I know how the Vietnam War affected us back home, but how did

>>33945385
Bump for interest. A friend of mine's grandpa served in Vietnam, primarily doing undercover operations for the CIA he's still not allowed (or not willing) to talk about. Apparently, there was a French guy who was former Foreign Legion or GIGN or something at a sporting event my buddy was at who kept pestering the old man because he wore a Vietnam Veteran hat. Old man told him to fuck off, in those exact words. Always found that kinda funny, especially since the old man's pretty short and my friend described the French guy as a 6'4" muscled monster with tattoos all over.

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>>33945385
Aussie here. In my opinion Vietnam was considerably more justified for us than it was for the U.S. given that there was the very real threat of communism spreading to our shores. That being said, the public opinion here generally mirrored that of the U.S. for the most part.

>>33945385
Also, I can highly recommend this documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gUSq7pxux4

Kiwi here, my Grandad served in Vietnam, fucked him up pretty bad. New Zealand in general back then was a bunch of SJWs in the cities, who wanted to fight communism but didn't like all the baby killing. After the war it was pretty similar to Australia, we hated the states but also hated communism.

tl;dr A bunch of cry baby city liberals voting on behalf of the rest of the country.

http://youtu.be/bkl3fBeUdLg

>>33946454
Anyone else think the old slouch hats were pure aesthetic?

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>>33946495
we still have them

>>33945385
In the Philippines it was split
>In the 60s.
Vietnam going full red is an existential threat. Therefore people supported the war against North Vietnam. Domino theory and all that.
>In the 70s
The existential threat of Communist Vietnam is buried under complications caused by the Marcos dictatorship.

On one hand, the spectre of communism seemed to be a far off threat compared to the dictatorship and corruption.

On the other hand the Marcos Dictatorship itself is a mess regarding its stance towards communists and USA. Sometimes it acts as pro-American when it needs favors from the US but then tries to ride the populist wave by riding the Anti-American wave condeming US bases and abuses by US Servicemen in the country or doing edgy shit such as meeting with Communist leaders as the case with Castro and Mao.

70's and 80's Philippines was all about the Philippines trying to be third world unaligned really.

>>33945385
Vietnam was one of the most divisive wars Australia was ever involved in.
I grew up with a lot of vets who where either fathers of friends, uncles and cousins of people I knew. They got treated really badly by the anti-war protesters and its a fairly large wound that's never really been healed over time, quite a few current and recent veterans like me are very wary of anyone who's a lefty or claims to be an 'anti-war' supporter.

On top of that, things like the RSL (returned services league) straight up refused to acknowledge Vietnam vets for a very long time as it wasn't a 'real war' like WW2, Korea or Malaysia. So there was a real break in sympathy, support and alienation that happened that also still runs through the community as a whole, people don't really care about past or present soldiers from the more recent conflicts. They'll get a day off on Anzac day, maybe do some 2-up, watch some shit about WW1 and 2 on TV and then they're forgotten for another year.

Wouldn't say veterans are outright hated, but mostly just forgotten.

>>33946454

Looks like you failed in that respect then, communism did spread to your shores.

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>>33946502
You Aussies and your fucked up hats, why can't you just wear normal hats like us kiwis?

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>>33946550
>That feel when I dug holes in Waiouru for 6 years, but still get looked at funny when I go into the RSA.

>>33945385
Some Canadians participated but not as Canadians.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lost-to-history-the-canadians-who-fought-in-vietnam-1.3304440

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German here. We were pretty cucked even back then. Of course we had many protests against it, especially from students. There was a leftist terrorist group (Red Army Fraction) that targeted american soldiers and a center-right newspaper, partially because of the vietnam war, but also because they viewed the americans as occupants. They were backed by East Germany.

>>33947043
Ah, there's no protestors like student protestors. They always have this air of entitlement about them.

Bulgaria here. We named a bunch of shit Ho Chi Minh and sent them gas masks and radios if I remember correctly. And we received tens of thousands of Vietnamese laborers to work off the denbts later. Some of them are stll around, good folks.

>>33948053
Hire them young because they already know everyfuckingthing.

>>33945385
varied from people thinking the US is retarded and the US is awful

>>33946601
>Kiwis being an authority on anything other than cricket

good one you lil poof

>>33946589
kek

>>33948053
They gobble up all of the subversion like it's the best thing ever.
Bizarre how Russia, even though it's past communism and socialism, continues to push it on the rest of the world.

Yuropoor here. I asked my dad about it who was born 1956 and according to what he remembers it was news reports of horrible things happening in a war far away in a country he didn't even know existed.

>>33945385
Best Vietnam Documentary?

>>33951145
I really liked the Karnow series.

It has some really nice disconcerting music they play when shit's going down.

>>33951145
>>33951162
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKi-SyRA7I

Found it.

>>33951162
Cool thanks, What about informational wise?

>>33951170
Well, Stanley Karnow was physically in Vietnam from the late 1950s until 1974, and personally talked to most of the important leaders during and after the war.

He also wrote a book about the topic. It's 1000 pages long, but it's pretty interesting and extremely detailed.

>>33951145
>>33951170

For the battles and operations in general, i found Battlefield Vietnam to be a pretty good documentary series:

>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n62-l6kYBzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n62-l6kYBzA