"No other wars for national liberation were as fierce or caused as many losses as this war," Giap told The Associated Press in 2005 in one of his last known interviews with foreign media on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the former South Vietnamese capital."But we still fought because for Vietnam, nothing is more precious than independence and freedom," he said, repeating a famous quote by Ho Chi Minh.
The Vietnam War caused the deaths of somewhere between 900,000 and 2 million people. This was a brutal war of communist aggression and had nothing to do with freedom. The communist government of Vietnam did not liberate the South. There was no individual liberty or freedom anywhere in Vietnam after the war. Civil rights? Human rights? Nope, not much of that to be found in the re-education camps. The only Vietnamese who could exercise anything close to free choice were those in the politburo. The rest of the Vietnamese were just like those pitiful saps in other communist countries; tools to be used and cast aside for the needs of the state. Communism promises the Utopian fantasy of universal equality, but only provides a common level of suffering and misery inflicted on its subjects.
So long, Vo. Rot in Hell.
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