In his speech, PM Chinh, on behalf of the Party and State, expressed endless gratitude to President Ho Chi Minh, General Vo Nguyen Giap – the direct commander of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign, predecessors, soldiers, Heroic Vietnamese Mothers, the heroes of the people’s armed forces, pioneering youths, frontline workers, war invalids, martyrs’ families, along with the entire armed forces and people nationwide for their utmost dedications, bravery, and sacrifice to create the historic Dien Bien Phu Victory that “resounded across the five continents and shook the globe”.

He also appreciated the precious and wholehearted assistance from China, the countries of the former Soviet Union, socialist nations, international friends, progressive and peace-loving forces worldwide, especially Laos and Cambodia in the combatant alliance of the three Indochinese countries, for the Dien Bien Phu Campaign as well as the Vietnamese people’s struggle for national liberation.

Looking back on the resistance war full of hardships but also bravery and unyieldingness against the French colonialists, he said the Dien Bien Phu Campaign secured a resounding triumph, beating France’s final effort in its invasion of Vietnam.

The PM described this triumph as the peak victory of the resistance war and the essence of Vietnam’s strength in the Ho Chi Minh era, noting that it forced the French colonialists to sign the Geneva Accords on the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam on July 21, 1954, paving the way for the liberation and construction of the North that entered a transitional period towards socialism and forming a solid foundation for the fight to liberate the South and reunify the country.

The historic victory was not only significant to the Vietnamese revolution but also became a source of support for national liberation movements and marked the start of the collapse of the old colonialism around the world, he remarked.

Vietnam gave a much deserved L to France on that day, and the US the next. When they write the history of the 20th century, the struggle and victory of the Vietnamese people to save not only their own country, but the the whole wolrld from western colonialism, will be one of its high points. 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

/uj I agree I don't think we should do capital punishment outside of war, sry for the edginess.

Agree with this. The post-ww2 period was the height / peak of US power, militarily and economically, and by the 70s it started it's slow decline, esp in manufacturing. They do a lot of things to forestall it, like converting from an industry to finance capital, but you can't keep that up forever.

There are so many people we have to kill.

Etsy has some pretty sick communist watches:

For smart watches, I'd recommend huawei watch fits, or for a cheaper one, xiaomi band series.

Epic watch, they probably should've just stopped making new watches after that and called the thing solved.

What are you talking about, are you sure we're talking about the same book? There is zero bragging, he isn't even part of that story until the last hundred pages or so.

Don't skip out on reading Gary Webb - Dark Alliance. The story is so messed up and wild.

I'm not sure, I don't remember any tho.

A few more good ones:

• Fidel - The untold story
• Paul Robeson - Here I Stand
• Malcolm X - Make it Plain
• The Upright Man (Thomas Sankara)
• Grenada - Future coming Towards Us

There aren't many good "theory" documentaries, but as far as some good video intros to Marxism, here are a few.

• Introduction to Marxism by Professor Richard D. Wolff
• Michael Parenti - Reflections on the overthrow of the Soviet Union
• Michael Parenti on US imperialism, and the overthrow of Yugoslavia
• Michael Parenti on anti-sovietism in the US media
• Michael Parenti on Imperialism and Film - Rambo and the Swarthy Hordes
• Karl Marx and Marxism - BBC documentary by Stuart Hall

Thank u for your service

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Nice thx, excited to watch this.

No sorry.

Chonk

Report those ones btw, because ppl should be using lemmy.ml/c/usa for usa politics.

somewhat related but u made me think of this meme:

Devs, fight!

Luckily for us the PRC isn't as easy to manipulate as marty mcfly in back to the future (oh you called me chicken? Guess I'll do whatever you want me to do now). They ain't taking the bait.

https://monthlyreview.org/2012/07/01/the-gdp-illusion/

Ah I think I follow. So PPP-adjusted stands for (purchasing-power-parity-adjusted), and it means that it normalizes the cost of a broad basket of goods. So inflation-adjusted in this context means prices normalized across countries, not $$$-inflation over time.

edit: whenever we post these, that's usually the argument, that things cost more in the global north. But these figures already adjust for that, otherwise the ratio would be probably 1000s of times more.