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Most
people remember the Vietnam War vividly. Each day in the
sixties and seventies of the last century papers and
television brought the war of the United States and some of their
allies against the Vietnamese people in each living room all over
the world. There are numerous internet sites about this war. As
usual we try to show some interesting places in the country which
have some importance to the development of communism. Of course we
can't ignore the anti imperialistic war fought during the
twentieth century. Interesting places remembering the war are Dien
Bien Phu where the French were beaten on 6 May 1954; the so
called Demilitarised Zone (DMZ)
in the center of Vietnam where the fight between the United States
and the Vietnamese people was at its heights (what's in a name?)
and of course the
tunnels of Cu Chi. The best museum about the impact and the
atrocities of the war can be found in Ho Chi Minh City: The
War Remnants Museum (former Museum of American War Crimes).
The famous embassy
of the United States in Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon) has
been demolished by the Americans in 1999. This embassy is well
known for it's rooftop evacuation at the end of the war.
Places
you may not miss with importance to communist development are in
two categories (as far as you can separate them): The first
category is in remembrance of the life of Ho Chi Minh: his
native home in Kim Lien, the
Pac Bo Cave in Cao Bang, where President Ho Chi Minh lived
after returning from China, Uncle
Ho's Museum for Momentos, the
living quarter and working space of president Ho Chi Minh, the
Ho Chi Minh Museum in Danang
with a complete replica of his house in Hanoi and the
mausoleum of Uncle Ho. Another category of museums shows us
the progression of the revolution and communism in Vietnam: the
Revolutionary Museums in Ho
Chi Minh City and Hanoi.
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Socialist Republic of Vietnam
