The above photo was taken at the end of April 1975, when South Vietnam was completely defeated by North Vietnam. The capital Saigon was already surrounded by North Vietnamese troops, and the Americans were evacuating by helicopter. The Vietnamese who was hit in the face by a punch in the photo is doing his best to board the helicopter, which is destined for an American aircraft carrier at sea.
However, the helicopter was no longer able to carry more people. As the gunfire in North Vietnam was getting closer, in order to be able to leave quickly, an American punched a Vietnamese in the face, next to someone who had already boarded the helicopter. The Vietnamese were also helping the American break the fingers of his compatriots who were holding on to the cabin door.
It happened that the reporter next to him captured this scene. This is a scene from the American "Operation Gale", but this picture is not visible in the records of this evacuation operation.
Why can't I see it? Because at the end of the Vietnam War, the overwhelming Americans really couldn't take away all the Vietnamese who sold their lives for them.
It’s not decent to look at it without so many doglegs, even though the United States is also struggling to be "decent."
The story has to start with the defeat of South Vietnam in the Vietnam War.
In 1968, North Vietnam launched a large-scale "Spring Festival offensive." Although this offensive did not achieve the expected goal, it deeply affected the situation on the battlefield in Vietnam. Not only did it deal a heavy blow to the fighting spirit of the US military, but it also triggered a new wave of anti-war in the United States.
Since then, the United States’ attitude towards South Vietnam has become increasingly negative. First, the bombing of North Vietnam north of 20 degrees north latitude was stopped, and then all tactical offensive actions of the U.S. military were strictly restricted. Finally, the withdrawal of U.S. troops began in July 1969.
After the signing of the Paris Agreement in 1973, it was even more stipulated that all American soldiers still stranded in Vietnam should leave Vietnam except for some necessary personnel.
Although the then President Nixon gave the South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thiau a ticket on the eve of the signing of the agreement: "I assure you that if Hanoi dared not abide by the agreement, it would mean that we will retaliate quickly and forcefully." But less than two years later, Nixon stepped down because of the "Watergate Incident."
South Vietnam's situation has become even worse, with domestic and foreign difficulties.
The corruption and incompetence of the South Vietnamese authorities is the internal cause. At the time, the head of the CIA in Vietnam, Thomas Pogg, believed that “a corrupt government like South Vietnam cannot organize any effective operations at all. Even if North Vietnam does not retain troops in South Vietnam, they can only slowly decay and die. ".
The South Vietnamese army has not only fallen into chaos due to the loss of US military assistance, and the military is in turmoil, but the economic system has also tended to collapse. According to statistics, in January-May 1974 alone, the number of refugees from the South Vietnamese government was as high as 100,000.
Is this situation familiar? The same was true for the Kuomintang army back then.
South Vietnam, which has lost its use value, is no longer worthy of the attention of the United States. The successor President Ford and Congress agreed that this heavy burden that cost the United States money and soldiers' lives should be completely shaken off.
Perceiving this attitude of the United States, North Vietnam decided to seize the opportunity to expand the victory, liberate South Vietnam, and unify the country. After all, on the one hand, people in South Vietnam are already in disarray, and on the other hand, the United States is unwilling to intervene in Vietnam. How can this great opportunity be let go?
At the enlarged meeting of the Central Political Bureau of the Vietnamese Labor Party that ended in early 1975, the North Vietnamese government formally established a plan to realize the reunification of the motherland within two years of 1975 and 1976: "In 1975, strive for sudden large-scale general offensives. Create conditions to carry out the general offensive in 1976 and completely liberate the South."
In a long report submitted by the Vietnamese front to Ford at that time, the situation was analyzed in this way: The current ratio of North Vietnamese combatants to South Vietnam is 3:1; North Vietnam has more than 600 tanks provided by the Soviet Union or China, and the South Vietnamese Republic Army has a total of There are only more than 100 cars left. "They (North Vietnam) have very sufficient reserves to maintain the ongoing offensive until the final result."
South Vietnam was defeated, and President Nguyen Van Thiau was publicly opposed by political opponents, demanding that he be held accountable for the deteriorating situation. After inspecting some defense areas, Vice Premier and Minister of Defense Chen Wendun lamented: "The country is indeed in a critical state. Our survival time can only be calculated in days and weeks."
In early April, U.S. President Ford asked Congress to provide US$722 million in military assistance to the dying Saigon regime. He wanted to use this to achieve a "decent withdrawal" of the United States from South Vietnam. However, Congress only allocated US$3 million, and it was mainly used to evacuate the Saigon US Human expenses.
President Ford announced the end of the Vietnam War.
In mid-April 1975, the North Vietnamese army had approached Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, and Saigon became an isolated city.
On April 21, the desperate Nguyen Van Thiu announced his resignation as President of the Republic of Vietnam. In his resignation speech, in addition to complaints against the United States, he believed that the United States had betrayed him.
Nguyen Van Thiaw declared that the superpowers exchange agreements on the fate of small nations.
"You ran away and left us to do the work you didn't do. We have nothing but you want us to succeed where you failed." "When the peace agreement was signed, the United States agreed to replace it on a one-to-one basis. Equipped. But the United States has broken its promise. Are the words of the United States still credible now?"
At the same time, large-scale evacuation operations authorized by the U.S. Department of Defense are also being carried out simultaneously. The Americans began to leave South Vietnam running.
On April 18, President Ford ordered the rapid retreat of American personnel and selected Vietnamese in Saigon. U.S. 35 ships (including 4 aircraft carriers) and hundreds of aircraft of various types have frequently carried out evacuation operations since the 20th.
On the 26th, the North Vietnamese People's Army officially launched the "Battle of Saigon" and began an offensive on the periphery of Saigon. On the 28th, Tan Son Nhat Airport was blocked by North Vietnamese artillery fire. The plan for the evacuation of fixed-wing aircraft could not be continued and could only be evacuated by helicopter.
Saigon at this time has already fallen into chaos. Not only the Americans, but the South Vietnamese who once worked for the Americans are also trying their best to find a way out. Why are they fleeing their homeland so anxiously?
This "benefits" was the argument that the North Vietnamese army wanted to "blood out Saigon", which the Western media had vigorously exaggerated. They hyped up the killing of innocent civilians by the North Vietnamese army in the Battle of Hue in 1968, and caused panic.
In fact, as early as February, the evacuation wave of the upper class of South Vietnam and the Americans had already begun, but the North Vietnamese army had not yet come over, and the situation was not so bad. They could evacuate by air, although the ticket was several times more expensive than usual. .
On April 29, the situation became more critical, and the North Vietnamese People's Army could launch a general offensive at any time. Kissinger also conveyed the National Security Council's decision to Martin, the US envoy to South Vietnam, requesting the immediate use of helicopters to evacuate Americans in Saigon. Immediately, the US Marine Corps implemented the "Operation Constant Wind" and began to use helicopters to evacuate personnel.
One of the two core areas used for evacuation, the U.S. Embassy complex has become the last straw for Vietnamese who want to escape from the motherland. Thousands of Vietnamese who are eager to escape by American helicopters surrounded the embassy.
They thought the Americans would take everyone away
U.S. Marine Corps helicopters frequently travel between the U.S. Navy fleet and the U.S. Embassy. The sky full of helicopters evacuated Americans and some Vietnamese working for Americans to the sea.
In the early morning of April 30, following the take-off of the last batch of helicopters, the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam who was ordered to evacuate last left Vietnam, and the "Operation Constant Wind" ended.
The last evacuation was also quite dramatic.
Because there are too many South Vietnamese who want to escape with the Americans. The Marines in charge of the back of the palace were ordered to quietly retreat to the roof of the embassy, but the highly nervous Vietnamese immediately noticed the situation and began to restlessly. The door of the embassy also fell under the impact. Upon seeing this, the Marines immediately bolted the door of the embassy, then boarded the elevator, went to the top floor, turned off the power, and threw the key into the elevator shaft because they were ordered not to control the Vietnamese again.
However, the power that people explode in order to survive is immeasurable. The crowd broke through the chain-linked fence, through the gates, and finally rushed to the roof.
The American soldiers in the chaos also tried their best to climb the CH-46 "Sea Knight" helicopter, set aside the tear gas, and walked away. Through the portholes, the American soldiers who escaped from the tiger's mouth saw the Vietnamese refugees jumping out of the stairs, instantly filling the entire roof.
This scene is very much like a scene in a Hollywood zombie blockbuster.
The South Vietnamese who were abandoned by the Americans had no way to escape. A few hours later, North Vietnamese tanks drove into the South Vietnamese Presidential Palace, and South Vietnam was destroyed. Saigon, the capital, was renamed "Ho Chi Minh City".
The Vietnamese-American writer Nguyen Thanh Viet mentioned in the book "The Sympathizer" that the title "Vietnam War" was banned by the Americans. On the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, there are 50,000 to 60,000 names of the dead, but none of them are. Vietnamese. Hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese soldiers fought side by side with the U.S. Army and died on the battlefield, but they were all ignored—fighting side by side with the U.S. for more than ten years, it turned out that you were also erased in American history. .
This obliteration can be seen in American Vietnam War movies for decades, because there is no specific image of South Vietnam in it.
This is the end of mixing with the Americans. To put it ugly, this is the end of the American running dog.
In fact, I shared this story today because I saw a piece of news.
"He Shan Shuo" I don't know if you have heard of it. This guy's real name is Ding Jianqiang, and He Shanshuo is his Twitter name, so what is special about this person that is worth mentioning separately?
Because, as a stalwart anti-China activist who "reverses every China and licks every beauty," the Sichuan fan among the Chinese community died of the new crown in the US a few days ago. What's outrageous is that he was still kneeling and licking the United States before he died. What's even more outrageous is that he was the type of person who was given up by the United States to wait for treatment and didn't know it.
There is a lot of room in the ward
In fact, He Shanshuo had been infected with the new crown a long time ago. However, when he went to the hospital for blood sampling, CT scans, and nucleic acid tests, he was told by the doctor that he was not infected. It was just common pneumonia. Just take some antibiotics. Later, when he was critically ill, he was sent to the ward by the hospital and tricked him into an ICU. In fact, he was "waiting for a dead zone". There were no medical measures such as ventilator at all. He died in a few days.
From the incident of He Shanshuo, I saw the sadness of being sold and paying for the money.
There are even more outrageous. He Shanshuo's follower, Geng Champion (the net name "Direct Democracy"), who organized his funeral, was also diagnosed with the new crown.
Before, he scolded netizens online, saying that he didn't need to go to the hospital. The American doctor told him that the new crown can heal on his own. He also said that he could defeat the "virus" without taking a pill.
The result was so fast that I couldn't hold it anymore and became unconscious. His friends also boasted that he enjoyed more medical treatment than Trump.
However, Trump was discharged from the hospital a few days after he won the new crown, but this buddy stopped breathing and died on January 4.
These two people, one after another, died of the new crown in the United States where they knelt and licked their lives. Could it be a great irony?
One thing is worth pondering. The Cambodian politician Slack Mitak also received an invitation from the US ambassador to suggest that he leave with him, but he refused. Then he wrote the epitaph in his diary, which contains the following sentence: The only mistake I made in my life was to believe you-Americans.
th. Slark Mitak could still see the face of the United States clearly before his death, and he did not forget to kneel and lick the United States until he died.
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