad and might have turned out different had Roosevelt lived or not been pressured into dropping his long time VP (Wallace). Both men were determined to rid the world of colonialism. Truman was picked solely because he had few political enemies and once he had taken office after FDR's passing was persuaded to back France's recapture of control in Vietnam.
      If Vietnam had become free with the blessing of the USA in 1945 just think what that country might have became by this time. They are on the rise these days and I wish them good fortune.

    • @JasonweedQ3
      @JasonweedQ3 Před 3 měsíci +6

      He was a very intelligent man. Definitely dedicated to his country. He was well educated. It all could have and should have been different .

    • @lanang2940
      @lanang2940 Před měsícem +1

      Tôi đồng ý với bạn

    • @actualnotsorightguy3
      @actualnotsorightguy3 Před měsícem +1

      Charles De Gaulle threatened the Roosevelt Administration that they would join the Soviet Bloc if the US picked Vietnam over France. The French came back to Vietnam in 1945 to retained their colony, the communist force was only around 500 to 1000 men at that time. Later, French got their butts kicked in 1954. All I have to say is history is intertwined and predestinated.

  • @dukelafferdy1564
    @dukelafferdy1564 Před 10 měsíci +32

    I was on my last hitch in the USN and just before I retired from active service in 2004 at NAWS China Lake, CA and one of my junior Petty Officers was a younger man of Vietnamese birth. He was one of the sharpest, most professional, proficient and respectful I have ever known. I kept track of his career thereafter and was very pleased to have seen him advance up the ranks. He spent so many years in those refugee camps and on the wrong side of the wire in Bataan Province, Philippines and had every reason to be bitter, angry or depressed, however, once he finally had the opportunity to join the USN he was 100% All In. Anh Le you are a True Inspiration to me.

    • @GrislyAtoms12
      @GrislyAtoms12 Před 9 měsíci +5

      You will never know how helpful and inspiring your comment is to me at this moment. I was laying back in my chair, depressed about life, and your account of Anh Le has just jolted me into focus and optimism. And more. Thank you.
      Folks should never forget how an inspiring account about someone can help a total stranger.

  • @aahh8850
    @aahh8850 Před 5 lety +613

    Meanwhile, 200 km of them (in Phnom Penh), the genocide was begun by khmer rouge.

    • @nothingspecial1053
      @nothingspecial1053 Před 5 lety +107

      And the VPA kill them too .

    • @joe_chill1060
      @joe_chill1060 Před 5 lety +97

      Communism, brings death. Poor Cambodia for example,and Ukrain. At least there was no Genocide in Vietnam, as far as i know.

    • @flowersstaringback9234
      @flowersstaringback9234 Před 5 lety +177

      They we're not communist they we're mad men with racist ideology.

    • @meredrums1
      @meredrums1 Před 5 lety +38

      @@flowersstaringback9234 Everything they had on the banners screamed Communism. What is the Hammer and Sickle? Go ahead, call it White. Marx & Lenin were.

    • @AlmirBispo-CSV-Comp-DB
      @AlmirBispo-CSV-Comp-DB Před 5 lety +8

      @@flowersstaringback9234 ?

  • @LarsPjokk1
    @LarsPjokk1 Před 5 lety +658

    That first scene is NOT the US Embassy, but an apartment building on 22 Gia Long Street, now 22 Lý Tự Trọng Street, where CIA and others where stationed.

    • @patrickcarragher8317
      @patrickcarragher8317 Před 4 lety +26

      Yes it is still there and so is the ladder..

    • @mattstephens6137
      @mattstephens6137 Před 3 lety +4

      Can you help me understand what you mean? Was that some sort of capstone event? Lol

    • @moisesfuentes2090
      @moisesfuentes2090 Před 2 lety +16

      He he he the important, it is seen the almighty amerikan army running away with its tail between its legs, or as Richard Watergate Nixon said, a peace with honor! Eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh

    • @bestyduong
      @bestyduong Před 2 lety +15

      @@mattstephens6137 The United States Embassy in Saigon was first established in June 1952, and moved into a new building in 1967 and eventually closed in 1975. The embassy was the scene of a number of significant events of the Vietnam War, most notably the Viet Cong attack during the Tet Offensive which helped turn American public opinion against the war, and the helicopter evacuation during the Fall of Saigon after which the embassy closed permanently.

    • @bestyduong
      @bestyduong Před 2 lety +16

      @@mattstephens6137 US embassy in Saigon was the first US embassy in the world to be attacked, Tet Offensive 1968

  • @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc
    @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc Před 9 měsíci +14

    And we call them uncivilised. Not a recorded case of drunkeness, rape or pillage. Outstanding!

    • @havu-oj4qh
      @havu-oj4qh Před 7 měsíci

      Còn những người văn minh thì killing baby,raped women,cut head of civilans

    • @LarsTragel-zh7ei
      @LarsTragel-zh7ei Před 4 měsíci

      You fell for communist propaganda, kid.

    • @7ElevenAlphaCentauri
      @7ElevenAlphaCentauri Před 19 dny

      They learned their lessons from Hue and didn’t want a South insurgency

  • @sMansGuitars
    @sMansGuitars Před rokem +56

    I remember watching this on the news....I also remember everybody treating Kissinger as a hero for the peace negotiations, but we didn't know then, what we know now of course. The USA leaving Vietnam with its tail between its legs, just as the French had done, proved what a wasted exercise the war against the North had been.
    It didn't need Uncle Ho to stay alive long enough to witness the last flights out, he'd fought the Japanese, the Frogs and US forces and if it took another 100yrs, the fight would've continued, successive Western governments just stupidly ignored one major fact that over rode everything else: these were Vietnamese people fighting for their own land, meanwhile the average Frenchie or American couldn't have cared less, until it was them, or a son/husband/father/brother that got drafted and sent to fight an ultimately pointless war.
    The irony was of course, that had the US government responded favourably to Ho's requests for help, and forced the Frogs to give up their colonial rule, war would've been avoided, and what more proof did those leaders need, that the Vietnamese made for terrible enemies, than their battles against the Japanese? The US resorted to some truly dreadful means of warfare that would be considered war crimes when committed by others yet they still couldn't stave off a hopeless stalemate against a far less well equipped or trained guerilla army.

    • @David-vt3hn
      @David-vt3hn Před rokem +4

      Even Americans hate Anericans. It's rough over here in Pennsylvania.

    • @allstardad
      @allstardad Před rokem

      If I was Truman, I would have done the same, backing Charles De Gaul instead of HCM. HCM was an American allies in fighting against the Japanese during ww2, but France was American allies fighting the German. Later, Việt Nam became the battlefield of the superpowers.

    • @ManhIMT6789
      @ManhIMT6789 Před 19 dny +1

      Cảm ơn bạn đã nói lên sự ngu ngốc của chính quyền Hoa kỳ ngày đó.:D

  • @FeldwebelWolfenstool
    @FeldwebelWolfenstool Před 2 lety +304

    ...in the late 80's, there was a small restaurant on Queen Street East in Toronto. It had photos of end-of-war Vietnam on the wall. The owner was previously a press photographer, and had gotten out of Saigon on one of the very last helicopters...

    • @osamabinladen824
      @osamabinladen824 Před 2 lety +8

      Wow

    • @paulc1665
      @paulc1665 Před 2 lety +14

      There's a lot of ARVN vets still here, at least as of a few years ago when they had a reunion - in uniform - in Toronto's Mel Lastman Square. And the RVN flag still flies down the street from me here for some reason.

    • @fumotized8210
      @fumotized8210 Před 2 lety +2

      is the restaurant still around?

    • @osamabinladen824
      @osamabinladen824 Před 2 lety +1

      @@fumotized8210 Yes

    • @FeldwebelWolfenstool
      @FeldwebelWolfenstool Před 2 lety +2

      @@fumotized8210 ...long gone, I imagine, the neighbourhood's getting gentrified...it was just down the street from the watering hole that James Earl Ray quenched his thirst at, when he was still on the lam...that was earlier on tho'..

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh Před 5 lety +515

    I well remember listening to the news on my car radio during this time and realizing to my amazement that the Vietnam War, which had caused immense upheavals in the USA and had been such an inescapable part of much of my life, was now really and finally ending.

    • @polishherowitoldpilecki5521
      @polishherowitoldpilecki5521 Před 4 lety +3

      hebneh Were you in nam.

    • @topgeardel
      @topgeardel Před 2 lety +22

      I was a Vietnam/Draft resistor. I remember these scenes on TV For some reason, it brought no sense of relief b/c I realized I was witnessing an American defeat that was demoralizing. Imagine the families of those 60000 who were lost there. I was anti-war...not anti-American

    • @BOB-wx3fq
      @BOB-wx3fq Před 2 lety +1

      @@topgeardel resistor 😂😂
      So full of sh*t its coming out of your ears
      I'm a Navy seal resistor

    • @topgeardel
      @topgeardel Před 2 lety +1

      @@BOB-wx3fq What that means is you think more with your **** than the brain in between your ears. And you had special training to master that. I'm sure your fellow unibrows are very proud of you.

    • @BOB-wx3fq
      @BOB-wx3fq Před 2 lety

      @@topgeardel ok sure, the chechyan rebels disarmed the tankers, took apart their AK's, disassembled the bolt carrier groups, removed the firing pins, reassembled the rifles and gave it back to the tankers
      That makes so much sense

  • @StraightEdgeSieghart
    @StraightEdgeSieghart Před 2 lety +103

    The Fall of Saigon is only a western name. Vietnamese called it the reunification of their country.

    • @vuimotchutthoi6509
      @vuimotchutthoi6509 Před 2 lety +25

      That is the true

    • @user-dr7ru8pm3d
      @user-dr7ru8pm3d Před 2 lety +2

      the same thing with kabul !

    • @krustyclown2152
      @krustyclown2152 Před 2 lety +11

      I prefer the LIBERATION of Saigon, and now the liberation of Kabul.

    • @thuongthuong4457
      @thuongthuong4457 Před 2 lety +10

      @@user-dr7ru8pm3d What's the similarity? Despite assholes who fleed to US, you see how happy people werr when the north troops entered the city?

    • @parkertang2134
      @parkertang2134 Před 2 lety +3

      you mean Communists, not Vietnamese

  • @cryptohornbill9658
    @cryptohornbill9658 Před 2 lety +123

    The repeat in Kabul is almost comical.

    • @cat_city2009
      @cat_city2009 Před 2 lety

      First as tragedy, then as farce.

    • @pkmkb_0
      @pkmkb_0 Před 2 lety

      well written script by cia but at the end climax changed by isi

    • @matheusvillela9150
      @matheusvillela9150 Před 18 dny

      @@cat_city2009 This isn't a tragedy, it's a liberation. And ironic that you would quote Marx to call it a tragedy

  • @ExAid010
    @ExAid010 Před 2 lety +287

    US: "Ok that's it! It's over! We're done, never happened again!"
    Taliban: "Hmmm"
    US: "What?"
    Taliban: *"You wouldn't get it"*

    • @RachmadaniFAG
      @RachmadaniFAG Před 2 lety +10

      US must learn about what they did, because it's already happened Twice (but lil bit different)

    • @ExAid010
      @ExAid010 Před 2 lety

      Well there is lesson says lightning never strikes twice in 1 place. *WRONG!* . It hit like twice to the US mental power now

    • @AA-cu4jo
      @AA-cu4jo Před 2 lety

      western war thirsty monsters are now heading to South China sea for another potential war
      the whole world should boycott, sanction and if possible just nuke the sh*t out murica to achieve the eternal peace

    • @AA-cu4jo
      @AA-cu4jo Před 2 lety +6

      @mistermodified1 your mom's bedroom

    • @vannhantran547
      @vannhantran547 Před rokem

      I do get it, the brutal things which is not funny

  • @mateenfhary1788
    @mateenfhary1788 Před 5 lety +132

    This doesn’t look like the fall of a city
    It looks like a liberation of one

    • @richardlawson4317
      @richardlawson4317 Před 5 lety +16

      Indeed!

    • @kdolo100
      @kdolo100 Před 3 lety +13

      Liberation, yes!

    • @vnqh32
      @vnqh32 Před rokem +1

      wrong, the communists sent people to concentration camps, as well as also torturing and killing people

    • @walterdo9614
      @walterdo9614 Před rokem +7

      that's the one, Vietnam does not like to be the same like Korea

    • @captainkyperplayz1162
      @captainkyperplayz1162 Před 9 měsíci

      Liberation to single party dictatorship?

  • @jaymeskhor
    @jaymeskhor Před rokem +15

    Hundreds of thousands young Americans and Vietnamese lost their lifes for one day of the fall of the southern regime, then the people who were in fear of the regime welcomed and embraced their brothers from the north.

    • @havu-oj4qh
      @havu-oj4qh Před 7 měsíci

      You have seen that very valuable image, in contrast to the smear of the CIA and the puppet government of Saigon.
      Americans and saigon regime warned: the communist army would "bathe in blood", "pull out the nails", Frank Sneep, a senior CIA official, even wrote "the communist army captured a female Saigon radio announcer, tied her up, cut her tongue ". That's why many people panicked, ran after the army and died at sea.Chaos occurred throughout South Vietnam, so the Saigon government collapsed without any major battles. Even the North was unpredictable.

  • @Elcollpohorrible
    @Elcollpohorrible Před 8 měsíci +82

    Congratulations Vietnam that you got your land back. My deepest respect for all the people whom died for national independence.

    • @tedmccarron
      @tedmccarron Před 7 měsíci +6

      What are you talking about? Vietnam lost its land to the Communists in 1975.

    • @Elcollpohorrible
      @Elcollpohorrible Před 7 měsíci +9

      @@tedmccarron So? You are not making any logical sense

    • @Daniel-je1eq
      @Daniel-je1eq Před 6 měsíci +2

      cảm ơn bạn

    • @tedmccarron
      @tedmccarron Před 6 měsíci +6

      @Elcollpohorrible the Vietnamese who died for national independence were the ARVN and other South Vietnamese military members. They fought bravely against the Communists even when the odds were hopeless.

    • @vinhlong7347
      @vinhlong7347 Před 6 měsíci +5

      @@tedmccarronshut

  • @driftking4AGE
    @driftking4AGE Před 2 lety +99

    We are reliving this day today except instead of April 30, 1975 it is August 15, 2021. Instead of the fall of Saigon it is the Fall of Kabul.

    • @earlysda
      @earlysda Před 2 lety +3

      America lost the Vietnam war because the Communists broke their treaty to not continue the war. In Afghanistan, America chose to leave rather than stay forever. It's just that Biden didn't plan it out at all, so everything is chaos.

    • @bdan6954
      @bdan6954 Před 2 lety +1

      Yea we know.

    • @josephleonard6695
      @josephleonard6695 Před 2 lety +1

      @@earlysda everything about Biden is chaos

    • @jake8855
      @jake8855 Před 2 lety +1

      @@earlysda What's your point? A loss is a loss.

    • @earlysda
      @earlysda Před 2 lety +1

      @@jake8855 Jake, the point is --- don't ever trust a Communist to do as they say.

  • @dat_toonie
    @dat_toonie Před 2 lety +76

    To be precise, NVA and NLF (aka Vietcong) were far different from Taliban. They behaved like regular human beings, and all they have wanted were unification. Taliban, on the contrary, well...

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 Před 2 lety +12

      Lmao, as if the NVA and NLF didn't commit their share of atrocities. Both treated their POWs brutally, conducted terror attacks, and sent hundreds of thousands of re-education camps where many were tortured and killed. You can say literally the same about the Taliban, all they wanted was reunification of their country since the invasion of the Soviets and its collapse into Civil War thereafter.

    • @dat_toonie
      @dat_toonie Před 2 lety +6

      @@taoliu3949 and your proof is? Lol people such as yourself wont ever understand that life in the re education camp had been much better than daily lives that day

    • @spookyperson7096
      @spookyperson7096 Před 2 lety +5

      @@taoliu3949 Your name sounds Chinese and indeed, China's re-education camps were fucked

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 Před 2 lety +12

      @@dat_toonieProof? Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed by the NVA and VC during the war through deliberate terror attacks. Hundreds of thousands of people sent to re-education camps have provided testimonies. Oh yes, "better than daily lives" equates to being imprisoned, beatened, tortured, etc. The Vietnamese government even tried to justify their actions by labeling these people as "prisoners".
      That said, where is YOUR proof that the Taliban did everything you claimed they have done?

    • @taoliu3949
      @taoliu3949 Před 2 lety +3

      @@spookyperson7096 Lol, Mao was infamous for his ability to incite fighting between the classes, his entire period of rule could basically be characterized as him destroying his political rivals through successful persecutions of various people. First you had the "land reforms" which where the peasantry was goaded to attack and kill the landowners. Then you had persecutions of the KMT post 1949 which resulted in 700k+ people executions. There were also several anti campaigns that were aimed at businessmen, intellectuals, and members of the CCP who was claimed to be corrupt resulting in millions of deaths. The Cultural revolution was also an incitation of the students to attack their superiors, but also effectively annihilating many of his own political rivals within the party.

  • @dr.batman2530
    @dr.batman2530 Před 2 lety +50

    Saigon: *Falls
    Kabul: WRITE THAT DOWN!

  • @phamquanghuy2222
    @phamquanghuy2222 Před 2 lety +97

    People in Saigon back then cheered because that they are not so worry about fighting and being in fear that they are going to be shot and forced to fight their own Vietnamese people. Peace is one thing that we are desired for more than 40 years, more than anyone, we understand how valuable it is.
    One more thing is that the government of south Vietnam, or the "thing" that they call "republic of Vietnam" totally sucked, with corruptions, evils like banning Buddhism and other religion that have made people in South Vietnam hate the government. Only that cannot stand the pressure of living under Communism decided to turn against their own nation, and become United States 's burden and keep rotting themselves until these days in little Saigon in California, keeping dreaming about their fed-like-animal history

    • @chrisryaninchoco324
      @chrisryaninchoco324 Před rokem

      If you support communism!? Then your one of the bad guys!!!!

    • @pantheonenjoyer2511
      @pantheonenjoyer2511 Před rokem +5

      Agree

    • @myoptimumpride5178
      @myoptimumpride5178 Před rokem +1

      It doesn't matter economic prosperity is goimg to the south

    • @iamperson371
      @iamperson371 Před rokem +3

      @@myoptimumpride5178 u do realise that vietnam is one of the fastest growing ecomonies in the world? vietnam is not fully socialist...

    • @David-vt3hn
      @David-vt3hn Před rokem

      Seems like you got some anger issues. But some people believe in the gook way of life. Maybe you and I could smoke some opium together.

  • @JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly
    @JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly Před 2 lety +145

    America:
    *“Ah shit here we go again”*

    • @Coolsomeone234
      @Coolsomeone234 Před 2 lety +4

      Gotta make money on a sequel

    • @chriss780
      @chriss780 Před 2 lety

      @mistermodified1 us was so brutal it managed after 20 years of war managed to unite the whole country behind the Taliban, even groups they'd previously oppressed, because the us was worse

  • @michaelmarchanda
    @michaelmarchanda Před 4 lety +226

    16:59 Saigon had luck that the regular forces ot the north lead the war in this phase. Some wanted to settle their own old scores. In Phnom Penh the kids soldiers of the Khmer Rouge behaved like psychopathic killers.

    • @orhunkaan3428
      @orhunkaan3428 Před 3 lety +62

      Well, the Khmer Rouge is full of psychopathic killers.

    • @renegadusunidos6151
      @renegadusunidos6151 Před 3 lety +102

      This NVA are the ones who destroyed the psychopathic khmer rouges and polpot

    • @Nhatanh0475
      @Nhatanh0475 Před 2 lety +76

      Well we Vietnam kind of help the new Cambodia and eliminate those psychopathic after 1975 war. Although many of my people gone starve between the war with Cambodia while America superiority of "Embargo". We still managed to survive, wipe out Khmer Rouge for doing war crime on it own people and my people, and see the error of our socialism way and change for the better for our people. Now here we are, freedom with economy grow even in the middle of the pandemic.

    • @linusmayden8465
      @linusmayden8465 Před 2 lety +16

      @@victorbukowsky7496 It's still Socialist, mixed-market Socialist it's simply not a command economy anymore. Lol

    • @Historymotion
      @Historymotion Před 2 lety +14

      while China, Thailand, USA and UN are who behind supported those psychopathics killers

  • @josephleonard6695
    @josephleonard6695 Před 2 lety +92

    Biden: *This isn't Saigon. C'mooon maaan!*
    Kabul: **is also Saigon, only worse**

    • @jake8855
      @jake8855 Před 2 lety +5

      @Livin Vids Happened before the US even fully withdrew. At least the South Vietnamese held on (kinda) on their own for a couple years. Not to mention the hubris from the US leadership saying how the ANA had 300,000 troops and there was hardly a chance they would fall to the Taliban.

    • @Thunderchild-gz4gc
      @Thunderchild-gz4gc Před 2 lety +6

      @@jake8855 not kinda. South Vietnam fought longer and harder than Afghanistan ever did.

    • @silentclown4307
      @silentclown4307 Před 2 lety +1

      @Livin Vids i’ll tell you why. The US was desperately trying to get the fuck out of Vietnam and their people support it. They got out with a bunch of orphans with them and the war was over. The end.
      But Afghanistan situation is different. Now that they haven’t got out yet and their troops were still dying from terrorist attacks, Afghanistan will surely become a sanctuary for ISIS and Al Qaeda ver 2.0. There’ll be 10/11, 11/11, 12/11... attacks on the US soil by these groups of terrorists. The war in Afghanistan is now widely open with more potential civil war and uprising.

    • @tandung05_nguyen51
      @tandung05_nguyen51 Před 2 lety +2

      @Livin Vids Well, the Vietnamese communists didn't discriminate against women like the TLB

    • @dontworrybehappy1942
      @dontworrybehappy1942 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tandung05_nguyen51 - They persecuted all southerners equally.

  • @Awakeningspirit20
    @Awakeningspirit20 Před rokem +62

    Vietnam literally is one of the toughest nations of all time, they fought several nonstop, sometimes overlapping wars from 1946 until 1991. No matter which side won, we now see that inevitably Vietnam would become a friend of the USA. And it's an honor to be your friend, I hope to visit one day.

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 Před rokem +28

      Friends but not allies, Vietnam will stay neutral to avoid being pawned by greater powers, and the Vietnamese never forget American atrocities committed to the land.

    • @user-cg8el9tm2b
      @user-cg8el9tm2b Před rokem +6

      @@angkhoanguyen6114 Вьетнамцы самые лучшие воины во всей Азии

    • @user-cg8el9tm2b
      @user-cg8el9tm2b Před rokem +5

      @@angkhoanguyen6114 Уважение вьетнамцам

    • @TheTeesquare
      @TheTeesquare Před 10 měsíci

      You Vietnamese people don't want to be friends with the US. VN can be friendly, but not friend, to the US. US doesn't believe in friendship or loyalty. The Americans only work with partners for mutual benefits. The US is a good, fair partner, and won't screw VN like China. VN needs to be an equal partner, not a beggar, by bringing something good to the table, and the US will stick with VN. Look at Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Do not fall in love with the US, or any other countries, especially Russa, and definitely not China. VN needs to realize the days of sharing communist ideology are over.
      The only people who are friends and loyal to Vietnamese are Vietnamese.

    • @b.m.whindle9195
      @b.m.whindle9195 Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@angkhoanguyen6114 Respectable

  • @eugenio1542
    @eugenio1542 Před 2 lety +11

    Thank you for airing. Vital historical document.

  • @vincentroysamot7311
    @vincentroysamot7311 Před 3 lety +18

    Angelo Castro, Jr. as 30 years old the fall of Saigon in Vietnam
    25 years later he was 55 years old Angelo Castro, Jr. anchor of The World Tonight

  • @tattantatgames226
    @tattantatgames226 Před 2 lety +70

    April 30, 1975. My father is still a young student in the north of Vietnam, he said that one day a man ran through the streets of the village and shouted: "Liberation! Free!". Behind that man was a group of farmers who also abandoned their plows to run after them. My whole village suddenly felt like there was a festival. People poured into the streets cheering and waving flags. Students that day missed school because when they cheered, they threw their schoolbags into the lake LOL. A beautiful memory of the people of the 20th century in Vietnam

    • @commanderiosifstalin4938
      @commanderiosifstalin4938 Před 2 lety +15

      Ông bà nội ngoại tôi chiến đấu chống cả Pháp và Mỹ trong nam, họ cùng nhiều đồng đội khác may mắn sống sót để nhìn thấy ngày chiến thắng và cùng toàn quân tiến vào Sài Gòn hôm đó. Tôi là dân miền nam, và tôi tự hào về lịch sử cũng như đất nước độc lập, thống nhất và tự do mà tất cả chúng ta có ngày hôm nay.

    • @David-vt3hn
      @David-vt3hn Před rokem

      You talk like a Gook lover. What about my American soldiers getting their ass kicked for 10 years? Who speaks for them? 🇺🇲

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@thompsonnguyen1870 begone traitor, and never bother coming to Vietnam

    • @ClassifiedUnit-135
      @ClassifiedUnit-135 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@thompsonnguyen1870 Ok. "thompson" "nguyen">

  • @HoangNguyen-xo6bp
    @HoangNguyen-xo6bp Před 2 lety +82

    13:39 "Nothing is more valuable than independence and freedom"
    Do we Vietnamese have independence and freedom? Yes
    But I am afraid for those in Afghanistan now living in the terrorist regime not having the same things we have.

    • @f.o.o.l1506
      @f.o.o.l1506 Před 2 lety

      I'll rather prefer a communist government than an extremist Islamic group

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 Před 2 lety +8

      You have independence, but do you have freedom?

    • @f.o.o.l1506
      @f.o.o.l1506 Před 2 lety +19

      @@capncake8837 freedom is. better than none at all, for example ISIL

    • @thethirdman225
      @thethirdman225 Před rokem +18

      @@capncake8837 Vietnamese and American ideals are not the same.

    • @DungNguyen-jf4in
      @DungNguyen-jf4in Před rokem +19

      @@capncake8837 well, freedom depends on the people's view. Western standard can't be applied on all countries :v

  • @cadeth100
    @cadeth100 Před 2 lety +165

    Another decade, another Saigoon in the shape of Kabul!!

    • @Sandhill1988
      @Sandhill1988 Před 2 lety

      @Zea Maze for who?

    • @someone28
      @someone28 Před 2 lety +2

      Afghans had 20 years to clear the country of Taliban. All people in power there are corrupt. They will flee and take their money with them. No matter who wins the average Afghani is worse for it. What's even worse is that for 20 years Pentagon has been milking $$$ out of the American taxpayer and got away with it. There are counteless scrap yards of perfectly serviceable equipment that was scrapped so that people's pockets could be greased. This is all public knowledge but no one has balls to do anything about it.

    • @yu-jd5jg
      @yu-jd5jg Před 2 lety +5

      Vietnam Afghanistan Iraq Syria etc etc until Washington learns to mind its own business

    • @teukurajahitam8225
      @teukurajahitam8225 Před 2 lety

      Taliban has occupied Kandahar the second largest city, and they on the road to Kabul

    • @MikoyanGurevichMiG21
      @MikoyanGurevichMiG21 Před 2 lety

      @@teukurajahitam8225 its over.

  • @Holuunderbeere
    @Holuunderbeere Před 2 lety +7

    Always like the ap Archive footage

  • @devonoylear2415
    @devonoylear2415 Před 10 měsíci +31

    I have MASSIVE RESPECT for the all of Vietnamese people, they literally just just wanted to be able to have their country reunited in peace and to have the freedom to be able to decide for themselves what route to take to reaching creating a successful destiny and future for their homeland. And isn't that just the desire of every peoples of every country in the world. Communist/Socialist or not, THAT IS THE WILL OF EVERY COUNTRY AND OF EVERY ONE OF THEIR CITIZENS IN THE WORLD, period! And so it should be! The Red terror.... please. I mean, look at the example the Vietnamese people set for the rest of the Communists/ Socialists of the world. They are probably actually the only TRULY SUCCESSFUL Communists countries in the world, they actually did it right and created a Utopian Society.... The people are proud of their country, those who reside in the cities have jobs, food, homes and are provided with all of the things that they need to live and to support their families and those in the countryside also live decently on the land, usually laboring in traditional Vietnamese farming or fishing jobs and sonce that's how their country is, I do believe they don't mind rural living and actually prefer it to the life in the big cities. I gotta give them props, good job VIETNAM!!!!!!!

    • @thanhseven90
      @thanhseven90 Před 9 měsíci

    • @nsaviolis
      @nsaviolis Před 5 měsíci +2

      cuba too! although u.s. embargo keeps them poor 🇻🇳🇨🇺

    • @lanang2940
      @lanang2940 Před měsícem

      Cảm ơn bạn ❤ đến từ Việt Nam

  • @yollyy
    @yollyy Před 2 lety +7

    7:51 Yep, it's such a long time that he has the ability to hug and love his daughter. They haven't met each other for years .War keeps them apart🥺

    • @Hunginhvan-zh2yn
      @Hunginhvan-zh2yn Před 3 měsíci

      Đó ko phải con anh ấy đó là cô bé con của đối phương bị bỏ dơi

  • @James-eq8cq
    @James-eq8cq Před 2 lety +73

    Seeing those little kids crying on the ship makes me sad. it reminds me of that Hey Arnold episode. I didn't realize that it was historically relevant until I learned about Vietnam.

    • @RagnarNomad
      @RagnarNomad Před rokem +2

      The true horror was the years after this, when many South Vietnamese tried to escape to seek asylum and a way to the U.S (in Thailand, Singapore, Phillipines). They are called "boat people" and although there is no accurate statistic, it is estimated that around 2 millions of them perished on the sea surrounded South Vietnam, in the hand of pirates (killed, raped then throw out of their boat), to hunger and decease in the refugee camps if they managed to reach those forementioned countries.

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@RagnarNomad And when Vietnam was becoming more developed, they starts to slander the country they abandoned.

  • @taolaai123123
    @taolaai123123 Před 4 lety +109

    my oldest uncle was one of the NVA got blowed up into more then 100 pieces by bomb from US air fighter during the vietnamwar at the Ho Chi Minh Trail , and then few years later his wife got killed during the US B52 bombing HaNoi , i never see their face in my tire life...

  • @krustyclown2152
    @krustyclown2152 Před 2 lety +61

    Saigon's retreat was well organised compared to the shitshow that is Kabul right now, LOL. The US managed to lose to two groups of warriors fighting in sandals.

    • @sxi9852
      @sxi9852 Před 2 lety +2

      NORTH vietnamese very welcome westerner my man.Is just not Americans
      I mean in the past

    • @molotovtheholy2292
      @molotovtheholy2292 Před 2 lety +11

      North Vietnam was not hostile to any western countries, it only hostiled to foreign forces which stopped them from unify the nation - a wish that had been there since the start of French occupation. It portrayed in the war with China and Cambodia at the border of Vietnam 4 years after the war (1979). The fact that Swedish, Germans still had good contact with NV during the war. And now Vietnam considered the U.S to be its ally, because for 1000 years and until modern time, China has always been Vietnam biggest enemy.

    • @shinjimalfoyikari9069
      @shinjimalfoyikari9069 Před 2 lety +1

      @@molotovtheholy2292 Actually you got no idea how we have been struggling to normalize relation with the USA ever since the 1976

    • @shinjimalfoyikari9069
      @shinjimalfoyikari9069 Před 2 lety +1

      @反共 wtf

    • @shinjimalfoyikari9069
      @shinjimalfoyikari9069 Před 2 lety +1

      @反共 I don't speak alien sorry

  • @bossbonita1235
    @bossbonita1235 Před rokem +8

    Just seeing all those poor innocent kids makes me so sad considering what they’ve been through 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @hamidabrarkhan5129
    @hamidabrarkhan5129 Před 3 lety +101

    7:03
    That's why NVA won.

    • @thhdhn2
      @thhdhn2 Před 2 lety +6

      If nvm won, why not keep the communist system? You lost! Communist lost.

    • @hamidabrarkhan5129
      @hamidabrarkhan5129 Před 2 lety +66

      @@thhdhn2 Where have I supported communism here?
      I prefer NVA than the bloody imperialists of France and USA.

    • @milokhanh313
      @milokhanh313 Před 2 lety +53

      :))) communist of Vietnam still here , where's American in Afghan ???????

    • @Nhatanh0475
      @Nhatanh0475 Před 2 lety +23

      @@thhdhn2 Why there always an Internet jerk like you?
      Communist still exist and rise and we are the example of it.

    • @militaristaustrian
      @militaristaustrian Před 2 lety +4

      @@milokhanh313 oof this is a good one

  • @DinoCism
    @DinoCism Před 2 lety +53

    Probably the most deserved military victory in modern human history. I understand people's sympathy for those who feared the Communists, but under the South Vietnamese government they were the ones torturing, murdering and turning in their neighbours to the police. It's hypocritical to only value a Vietnamese life when they aren't a "communist." Ultimately these people chose America over an indigenous national liberation movement that had fought for Vietnam's sovereignty against the Japanese and the French before that. They must be among the most committed people in any army there's ever been. Simply put: they wanted it more because it was theirs.It's also an impressively orderly victory in which no pointless massacres or chaos occurred. You can tell that it was important to them not to tarnish something so many of their people had died for and the discipline was real.

    • @kittycatwithinternetaccess2356
      @kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Před 2 lety +5

      Communists did the exact same thing

    • @agoodchow
      @agoodchow Před 2 lety +7

      As outsider, I agree in general of your view. North Vietnam was leading to fight for Vietnam sovereignty and independency with utter determination regardless of cost and lives.

    • @tinhhoangvan9327
      @tinhhoangvan9327 Před rokem +1

      ​@@agoodchow respect NVN too

    • @captainkyperplayz1162
      @captainkyperplayz1162 Před 9 měsíci

      The communists sent a bunch of people to camps afterwards

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 But at least they fought for the Vietnamese, not for outsiders.

  • @johncedrickgamutan2117
    @johncedrickgamutan2117 Před rokem +24

    God Bless Vietnam 🇻🇳😘
    From 🇵🇭

  • @christopheklinger3217
    @christopheklinger3217 Před 10 měsíci +6

    The truth is the Vietnamese liberated themselves from the colonialists

  • @DuyNguyen-ve4ks
    @DuyNguyen-ve4ks Před 2 lety +85

    After decades of civil and military involvement in South Vietnam, the fall of Saigon and South Vietnam was a national humiliation for the United States. Quite right, too. The U.S. war in Vietnam was thoroughly unjustified.

    • @tedmccarron
      @tedmccarron Před rokem +10

      The Communist war against the Vietnamese people was totally unjustified. The United States went there to assist the Vietnamese people in fighting the Communists. When the Communists took over nearly 3 million Vietnamese fled the country, the largest Exodus in Southeast Asian history.

    • @dannyzero692
      @dannyzero692 Před rokem +17

      @@tedmccarron there might be an alternate reality where Vietnamese could've became like South Korea and West Germany but we live in this reality and I'm glad that the Vietnamese people got what they wanted which was unification, I don't like communists nor do I like capitalists both are bad if taken too far.
      The United States intervene in Vietnam's internal matters which was liberation from the French and created South Vietnam, they should've never been there in the first place. All the Vietnamese families who suffered from Agent Orange, members with PTSD, being cut down my machine gun fire and all the Americans who were shunned for fighting in a war that they never wanted to be in. The Vietnam War was a tragedy before it even started.
      Now that Vietnam is unified, the people are happy that they that they themselves didn't ended up like Korea and inequality was kept to a minimal by the state. They still have a long way to go, but this is still better than stuck fighting a war that never ends.

    • @guillegui6487
      @guillegui6487 Před rokem +15

      @@tedmccarron military industrial complex propaganda for breakfast?

    • @tedmccarron
      @tedmccarron Před rokem

      @@dannyzero692 the Vietnamese people didn't "get what they wanted," they got totalitarian communism and lost all their rights by an evil army and government that FORCED it on them. North Vietnam invaded three countries that just wanted to be left alone. Unification is nice but freedom is much more important than unification. To be unified under slavery, mass murder and Terror is not a good thing at all and only an idiot would be in favor of it. Korea is at least half free and the other half is a totalitarian nightmare. I'm sure you would want to see them Unified under North Korean rule so that millions of innocent Koreans could die. That's not a happy outcome, that's a nightmare.

    • @divinesan7786
      @divinesan7786 Před rokem

      @@tedmccarron bruh, there would be a election for reunification of Vietnam after Geneve but the CIA had to stick their nose in so nope, US didn’t help, they created more killing. People who fled where associated with the Saigon government or US personal.

  • @littledonkey8901
    @littledonkey8901 Před 5 lety +77

    vietnamese speak good english!

  • @HalimWander
    @HalimWander Před 10 měsíci +3

    one thing i notice from 75 to these days..the city full of trees ! so beautiful..glad im visited this beautiful country..

  • @alienlatino2945
    @alienlatino2945 Před rokem +6

    When I was born in 1972 in El Salvador (Central America) my Mom says that my Dad came into the hospital room and the first thing he did was picked me up and looked at the soles of feet, he then jokingly said; "That's my boy, he is not flat-footed, he can go fight in Vietnam when he turns 19". The war as on the news of all newspapers in the world.

  • @randelealcoranarcilla642
    @randelealcoranarcilla642 Před 5 lety +35

    These Vietnamese War Refugees were held in the Philippines since 1975 to 1992 in Palawan and Bataan. As the current, many Vietnamese Refugees was now at Viet Ville Restaurant in Puerto Princesa City was start of our business after the Vietnam War and held us for the saving difference.

    • @nguyenn99527
      @nguyenn99527 Před 5 lety +2

      you look like a spy vietcong dawg

    • @PeterNgola
      @PeterNgola Před 3 lety +10

      @@nguyenn99527 You sound like a moron " dawg"

    • @Nhatanh0475
      @Nhatanh0475 Před 2 lety +13

      I from Vietnam Communist and I think that good. Thanks Philippines for helping those in need and help them get a better life.

    • @ireallycant4416
      @ireallycant4416 Před 2 lety

      @@nguyenn99527 haleluya brother

  • @dennyt7475
    @dennyt7475 Před rokem +50

    I was 17 years old when I got to Vietnam-1966 through 1969 (My mom had to sign a waiver for me), I grew up fast and learned a lot, good and bad. (I am now 73 and still learning). I was stationed on the USS Providence and also stationed in Country at a place called "Monkey Mountain" close to DaNang,. I spent 3 tours of duty in and around Vietnam. 3 of my high school friends were killed in Vietnam, I was spared. I participated in the TET Offensive in Feb 1968, that was bad. Somewhere along the way I was exposed to Agent Orange (Nasty Stuff) I am now on disability for the effects of agent orange. When I was discharged and came home to the States we arrived in San Francisco, and there were a lot of protesters spitting on us and throwing rocks and eggs and called us baby killers. That was our welcome home. I tell you this to say to you, that whatever your position is or was on the Vietnam war, it was not the veteran who got us into the war, most of us went because we were patriots and loved our country. Blame the politicians, yes, but not the veteran. To all Vietnam Vets out there, you are not forgotten. As a previous combat Vet myself, I salute you my friend.

    • @thornil2231
      @thornil2231 Před rokem

      you are disgusting.

    • @phuongthaodoan3531
      @phuongthaodoan3531 Před rokem +1

      I guess now to avoid those attrocities being victims of war, people must consider what does this mean being patriots ? , if it can be easily manipulated by lies from our own politicians to get us into war after war, endless wars policy. If i may say, after Vietnam war, US copied the "Vietnam all over again" to Iraq, Afga, Yugoslovia, Serbia,...and many indirect wars, now the rhetoric of Ukraine war. Talking about US intervention to foreign countries, i remember history of US came to Philippines, senator of the US wrote at the time " it was true that the rulers of philippines oppressed and killed its people, but once we came in to liberate those poor people, the number of philippinos we killed in 2 months even more than what they have been killing during 13 years". At the end, i think being patriots meant to love, be loyal to your own country, to your people AND also to love and treat other people in other countries the same way as your people not your enemy, Once we take arms come all a long way to other countries to kill others, we have to ask ourselves what the outcome of killing others and who benefit it ?

    • @thecoffiehigh
      @thecoffiehigh Před rokem

      No one told you to go fight... You should be mad at the government you have all the pride in the world only to be shitted on from the government

    • @Ducthienmc
      @Ducthienmc Před rokem +4

      As a Vietnamese, I understand that very well, we don't blame the American soldier who was young and did not know much at that time. I born in Hanoi, my granddad is a Veteran too, he's fought the France, manage to save a whole squadron, and I think he was bad ass enough because later he got caught the France sent him on an island prison Côn Đảo (very far away). Luckily he survived and still live well, he is 94 years old right now😂

    • @ronahue1946
      @ronahue1946 Před 7 měsíci

      I was on a ship headed for cold weather training at Mt. Fuji when the gulf of Ton kin incident happened our ships took a left turn and we spent nearly 3 months floating off shore... Later on land for 13 months.
      What younger people don't think about is that we were born (1946) in the shadow of the WWII veterans, all the big parades on many holidays and just the way the country felt about veterans in the 50s.
      I remember thinking (also at 17) that if there was a war maybe we could become something to be proud of as well.

  • @shivaramabharadwaja2234
    @shivaramabharadwaja2234 Před rokem +53

    Huge respects for viet people

  • @crude223
    @crude223 Před 2 lety +26

    Sadly this very difficult lesson had to be repeated a second time 🇦🇫

    • @cindywelch2108
      @cindywelch2108 Před 2 lety +13

      We never learn. We should have never been in Vietnam nor Afghanistan

    • @agarlicsorbet6482
      @agarlicsorbet6482 Před rokem

      North Vietnam was not a reactionary religious extremests like Talies. How US during Soviet-Afghan war mainly aided Hekmatyar, who eventually ended up cheering for Al Qaeda and Taliban who were arch nemesis to his own Mujahedeens, instead of more nuanced and revolutionary Ahmad Shah Masoud, shows you how dumb and clueless US foreign intervention tactic is. The louder one to shout "commies are bad" gets US dollars.

  • @yollyy
    @yollyy Před 2 lety +103

    It is 30/4/2022 today and I am here - to review these scenes. I would like to say I strongly love and am grateful for people fighting for peace and harmony - Vietnamese heroes. Thank you - Communist Armies.Thank you for your patience; moreover, thank you for your noble sacrifice.Oh my love, oh my pride 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

    • @partyvietnamcommunist4829
      @partyvietnamcommunist4829 Před rokem +11

      @@ThangLe-ch3oj Who cares dark side??? All the South Vietnamese use strong weapon and also have USA for the economy, and Saigon people cheers for communist

    • @tedmccarron
      @tedmccarron Před rokem

      Only a piece of shit communist with no respect for human rights would applaud the Communist takeover of South vietnam. When the Communists took over they not only killed in the prison many innocent people but they took away the rights of all vietnamese. When they took over the Vietnamese people lost their freedom of speech, freedom of religion, Democratic political process, freedom of assembly and freedom of the press. All their rights were taken away and they delved into a Soviet style nightmare state. It was like the east side of the Berlin wall. Nearly 3 million of them fled the country which made it the largest accidents in Southeast Asian history. Only a total control free would be happy about something like that.

    • @ManhIMT6789
      @ManhIMT6789 Před 19 dny

      ❤❤

  • @VNExperience
    @VNExperience Před 2 lety +15

    It's amazing how the city has changed but you still know where everything is

  • @holtridge7337
    @holtridge7337 Před rokem +31

    The last American helicopter landed at 8:06 AM atop the American Embassy. There were 11 American Marines that got aboard. Juan Valdez was the last to get on the helicopter. Unlike other reports Ambassador Graham Martin was not the last American to leave Saigon.

    • @sandcastle1417
      @sandcastle1417 Před rokem +6

      Because they wouldn't dare give any credit to the Hispanic marine... Especially in those times smh

    • @holtridge7337
      @holtridge7337 Před 10 měsíci +3

      @sandcastle1417 Exactly and that is a total shame.

    • @ronahue1946
      @ronahue1946 Před 7 měsíci

      Yeah and they actually had forgotten those last marines for a time.

  • @j.p.holiday8899
    @j.p.holiday8899 Před 8 měsíci +3

    And now we're allowed to visit Vietnam and they treat us kindly. That's an amazing people.

  • @MrPennywise1540
    @MrPennywise1540 Před 4 lety +9

    Video at the beginning don't belong to US Embassy, but a hotel in Saigon.

  • @DungTran-mw1fg
    @DungTran-mw1fg Před rokem +88

    My uncle had been in the army marching for half a year to go to the South for liberation, now he is an average 2/4 wounded and still has 4 shrapnel in his lungs, he has 4 children, the latter 2 are infected with Agent Orange. Uncle lost a close friend from the same neighborhood when he joined the army that year, that close friend has not been found until now.

    • @borger99
      @borger99 Před rokem +1

      got wrecked

    • @David-vt3hn
      @David-vt3hn Před rokem

      Agent Orange. Is that a Orange Grove plantation in Florida?

    • @anthonyr5869
      @anthonyr5869 Před rokem

      Good

    • @ancan963
      @ancan963 Před rokem

      @@David-vt3hn no, it's chemical warfare that the US used on Vietnamese fighters. It causes genetic defects even in latter generation.

    • @hrvatskicetnik
      @hrvatskicetnik Před rokem

      ​@@David-vt3hn no

  • @AndySandyBe
    @AndySandyBe Před 2 lety +2

    Thank you for these extraordinary footages

  • @joonnm1
    @joonnm1 Před rokem +9

    Vietnamese love peace! But history is too fierce for our country. We fight because we must to fight! For independence! For our people!
    Long live Vietnam!
    Long live HoChiMinh!

    • @ManhIMT6789
      @ManhIMT6789 Před 19 dny

      Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp Muôn Năm!

  • @288skp
    @288skp Před 3 lety +24

    The Vietnamese fought the Japanese, then the French, and the Americans. They won all the wars against colonialists and invaders. Why Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon fought them - only they could answer, or at least try to.

    • @thhdhn2
      @thhdhn2 Před 2 lety +2

      You Mean the Russian, Chinese, and north Viet Nam

    • @vinhtri8918
      @vinhtri8918 Před 2 lety +6

      @@thhdhn2 lol :)) ya ain't know sh,t
      They just support weapon for us

    • @robertreynolds580
      @robertreynolds580 Před 2 lety +7

      You missed the Chinese...they invaded after the Americans.

    • @RC-ky4lf
      @RC-ky4lf Před 2 lety +4

      @@robertreynolds580 and before too, a lot.

    • @boarzwid1002
      @boarzwid1002 Před 2 lety +2

      Kennedy didn’t he was gonna pull out in 1964 and then got killed SF told him we won’t win then Johnson fubar everything , as Democrats Do

  • @luckycharm1
    @luckycharm1 Před 3 lety +128

    HCM never wanted war. He wanted peace for his country only. When no one listens and you’ve been betrayed then you take action. Some say worthless war and I’m sure HCM would agree because he tried to avoid it from the beginning. It was just a proxy war and the Vietnamese and surrounding countries suffered because of it.

    • @longdangphi7765
      @longdangphi7765 Před 2 lety +13

      bạn là người có đánh giá rất chuẩn xác, chính xác nhất trong các commend. bạn là người hiểu mục đích của người Mỹ. xin cảm ơn.

    • @bourbon369
      @bourbon369 Před 2 lety

      well done ! Redbull 🐄

    • @David-og7di
      @David-og7di Před 2 lety

      this is as close to a truth as you get when war happens.

    • @attorneyreel1181
      @attorneyreel1181 Před 2 lety +3

      You are SO WRONG--HCM was a dedicated bloodthirsty Communist, educated in Marxism in Paris in the post WWI period, and later in Communist imperialism in the USSR. He cared nothing for the loss of life if it served his Russian Communist masters and led to the reunification if North and South Vietnam at the point of a gun.

    • @nail_gunk0841
      @nail_gunk0841 Před 2 lety +1

      @@attorneyreel1181 you’re from /pol/?

  • @lanang2940
    @lanang2940 Před měsícem +1

    Đây mới là phim tài liệu về chiến tranh ở Việt Nam chân thật nhất, đúng đắn nhất, thế hiện đúng bản chất vấn đề về chiến tranh Việt Nam. Cảm ơn kênh youtube của bạn đã phản ánh đúng sự thật ❤🇻🇳 đến từ Việt Nam.

  • @joe_chill1060
    @joe_chill1060 Před 5 lety +123

    BLAME THE POLITICIANS, NOT THE SOLDIERS!

    • @Oline1756
      @Oline1756 Před 3 lety +16

      That’s right.
      Both Capitalist and communist soldiers are brave.

    • @joe_chill1060
      @joe_chill1060 Před 3 lety +9

      @@Oline1756 Exactally, and many gave the ultimate sacrifice

    • @Oline1756
      @Oline1756 Před 3 lety +7

      Joe_Chill That’s right.
      The politicians are the problem

    • @upstreamtoast3512
      @upstreamtoast3512 Před 3 lety +3

      Except the nazi officers who like to torture people

    • @joe_chill1060
      @joe_chill1060 Před 3 lety +1

      @@upstreamtoast3512 True

  • @snowblazed3442
    @snowblazed3442 Před 2 lety +13

    Good to know that the CZcams algorithm is keeping abreast of the global geopolitics :)

  • @phillipwombacher9635
    @phillipwombacher9635 Před 9 měsíci +4

    This warms my heart to see Maos philosophy of the protracted people’s war producing wildly successful results Vietnams style of socialism is my personal favorite and I think today the most adherent to Marxist principles

  • @OnionIlan
    @OnionIlan Před 3 měsíci +5

    Respect from Indonesia 🇮🇩🤝🇻🇳

  • @pylgrym
    @pylgrym Před rokem +8

    As a repentant combat veteran of that conflict, a desire for closure brought me here

  • @Ghost0fPakistan
    @Ghost0fPakistan Před 2 lety +58

    And here we are witnessing the fall of Kabul.

  • @nadindakirana5650
    @nadindakirana5650 Před rokem +1

    7:04 OMG it's really a relief that's a sentence that I always wait for every time a battle is over

  • @tonyc.4392
    @tonyc.4392 Před 2 lety +6

    I had no idea the fall of Saigon itself was this bloodless. The only casualties of that event seemed to be self-inflicted. Years from now, will the fall of Kabul be looked upon similarly?

  • @nangtamtritue
    @nangtamtritue Před 2 lety +100

    Our country regained its independence from the hands of Americans and their henchmen. We are the whole country, not just "North Vietnam", but include forces in the South.
    The truth is that without the war on the Southwest border, the Northern border and the US embargo (until 1995), our country would have been much more developed.
    We have continued the tradition of driving out the foreigners.
    We saved the Cambodian people from genocide from Ponpot. But the world still owes Vietnam an apology and an acknowledgment of the historical values ​​we bring to world peace.
    Because we have gained independence since 1945, repelled the French colonialists in 1954. Because of that, colonial countries around the world have carried out revolutions to gain independence.
    Be careful, events in the Taliban and Vietnam may be similar in some ways. But the nature and origin of the two forces are completely different.
    This is the internet age, be careful when comparing and judging.

    • @terrenceescarda8951
      @terrenceescarda8951 Před rokem +1

      Do I give a damn?

    • @yoinks9907
      @yoinks9907 Před rokem +13

      @@terrenceescarda8951 u should

    • @sanich0811
      @sanich0811 Před rokem +7

      Commie fantasies, lol.

    • @melelconquistador
      @melelconquistador Před rokem +19

      Congratulations for your independence.
      May more revolutions liberate the world from emperialism and capitalism.

    • @terrenceescarda8951
      @terrenceescarda8951 Před rokem +7

      "What is independence if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?" - Jose Rizal

  • @jagdpanther2224
    @jagdpanther2224 Před 3 lety +21

    10:56 I didn't know the statues were so big!

  • @liemvo5706
    @liemvo5706 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Cám ơn Anh Quỳnh có công sưu tầm và phổ biến.

  • @albowman6852
    @albowman6852 Před rokem +7

    Great historical presentation. I was 16 years old watching this all on TV. Of course like always, We The People were lied to. Like non stop for over 10 years. Nice work!

    • @salvadorvizcarra769
      @salvadorvizcarra769 Před rokem

      What? Did the US lose the war against Nam? OMG! Against a poor rural country, undeveloped, malnourished, without Navy, without Air Force, NO Marines, Green Berets, SEALs, Rangers, Delta Force, USMC, Rambos or Chuck Norris. Defeated by a country of peasants without strategic plans, no B-59 Bombers, PT-Boats, no Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter", nor Atomic Submarines. Without Aircraft Carriers, NO Continental Missiles, nor Tanks, Choppters, AR-15, Gatlin Machines’, Flamethrowers, Napalm, Agent Orange. NADA! And to top it off, defeated by an army of teenagers who had no shoes: WITHOUT SHOES!!! Army that fought with bamboo sticks!!! Charlie Kicked Our Asses and even invaded our Embassy. Jeezzz!!! Here is the Duty, Courage and Chanting of Heroism of the US Army. This is the True Story of our Country. This is the History that is already written in the US Books. And the History that was written in Afghanistan is made with the same ink. What a Great "Glory" and yet, we want ANOTHER war in Ukraine...

  • @jonathanjuntilla1692
    @jonathanjuntilla1692 Před 3 lety +26

    Every country deserve an INDEPENDENCE

    • @leisureclub_
      @leisureclub_ Před 2 lety +4

      from USA xD American Democracy... lol

    • @SwedishEmpire1700
      @SwedishEmpire1700 Před 2 lety +1

      ​@@leisureclub_ Also from Red Star communism LOL

    • @PershingOfficial
      @PershingOfficial Před 2 lety

      what does this have to do with the video?

    • @waterheaterservices
      @waterheaterservices Před 2 lety

      We will need to liberate glorious revolutionary humanist socialist people's California from The Party.

    • @destructo6745
      @destructo6745 Před 2 lety +3

      How about the South Vietnamese?

  • @karimsalimsharif5074
    @karimsalimsharif5074 Před 2 lety +22

    Long Live Unified Vietnam...I felt greatly happy to learn North Vietnam was finally able to take South Vietnam on April 30 , 1975...
    I was also mighty relieved to see the US finally pulling out of Vietnam in 1973 - without the least Pride...!!!
    LONG LIVE VIETNAM...
    LONG LIVE VIETNAM's LEADERSHIP...!!!

  • @foxharken
    @foxharken Před 9 měsíci +2

    Not correct. This last helicopter in the video opening took off from the C.I.A. Headquarter roof. At that time the US embassy was already evacuated. I've been in Ho Chi Minh city (Formerly Saigon). I took a picture of this building and my guide explained me those facts.

  • @cuthomas4664
    @cuthomas4664 Před rokem +10

    Correction: the last evacuation helicopter didn't take off from the US Embassy but another nearby departure point a civil house rooftop that still exists today

  • @Sokx41
    @Sokx41 Před 2 lety +26

    I may have commented before but I was on the last U.S. commercial air carrier, Pan Am, into Saigon. The commercial aspect of the flight ended at Clark AFB in the Philippines (or was it Guam--it has been over 40 years), but those passengers on board were allowed to continue into Saigon with an understanding that there was no guaranteed flights back out of Vietnam. I boarded in Honolulu; others had boarded in the mainland U.S., most all of us seeking to get relatives out of Vietnam before the end (or what historians might consider the beginning). We landed at Tan Son Nhat AFB/Saigon International Airport on Tuesday and I flew out on Thursday, with the fall of Saigon occurring on Sunday or Monday. I was able to get all of my then wife's family out plus a young man and woman that I was told were cousins, but in fact they were the children of a high-ranking officer. I didn't learn of the truth for several decade later. I myself did not experience any anxiety and the scene at the airport where I stayed for a day and a half was very calm and quiet. That changed just two days later.

    • @Sokx41
      @Sokx41 Před 2 lety +4

      I should say that at the time this was happening, I was a Ph.D. Candidate (Geography) at University of Hawaii, and was fluent in Vietnamese, and already had written a M.A. thesis about ancient Champa, a "kingdom" that prevailed in Central Vietnam before the Vietnamese came southward. I things had not panned out for the rescue of my inlaws, I was mentally prepared to stay in Saigon for weeks or months.

  • @finddeniro
    @finddeniro Před 3 lety +4

    I met one the Last U .S. Army out of there. .He walks like he is Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown. Leon means Lion. .

  • @hoanghai2k
    @hoanghai2k Před 2 lety +16

    I found something similar here:
    Saigon 30/04: 30 x 4 = 120
    Kabul 15/08 : 15 x 8 = 120
    Maybe the number 120 is not good for US

  • @teejay5295
    @teejay5295 Před měsícem +2

    A couple of facts: it's known as the American War in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City is Ho Chin Minh City in Vietnam and NOT Saigon. A must visit is the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City and see how war is a futile exercise in the destruction of humanity, especially towards the Vietnamese who suffered and still suffer from the atrocities performed by the US during this despicable period.

  • @thejtd21
    @thejtd21 Před 2 lety +20

    This will be Kabul but with less hardware and provisional government

  • @renaj9206
    @renaj9206 Před 3 lety +40

    I can't imagine being next for the helicopter and watching it take off.

    • @belgian_waffle9733
      @belgian_waffle9733 Před 3 lety

      I can imagine that feeling so well.

    • @belgian_waffle9733
      @belgian_waffle9733 Před 3 lety +12

      But thean again i would probably welcome my comrades instead of trying to flee

    • @globalaide49
      @globalaide49 Před 3 lety +3

      @@belgian_waffle9733 Bullshit! You don't know what you would do.

    • @farzanamughal5933
      @farzanamughal5933 Před 3 lety

      Like Mark Corehgan

    • @michaelbee2165
      @michaelbee2165 Před 2 lety +1

      @@belgian_waffle9733 Lol!! As if you've EVER been in such a predicament.

  • @azt69boyz72
    @azt69boyz72 Před rokem +3

    Courage and perseverance unparalleled and unprecedented.

  • @bidenadministrationischina5091

    Thank everyone else. It's the people who searched for this that brought it out to your feeds.

  • @matomemodiba8569
    @matomemodiba8569 Před 2 lety +39

    The events in Kabul over the past few weeks felt like a serious repeat of this event.

  • @pistachiocracker4477
    @pistachiocracker4477 Před 2 lety +19

    Please learn from history, Afghanistan is facing a similar situation. Pray for Afghanistan 🇦🇫 and it’s future without an oppressive Taliban regime.

    • @UtenZork
      @UtenZork Před 2 lety +2

      The most important thing is that Afghanistan has no more communism, it doesn't matter that now is controlled by some blood-thirsty Islamic regime.

    • @pistachiocracker4477
      @pistachiocracker4477 Před 2 lety +2

      @@UtenZork um yes it does. Trading one evil for another doesn’t make it better at all.

    • @jake8855
      @jake8855 Před 2 lety

      Are prayers plan B when the 20 year war didn't work?

    • @user-wq9mw2xz3j
      @user-wq9mw2xz3j Před 2 lety

      not an evil, and have yet to show themselves being oppressive. They've done nothing of such till now. Don't look at how they were 25 years ago

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 Před 5 měsíci

      They are not the same. PAVN and NLF are heroes and protectors.

  • @notarmchairhistorian7779
    @notarmchairhistorian7779 Před 2 lety +14

    Man. This happening like in repeat right now. Its so surreal. In a few days it'll be the afghan humvees and blackhawks that will be left abandoned too!

  • @Jekalmat
    @Jekalmat Před rokem +5

    Kudos to old school journalism to reporting facts rather than a narrative. We are badly missing this today.

    • @richardnixon2445
      @richardnixon2445 Před rokem

      They're aren't reporting the facts tho
      In fact in 3:25 they state that a PAVN tank was a ARVN tank

    • @AlexTrevelyan
      @AlexTrevelyan Před 10 měsíci

      @@richardnixon2445 The lack of tank pedants in the journalism corps as the capital falls and people are scrambling to leave is a staggering indictment of their lack of fact telling. You actually thought this a good point?

  • @justonemori
    @justonemori Před 2 lety +16

    My dad was in a USA boot camp at this moment. They didn't hear about it until after their graduation ceremony several weeks later.

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 Před 2 lety +2

      @Mr. Sanke Y’know, the South almost survived, but we cut funding to its military, then they lost.

    • @thegodfather768
      @thegodfather768 Před 2 lety

      @@capncake8837 why would they do something stupid

    • @thethirdman225
      @thethirdman225 Před rokem +2

      @@capncake8837 The South was never going to survive, American help or not.

    • @HieuNguyen-pr8mj
      @HieuNguyen-pr8mj Před rokem +2

      @@capncake8837 the South lost because they were shitty at fighting, when the NVA found the US supplies for the South inside Long Binh Post in 1975, there were still more than enough weapons and equipments for us to fight 2 more wars with the Khmer Rogue in 1979 & Chinese (1979-1989), even some of them lasted till these days