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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
