Unhappy Anniversary: 50 Years Since the Fall of Saigon
1st May 2025
Fifty years is a long time. Most of the Vietnamese weren’t around back then, and to them it’s ancient history and the Communist Party and its “socialist-oriented market economy” is all they know. The bloodbaths are over.
To me, and I assume to most older Vietnamese who came to this country after the fall, and their descendants – it’s a sad reminder of an ignominious end to a long struggle against Communism. I’ve written about Vietnam many many times on this blog – in fact, it’s an entire category of posts numbering over a hundred, some of them personal including parts of my “A mind is a difficult thing to change” series.
Like the Chinese, they’re still Communists. They still have blood on their hands, and will accumulate gallons more, as the Chinese showed in Tiananmen Square.