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Every Vietnamese house is a shrine, for as soon as you enter the living room, you see a large altar, though it's shrinking with each passing year. What they're worshipping, above all, are their ancestors. Vietnamese revere their own past. What irony, then, that many Vietnamese were momentarily tricked into fighting for a Party that was militant in eradicating the past, with the promise of a Utopian future.

During the Vietnam War, most Vietnamese on both sides simply fought for Vietnam. The nationalistic propaganda from both the Hanoi and Saigon governments reflects this reality.



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