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Old 08-27-18 | 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by avole
Next time you're in Ho Chi Minh city, have a look into the War Remnants Museum, you might change your mind. It's a sobering reminder: the US pulled out of Vietnam over fourty years ago but their legacy lives on.
More sobering reminders:

How long ago did Belgium pull out of The Congo? Or France from Algeria? I don't know if there are any museums dedicated to the colonial experience.

Good books to catch up on the subject are, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, by Adam Hochschild and A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, by Alistar Horne.
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