From Don Tran, on Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:25:07 GMT (in response to: Lies)
Yes, I think you are trying to poison the kid with your communism hatred. I sympathize with the loss of your family, but millions of Vietnamese families lost their relatives too. Communists just wanted to get control of power and to suppress people, that's why they started what they called "Independence war". In order for them to achieve their goal, they had to brain-wash north Vietnamese and south villagers that U.S. invaded the south, and people in the south lived miserably under U.S. control. But the truth was opposite. As I recalled, before 1975, South Vietnam was called by the world "The Pearl of Southeast Asia". Phuc, I hope this name makes some sense to you. South Vietnamese did very well before 1975. In your response, you wrote that: "...the people of the villages, farmers, who only wanted freedom..." was a joke. Nothing wrong with freedom before, and all Vietnamese (except north Vietnamese) had plenty of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of religions, freedom of press, freedom of moving around freely, freedom of farming our own land and selling our products, freedom of communication, and so on... After communists took over south Vietnam, how many kinds of "freedom" do you think we have ??? Can you name a few ? Can anyone help Phuc to name a few freedom that Vietnamese have after 1975 ? I just want to ask you some questions: Why did you leave Vietnam in the 80s ??? Did you leave Vietnam because you finally realized what's wrong with Communism ? Or did you leave Vietnam carrying a "mission" with you ? I'm interest in your answers and looking forward to them. Don Tran
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