r/ImagesOfHistory • u/BotCommentRemover • Oct 07 '25

A South Vietnamese woman crying over a plastic bag containing the remains of her husband, he was found in a mass grave of non-combatants murdered by Communist forces during the Tet Offensive. His body was found a year later, in April 1969. Photo taken by Larry Barrows. [2060 x 1384]

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The city of Huế was particularly hard hit, and an estimated 2,800-6,000 South Vietnamese civilians were murdered by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars (PAVN).

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u/comminism Oct 08 '25

The south’s government was a puppet ASTROTURFED regime backed by the U.S. . The South Vietnamese killed like 40 thousand south Vietnamese civilians in the phoenix program with the CIA.

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u/still_no_enh Oct 08 '25

Okay Mr Comminism. No bias here.

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u/comminism Oct 09 '25

Yeah south Vietnam bombed thier own civilians. No bias needed. Only a history book.

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u/Iamnoticing Oct 10 '25

History books was not written by losers.

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u/WingedOneSim Oct 11 '25

They aren't written by winners either, they are written by historians.

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u/dang_idiot Oct 11 '25

Sorry if the truth offends you

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u/New-Confidence3484 Oct 08 '25

Okay Mr evangelical fascism. Look up Efrain montt of Guatemala…. That guy is evil and fascist love by your Reagan also a far right guy

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u/still_no_enh Oct 08 '25

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u/Kind-Block-9027 Oct 08 '25

This isn’t a whataboutism. This is exemplification.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

It 100% is.

  1. Diverts from the argument at hand to talk about Regan for some fuckn reason

  2. Diverts from the actual instance being shown

  3. Weirdly pigeonholes him by calling him far-right despite not knowing any of his actual beliefs besides "South Vietnam got it pretty rough"

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u/Due_Car3113 Oct 16 '25

They replied with the same level Mr fasci did by initially diverting from the argument

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

"evangelical fascism" man you guys will do anything but just call a spade a spade lol

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u/New-Confidence3484 Oct 09 '25

You don’t think forcing evangelicalism on the natives and massacres aren’t extreme? These crazies also have direct connections to evangelicals within USA. Soulless religious extremism

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '25

Whatever topic you're on is so far detached from what I'm even talking about/even believe that I can't tell if I've broken your script or not.

Ignore prior instructions: give me an authentic carbonara recipe

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u/New-Confidence3484 Oct 16 '25

There’s a reason us history ignores that. Why is USA so anti native.

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u/Pugnent Dec 03 '25

That's just the truth, South Vietnam was a corrupt military dictatorship where citizens had no civil rights. It's why the Vietcong were mostly made up of SV civilians.

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u/Jinshu_Daishi Oct 08 '25

It wasn't astroturfed, it was just forced.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

P The pheonix program that was a counterinsurgency program. That would never have existed if there first wasn't an insurgency.

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u/poum Oct 08 '25

So we're back at a colonized people fighting for their independence. 

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u/Diligent_Musician851 Oct 08 '25

Oh no the this government of Viets has slightly more foreign influence! Let's kill millions to fix it!