At the same time, decades of determined lies and deception have hidden from view the very real atrocities committed CONSTANTLY, and with high level support and direction, by the Communists.
As one example, Cambodia fell in large measure because we cut off assistance, and if memory serves because the Vietnamese communists lent them support (although they later had a falling out: people forget that the Vietnamese have long been oppressed by the Chinese, and had cultural differences). There, wires WERE routinely attached to testicles. There were houses where dozens of people were tortured to death EVERY DAY, for no reason other than that, as one example, they owned glasses and were thus viewed as “intellectual”. It was the reign of Satan on earth. Nothing crueler could be imagined.
But the war in Vietnam wasn’t much better. Let me excerpt “The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam” once more. WE MUST REMEMBER THESE THINGS.
About the Vietcong record of terror in South Vietnam there can also be little dispute, because the facts are too well established. Since 1960, when the insurgency was first getting under way [this was compiled in November 1971], Communist terrorists have killed over 36,000 South Vietnamese civilians; they have kidnapped 54,000 [what fate awaits these people? Slavery? It seems likely].
The terror is not savagery for savagery’s sake. Neither is it the work of undisciplined soldiers, operating without instructions (as a unit of American soldiers did at My Lai). On the contrary, it is a deliberate policy, conceived at the highest level and communicated in detailed directives to Vietcong units at all levels. . .
Organized terror–of a ruthlessness and on a scale that defies civilized comprehension–has been a cardinal aspect of Communist policy from the very first day of the Vietcong insurgency. By and large the Western world knows of only a few of the more massive and gruesome terrorist incidents–like the massacre that took place in the Montagnard village of Dak Son in November 1967, when the Vietcong attacking with flamethrowers, moved from hut to hut, incinerating alive more than 250 villagers, two thirds of them women and children. In addition, 200 Dak Son villagers were kidnapped, never to be heard of again. But the thousands of small incidents of terror–equally merciless, equally gruesome, and which account for far more victims than the big incidents–with exceedingly rare exceptions go unreported.
If did not make the press, for example, when on October 27, 1969, the Communists booby-trapped the body of a People’s Self Defense Force member whom they had killed–so that when relatives came to retrieve the body, four of them were killed in the explosion. Nor did it make the press in May 1967 when Dr. Tran Van Lu-y told the World Health Organization in Geneva that over the previous 10 years Communist terrorists had destroyed 174 dispensaries maternity homes and hospitals; had mined or machine gunned 40 ambulances and had killed or kidnapped 211 members of his staff.
If the Free World knew little or nothing of this day-to-day terror despite the presence of hundreds of correspondents in South Vietnam, what chance is there that the Free World would know anything at all about the bloodletting that would inevitably take place if the Communists came to power, expelled the western press corps, and then proceeded to deal with its enemies?
That bloodletting happened. Hundreds of thousands were killed, and millions were physically abused and tortured in “reeducation” camps.
If I seem at times paranoid, I would ask you a simple question: how much of this did you know? Put another way, can anyone plausibly claim that the actual history of Vietnam has not been thoroughly hidden from public knowledge by an educational system seemingly run by people willing to ACCEPT these horrors.
Communism is evil. It is horror. It is putting serial killers in charge of the prisons, and installing sadistic psychopaths in all positions of power, then concealing the whole thing with a carefully planned pattern of lies.