Great newspaper photos
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JAMedia
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Fascinating photos. It is not often that in the west we see photos from the NVA/VC side of things. Which is strange as the winning side usually write, and trumpet, the history. Whereas for Vietnam in the Americas and Europe all the view was the US view. Much the same as the UK has Dunkirk and the Charge of the Light Brigade as "Glorious Episodes where the British Spirit shone through" but were in reality defeats. History is what ever the newspapers say it is. Only a few people who are historians will have an accurate view.
ahalpert
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I'm sure their side of the history is trumpeted domestically. For some reason, we don't seem to read a lot of translations of Vietnamese textbooks over here... anyway, it was a pyrrhic victory and Vietnam was left poorer than it already was. It's not like they were Roman conquerors, which is probably what "history is written by the victors" refers to, where the culture of the losers was sometimes extinguished
JAMedia
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That one could be almost any time 1949-2021.
I note that the Taliban are going to be back in charge in Afghan in 2022.
Edit: In a Zoom Call on the 8th July with some people in Kabul the estimate is the Taliban will be in charge of the whole country by October 2021
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ahalpert
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the "graveyard of empires"
).Kalashnikov had nothing to do with the weapon. He was just a random stooge picked out of the crowd by the apparatchiks.
The above is the end of the Soviet Union, December, 1991 (a likely date), Photo by Alexander Nemenov, AFP (from Getty Images)
Below is August, 22, 1991, Moscow. The civilians climb on top of armored cars during the failed coup of the communist hardliners against Mikhail Gorbachev. Photo by Boris Yurchenko, AP,
Below is August, 22, 1991, Moscow. The civilians climb on top of armored cars during the failed coup of the communist hardliners against Mikhail Gorbachev. Photo by Boris Yurchenko, AP,
ahalpert
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Breaking my own rules... this isn't really a beautiful shot or a shot that would be memorable without context, except perhaps because of how memorably unmemorable it is.
The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan:
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But the shot does have a sort of soft, old-timey feel, almost late 19th century detail and texture. Instantly feels like something from the past...
I suppose I react to how the shot is rather anticlimactic compared to how I feel like it should look:
The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan:
no attribution
But the shot does have a sort of soft, old-timey feel, almost late 19th century detail and texture. Instantly feels like something from the past...
I suppose I react to how the shot is rather anticlimactic compared to how I feel like it should look:
