Why do you hate the Republic of Vietnam?

Question

If you are Vietnamese and hate the Republic of Vietnam, what are your reasons for that?

Answer 1

Without VNCH, Vietnam had unified in 1954, with no more a few million Vietnamese dead.

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Answer 2

I am Vietnamese, and I did hate Republic of Vietnam. It ceased 6 years ago. Actually, it couldn’t be described as hate, Republic of Vietnam was like a taboo which I didn’t want to talk about and discuss about. I just thought that when I hadn’t wanted to talk about something meaning I hated it. And because I didn’t want to talk about it, I didn’t want to learn to know what it is, how it was and explain everything related to it. Every one around me did the same. I didn’t have chance to change my view.

Everything ceased when I went abroad. My new friends talked about it, they discussed what it was, why it collapsed, who Diem the president was, why he was assassinated, who Thieu was and so on. At first, those questions violated my taboos. I felt very unpleasant to listen to and to think of those questions. But I am a stubborn person, I wanted to win in every argument. I told them RV was bad, Diem and Thieu were the puppets of the US, but I couldn’t have explained in detail. I just knew so because I was taught so at school without evidences. They gave me their reasons, and evidences, and their perspectives on such. It was like the first time my eyes were forced to be opened to see directly the light. I felt offensive. Indeed, I am a scientist, I cannot suffer a feeling of getting rid of a truth. I learnt about RV and its history, from French view, the US view, Viet Communist’s view, the RV survivors’view, etc. And I found that I was fooled in school to hate RV and put everything relating to it in a taboo box.

I think most of Vietnamese experience the same. For the one who cannot get over the taboo box, hate RV and related things due to no reason, they do because they have been taught to do. Some one get over the box, but cannot through away their bias also get stuck. But many get a comprehensive perspective on that. Nowadays, I think I hate nothing. Every thing has its own reason, once we understand why, we acknowledge that it’s reasonable.

Answer 3

They were minions for France, against Vietnam's independence, and minions for the United States against the unity of Vietnam, they deserved to be destroyed.History of Vietnam have not place for traitors of nation.Never.

Answer 4

I do not fall into the criteria of this question but I feel the need of speaking up.

The fact is we, the Vietnamese, were divided into 2 different countries and these 2 countries had conflicts with each other. I didn’t wanna say “we were at war” since the South may say they didn’t initiate the war. Just like Vietnam and China now, when 2 sides have conflicts (ideology, land side, sea side …), there will be people hating each others.

The Vietnam war was almost 50 years ago. This kinda question serves no purpose but only divides the people into 2 sides.

Why don’t we look forward into the future and help the Vietnamese to be happier? Cheers.

Answer 5

Just like there are brainwashed North Koreans who hate the Republic of Korea, there are also many brainwashed, die-hard Vietnamese commies (most of them are “Bắc Kỳ”, by the way) who hate the Republic of Vietnam.

Answer 6

I answered this question in short version. And then read other answers, and then i decide to answer to this question in more detail because some of those other answer make me itchy.

Firstly, about brainwashed blah blah … someone think of, well, there mostly no hatred against Republic of Vietnam in North Vietnamese people’s mind. The “Vietnam War” as you all know is refer to in Vietnam as “Resistance against America invasion" or “Resistance against America to protect mother’s land”. There is not much about RV to be considered about.

Secondly, in my eye, RV was just some weakling who couldn’t defend themself; relied on foreign army, money and technology to protect their own ass; fighting side by side with US army against their own kin; and easily collapsed when their precious ally abandoned them. So their disappearance in history is inevitable. That’s all.

Answer 7

Because the leadership of South Vietnam was a bunch of French and American henchmen against Vietnam's independence.

They fought against independence of Vietnam beside French and fought unity of Vietnam as henchmen of the Yanks,while millions of Vietnamese people died for Vietnam's independence and unification.They were enemies of this nation and country

Answer 8

I am not Vietnamese so maybe you do not want my answer. In which case I apologize for answering.

I was an Air Force lieutenant in 1963 stationed in Danang and Saigon. I believe that there were good men on both sides of the conflict. I think that democracy and capitalism are preferable to communism.

The book “Voices from the second Republic of South Vietnam” reveal genuine South Vietnamese nobility. And there was nobility and courage on the Communist side as well.

I suspect the main reason why the people fought so hard against the South was that Americans were seen as the successors to the French. And then it became a “race war.” A war against outsiders.

Answer 9

They served the French invaders and helped them enslaving their own people. At the battle of Dien Bien Phu, 33% of French forces were Vietnamese, ready to murder Vietnamese patriots in order to please their French masters.

They illegally occupied the South and prevented Vietnam from being peacefully unified.

They let foreign troops into the country and massacre their own citizens. Using foreign troops to kill Vietnamese people is traditionally the greatest taboo a traitor could commit. Other examples include Kiều Công Tiễn, Trần Ích Tắc, Lê Chiêu Thống, Nguyễn Ánh.

They let Taiwanese (their ally) steal Ba Binh island, Filipinos (another ally) steal Song Tử Đông and many islands in the Spratly Islands and Chinese to rob the entire Paracel Islands, even though South Vietnamese navy was the fifth largest in the world.

Even nowadays, they actively lobby the US governments to embargo Vietnam and destroy our economy.

Even though the South Koreans themselves came to Vietnam and knelt to apologize for their soldiers’ war crimes in Vietnam, pro-South Vietnamese, like Thanh Nguyen still defend and praise them: Thanh Nguyen's answer to Did the South Korean soldiers hold a grudge against the Vietnamese for whatever reason during the Vietnam War? Why did they commit such atrocious crimes toward people they weren't in a direct conflict with?

Answer 10

Like other Vietnamese people, I have a tendency to let bygones be bygones. Yes, I learnt about that regime but as I’m not a direct victim of the war, I didn’t think too much about it. However, the attitude of many oversea Vietnamese is annoying sometimes. While we are looking forward to the future, hoping that the world will get to know more about our country, they seem to try the best to slander it. They talk about Vietnam as if they were living here (well, they are not). Seriously, why do they feel the need to talk politics in posts merely showing how beautiful our beaches/mountains are? Why do they need to tell tourists to avoid Vietnam just because they don’t like the government? Why do they try to prevent people from sending money back home? That kind of attitude makes us young Viets think they are against our development, that they want to destroy us economically. It does no good at all. We no longer care about what they did in the past, but we do care about what they do to support their fellow countrymen now. If they want us to suffer, surely we can’t respect them much.