Post-Nam Vietnam

[Pete]

What happened after the defeat of the Americans? I know that the yanks would hide there shame and stop discussing this nation, but what happened to it during the last 40 years? What is it doing now? I doubt we can disregard it as 'subdued.' Is Ho Chi Minh's legacy still strong?

[chamo]

The most I can offer from my knowledge is that they've started letting tourists in for the past few years and the communist system hardly exists.

Rural Vietnam is devestated after the war. The countryside is still riddled with land mines left unmarked and unrecorded by the Americans and the Khmer Rouge as well as the Vietcong. The casualties caused by the mines are horrific, in both injury and scale and the health service is under constant strain from patients with legs blown off. This means the people can't get to their fields to work, or aren't allowed and this keeps the agricultural sector in constant poverty.

(Edited by happyguy at 10:28 pm on Mar. 31, 2003)

[Iepilei]

there was a .vn website I found a few weeks ago which covered all the major projects elected by the board of industry and various other peoples organisations. It was very interesting.

If I can locate it again, I'll post a link here. But I think it shows that to a lesser extend, Vietnam is still trying to keep true to it's roots.

[Xvall]

It's kind of socialistic. But in the way it's headed; it probably won't be any more socialistic than Canada. I do not like the economic-revisionism going on in Vietnam. However, the party claims to still represent communism and has adopted a policy of democratic centralism.

[chamo]

Here (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/vm.html) is some information from the bastard CIA world factbook.

Economy Overview (http://www.asiaondemand.com/money/economics/vietnam.htm)

[Pete]

Thank you!

[Iepilei]

well the remaining five are experiencing some difficulty being the few socialist nations in a capitalists world - so their transitions have come from desperate measures.

[thursday night]

You can email the Vietnammese embassy in Washinton DC for a free brochure about the socialist state. I think the socialist movement should be in solidarity with the Vietnammese people as they struggle to build a new society.

[Pete]

I'll do that, except with the Canadian one ;)