The Truth about the Vietnam War
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In response to a letter sent to the New York Journal-American, signed by 20 American scientists and scholars, this Radio Moscow program looks at the causes and effects of the war in Vietnam. Sergei Rukend discusses these arguments and how "they correspond to the facts."
He examines US claims on how the war was started, the legitimacy of the South Vietnamese democracy, the dictatorship of Ngô Đình Diệm, and failures on the part of the US to negotiate peacefully. The Vietcong is portrayed as a national movement with broad support, and he describes their history and mission for "peace and moderate democratic reforms."
"Washington's mad, irresponsible course of suppressing national liberation movements" is compared as worse than Hitler.
[Most likely recorded in the mid-1960s]
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 150029
Municipal archives id: T4085
