The Cambodian - Vietnamese War - Third Indochina War [45 Years of War - 3/3] - Documentary
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- Cambodia, while officially declaring neutrality, got pulled into the conflict with neighboring Vietnam. The consequence was another proxy war and a dictatorship that killed millions of innocent people.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Cambodia´s divide
2:07 Civil War
4:01 War among Allies
6:35 Insurgency and Rebuilding Efforts
7:44 Aftermath
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The Vietnamese were the most formidable fighting force on the planet for about 50 years. Beat everyone who occupied their country and outfought all regional rivals. They could still probably outfight China on their own turf.
I will never understand how China could be so pathetic in this war. They didn't even face the NVA, they were destroyed by local millitias.
like they say, it is a "half-hearted" invasion
Now. They are so strong😂😂
@@Luucuden on paper and not battle tested 😂😂
that's because of their way of war. Chinese generals use the same "sea of people" tactics as their earlier spear/sword era (you can see this in Chinese movies). In 1979, China used livestock and civilians moving forward as human shields for its troops in the rear. Surviving soldiers in Vietnam recounted that they had to shoot guns almost continuously and felt like it was impossible to kill them all, they were too many.
The terrain in the Vietnam-China border area was not suitable for the type of Chinese warfare at that time. Forests and mountains are abundant, it is suitable for the type of guerrilla warfare of Vietnam.
@@Luucuden not at all….especially with the china virus over 1 Billion chinos are now infected…hahahaha 😂😂😂
You gotta respect (North) Vietnam. Truly a nation who knows war and with a modern and practical military, the bane of any who take them on.
I respect both North and South Vietnam regardless of their ideology, and believes.
At this point in their history they were the most hardened fighting force on earth per capita. Defeating France, USA, China back to back to back.
Neither North or South, Vietnam is one and the same.
The country of Vietnam and the Vietnamese people are one. No north or south here.
South Vietnam is a made up puppet state , it only existed during the American invasion. No North , No South , No motherland no overseas , I myself was born in New Orleans ,LA .
Still I am Vietnamese .
Holy shit the production quality is insane, especially given your channel size. Thankyou for covering this topic.
Surprised to see anyone cover this. Excellent work. Even the subsequent war with China is interesting.
This video is full of shit. Got 1/2 of the history of what happened wrong. I lived in the middle of that history.
damn I was shocked when I found out you only have 2k subscribers, quality and content deserve millions!
haha, last month I was at 800. It took me 2 years to get to 1k. In the past 10 days I made more than in ever before. So i guess I m making progress^^
btw. Thanks for the nice comment.
@@Caesarius i liked they way you narrate the stories and the fact that you are not biased and you speak just facts with no ideology or secert agendas unlike other similar channels with thousands or even millions of subs. thank you for that you speed the true truth based on facts and you are not blinded by western propaganda or any propaganda, like the US and western countries are inncocent puppies and the rest of 3rd world are degenerates evil. and stuff like that that the media push to blind people from the truth.
i just watched your documentary and it’s so good this should have like 500k views
Subscribed! Amazing production and narration
Thank for the video about the 3rd Indochina war involving the 2 communist or socialist states of Vietnam and Cambodia. Communist Cambodia with a paysant army thought they could take on experienced Vietnam army. They lost the war, even with China help by invading Vietnam territories in the north.
Great quality. Keep it up and those subscribers should grow.
Awesome content
Best History Channel on TH-cam! Many thanks for your work!
Lie
Thank you for doing this. This conflict does not get much focus on youtube.
Great work, man. Like and comment to help the algorithm.
Really well-edited. Must have taken the video editor a hot minute to shape layer the edges of the countries. :)
Thank you. The shape layers are part of a plugin, just 2 clicks, otherwise I already would have given up🤣
@@Caesarius Haha.
No way?! I didn't know there was a plugin for that! May I ask what plugin it is, and is it for after effects or premiere pro? Thank you.
Sure, the Plugin is called "Geolayers 3" and is only available for AE. It is still a headache to get used to it, but worth it.
@@Caesarius Thanks. After I posted that comment I remembered Geolayers and figured it was that plugin. I actually was able to just install it, so look forward to using it!
@@st.michaelthearchangel7774 You are welcome. If you need inspiration, check out "Boone loves Video", he´s got the best ideas.
A war that's seldom touched on unfortunately, thank you so much for the informative video with respect to history and those fallen
at the start..the music is just Amazing! And if theres a music for it What name?
th-cam.com/video/YjYo--sWNtQ/w-d-xo.html
Credits by Epidemic Sound
Prince Sihanouk, idolized by his people, sold out his country to the Khmer Rouge and is unfortunately the man most responsible for their coming to power.
Had Sihanouk had simply put his foot down when he should have, as the Viet Cong were setting up and expanding supply lines on Cambodian soil, he would never have been deposed. The Cambodian government would have retained much-needed legitimacy with his presence.
Sihanouk then joining forces with the Khmer Rouge instead, in a desperate attempt to regain power (despite knowing they were communists and hated him), was completely unconscionable. Sihanouk’s endorsement signaled to the Cambodian people that the Khmer Rouge could be trusted.
Sure enough as soon as they came to power, the Khmer Rouge disposed of him and he fled to China, while his people suffered under one of the worst regimes in human history.
Sihanouk’s reputation was somewhat rehabilitated by becoming the face of the new Cambodia after the end of the Cold War, with his restoration as king. However for all the people who try to blame those who were actually fighting against the Khmer Rouge (namely America and South Vietnam) for their rise, they should instead point the finger at the man who refused to fight them, and in fact tried to ride on their backs into power.
Why blame Sihanouk but the not the Vietnamese were using Cambodia land?
@@jemappllesphan6143 of course the North Vietnamese were ultimately responsible for the warfare in the region and for violating other countries’ borders. With regards to Cambodia specifically, the series of actions taken by Sihanouk over the course of a decade in response to this crisis were directly responsible for the Khmer Rouge gaining power.
My comment was mainly pushing back against those who blame America for the rise of the Khmer Rouge.
Wow dude. Amazing production quality. You're gonna be fucking huge one day. Subbed.
Keep making videos
At the beginning. Both the North Communist Vietnamese, The Pathet Lao, and the Communist Khmer Rouge both agreed that the French and United States need to be out of Indochina. But later, Pol Pot mistrust the Communist Vietnamese and turn against them
illusion and have nazi like thought his think half of South Vietnam is they and start attack but guess what we maybe exhaust after US-VN but not that mean our experience lost lol pol delusion that 1 Khmer rouge can handle 30 Vietnam and his also statement that just 2m Khmer rouge can handle 30m Vietnam lol
it's not mistrust but delusion man that also idol Hitler
Bro pol pot used the excuse they were attacked like 500 years ago as justification to start war with vietnam and got destroyed in 2 weeks 💀
The Vietnamese people are always resilient to the great victory!
People keep forgetting that both communism and capitalism are not religion that must be followed religiously. Both have good and bad part about it, the key to a better society is how to implement the correct parts. Many people nowadays in capitalist countries demand communist policies without even knowing it, like workers union, companies are trying their best to prevent this.
Vietnam also attack Cambodian positions located in Thailand, leading to Vietnam and Thailand soldiers to get into several skirmishes.
Việt Nam đã 11 lần đánh sang biên giới Thái Lan khiến thái lan lúc đó phải kêu gọi tử thủ Bangkok...10 năm đánh polpot và là nổi kinh hoàng với thái Lan
Why this channel is this underappreciated?!
The Red Khmer only suffer 10k casualties? That's kinda weird, they already lost like 15k in 1979 and not to mention the casualties from 1979 to 1989, I think they suffer nearly 100k casualties if you count the wounded. The casualties of Vietnam in the video is the total casualties of the entire combine force of Vietnam and their Cambodian allies not Vietnam alone. Its cool that you make this video but please do it right, I know English speaker hate us Vietnamese but please dont be that bias.
Just looked up the casualties, and they were indeed higher than 10k or even 15k. No Idea how this got into the Video, but it happens.
However, I couldn´t find any good information on that. I also beg to differ that the Khmer had exact records of their casualties.
BTW: Casualties, in military terms, includes the injured AND killed.
Also, I don´t think that a lot of English-speaking people hate your country.
We do not hate you, it’s disheartening to see you say this so casually. Governments don’t always act in the people’s best interests and sometimes are powerless to stop things.
From America, many of us have high respect for Vietnam, and thank you for serving up some humble pie to Japan, France, the USA China, and Cambodia. Fucking undefeated over there.
they also count the casualties of Vietnam forces fighting the Chinese invasion in 1979 and 1986, that's why it's so high. The Chinese had a lot of troops and much better weapons when they came back for the 2nd round, while the Vietnam was going through their precious outdated US weapon stockpiles lightning fast.
@@kaleidoscope3234 U.S. weapons cannot be replaced with spare parts when the embargo leads to damage. But thanks to the US weapons that liberated Cambodia quickly
Well done video, grateful to you that you manage to get this film out so the world would understand more about this complex war. I am the girl in Freemantle War In Cambodia. I agreed everything that you had said and pointed about the war in Cambodia except one part. It's about that the Cambodians' officials were corrupted & so forth, i agreed whole heartedly, but one crucial factor about the civilians' decisions to joint the Khmer Rouge ( the feather that breaks the camel's back) were due to the facts that it was the power hungry Sihanouk that broadcast on N. Vietnam's and Chinese's radio to have the Khmer citizens resist Lon Nol's policy and fight against his forces. This caused chaos & massive attitude changes in Khmer peasants, the poor and uneducated, our parents, the elderly to turn their back to us students, the intellectuals. So the results was why the Khmer Rouge forces rose so much and eventually we lost the war. Of cource Lon Nol's official were so corrupted, counting from his own brother Lon Non ( one of the general) on down. I was there flesh and blood. I was 19 years old when Sihanouk was ousted from power. I could speaks and read English, French besides Khmer language very well. so i could follow the News around the world and smart enough to realized what this war was about. People accuse me of relating to US , CIA, and even Lon Nol's soldier. That the video that i was in was just a propaganda. All of this is not true, i was just an unknown student at the time. Hope your video will become very popular! and best of lucks to you. Sithanary
Thank you for the significant input. I always appreciate comments that add more context to the video.
As you can imagine, explaining the situation as an outsider from the other side of the world is not too easy, especially if there is a lack of sources.
I wish all the best for you and your Country. May the Khmer be a reminder of what people can do to each other and may you all become prosperous!
Best of luck!
Thank you, i am so touched and grateful that you take the time to answer. Beat of lucks and much more success for your effort. Sithanary@@Caesarius
120K casualties for both sides of the Sino-Viet conflict? Phrasing is really confusing.
Wow! I didn't know.
Thế giới nợ Việt Nam một lời xin lỗi.
Vietnam trained the Khmer Rouge to start a violent insurrection against a popular legitimate government because they refuse to let NVA carry their invasion of South Vietnam through their borders.
Agree ❤
For training Khmer Rouge?
Basically a good example of the more you fuck around the more you find out.
Pol pot picked wrong fight with vietnamese,
The fact that the Cambodians and the Chinese really tried to pick a fight with the Vietnamese who had just won two wars for their independence fucking astounded me. Like these guys are battle hardened veterans who've been fighting since just after WW2. China and Cambodia got their asses handed to them.
We Cambodians did not pick a fight with the Vietnamese, we are defending ourselves from the invading Vietnam!. Would you just kneel down if you were the Cambodians?. Vietnam was the # 7th in the world in Navy fleets and armaments, how could the poor Cambodians defense ourselves from the mighty Vietnam that sucked the US dried of Aids from sooooooooooooooooo many years! We Cambodians were always the defenders of our land for several centuries, while Cruel Vietnam and Thailand were always the Offensive forces. Learn History MR. LEFLEUR before you mock or smirked some victim's nations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@kanarykim352if cambodia so innocent why khmer keep stealing our former Xieang Teng Laotians land day by day ? if no Khmer thieves send illegal immigrants, the whole SEA would be peaceful.
Whose country win?
Campuchina win😢
Chế độ Khmer đỏ là tàn bạo nhất lịch sử nhân loại
Đa số người ta chỉ biết Việt Nam có hai mặt trận Campuchia và China vào năm 1979, ít ai biết đồng thời lúc đó Thái Lan đem quân đánh qua biên giới Lào, Việt Nam cắt một phần lực lượng chiến đấu giúp đỡ Lào.
1984 Trung Quốc đem hải quân đánh chiếm quần đảo Trường Sa của Việt Nam.
Vậy là từ năm 1979-1984 Việt Nam có bốn mặt trận, bốn hướng khác nhau.
China, Campuchia, Lào, Biển Đông
50k Vietnamese casualty? Cambodia was conquered within two weeks, so basically the Khmar packed up and ran.
It's not justice that Phu Quoc island is near to Cambodia but it belongs to Vietnam, it's very cheap that Franch cut Cambodia's land give to Vietnam. Very painful
That's the compensation of giving that Vietnam provinces to Cambodia
nonsense. The method of cutting Vietnam's land for Cambodia is more correct. don't make it up. Take a look at the map of the Nguyen Dynasty before French colonial rule. The area today is Sihanouvilke still belongs to Vietnamese territory and when the French arrived that land was cut off to Cambodia and makes Phu Quoc look so close to Cambodia today.
@@G.A.C_Preserve nonsense. The method of cutting Vietnam's land for Cambodia is more correct. don't make it up. Take a look at the map of the Nguyen Dynasty before French colonial rule. The area today is Sihanouvilke still belongs to Vietnamese territory and when the French arrived that land was cut off to Cambodia and makes Phu Quoc look so close to Cambodia today.
@@HigehiroGo What are you saying? Kampuchea Krom is the former provinces of Cambodia but now Vietnam change all those provinces' name to Vietnamese language in order to get rid of the evidence
No, all the land that Vietnam own was once belong to the Mighty Khmer empire!. So when you said Sihanoukvill was given back to Cambodia was after the French gave our land to Vietnam. Your country and you made this up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@HigehiroGo
So, after getting pushed back a few times, what motivation did Khmer Rouge have to continue to invade and massacre the Vietnam people? Was it provoked in any way? It's hard to understand the reasoning.
It is said that Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge was menthally ill/unstabble (- just like his wife who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia).
Those people usually have no sense of logic, hence you can´t actually reason with them.
TLDR - He was crazy.
Pol pot was put in power by the us govt. that tells you all you need to know
@@Caesarius Pol Pot được Trung Quốc chống lưng và xúi giục nên ảo tưởng về sức mạnh. Trung Quốc đã bắt tay với Mỹ để đâm sau lưng Việt Nam từ năm 1973. Trung Quốc không bao giờ muốn Việt Nam thống nhất. Họ muốn Việt Nam chia cắt như Triều Tiên để phải lệ thuộc vào họ. Chỉ có Liên Xô giúp chúng tôi thực lòng. Mỹ và Trung Quốc dối trá, bẩn thỉu và độc ác như nhau. Chúng tôi không bao giờ tin họ.
He wanted the former Cambodian land back. It was taken by the Vietnamese about 300 years ago.
@@chaya973 Currently, the Cambodian Prime Minister and his son are experiencing delusions of control regarding the land of Funan. I am worried that one day the UN will sanction Vietnam because of their delusions.
😢
Jeez 2 millions of their own people. Dam
Great video but might need to do some fact check @4:32. The French gave administration of Koh Troll (Phu Quoc) to Vietnam but Cambodia retains sovereignty. So, it is factually incorrect to call Koh Troll as Vietnamese territory.
Cam ranh là huyện đảo của Việt Nam rồi bạn
Phú quốc là của vn nó đã và đang tồn tại được vn phát triển mạnh ,đừng có đòi đất online vô lý nha bạn
@@hoangthienbaovo6111the fact that island is being developed does not make you legally own part of other country. If suddenly, China took some part of your country and developed it, what would you say?
@@hoangthienbaovo6111you got the whole cochinchine part. Isn’t it enough?
@@princeoudong2282 it's used to be part of Vietnam, like half of Cambodia or something
So Vietnam helped Khmar to gain power but later when khmar invaded vietnam, they fought them??
Cambodia is in a bad shape that time 😢
Corridor 🔥💀 corridor 💀🔥 corridor 💀🔥
1 brutal genocide by polpot with nearly 3 million people both Cambodian and Vietnamese at the border and island. However, many Cambodians now still don't want to understand, they blame Vietnam for invading Cambodia, living after nearly 50 years of peace but they don't understand the value of peace, they don't think and find a way building a rich and strong country, they just go to see a beautiful place in Vietnam and provoke that it is Vietnam taking over their land for example Ho Chi Minh city, Phu Quoc island, they don't understand who is who are enemies, they don't understand to have peace and escape the genocide the blood of Vietnamese soldiers has poured into the river in their country, sadly for such people, Vietnam always wants brothers Like Cambodia, Laos is our friend to keep peace and stability, to build a strong country together.
Vietnam trained the Khmer Rouge to start an violent insurrection against a popular legitimate government in order to use their country as a staging grohnd for an invasion of another sovereign country.
@@saviet4222 You are the evidence for "most of intelligent and knowledgable people being killed under Khmer Rouge".
Horseshit.
2:14 this is a very interesting take on the conflict, not gonna lie. The other sources I checked, including that of Cambodian sources, stated that the North Vietnamese only trained the Khmer Rouge. And there was no invasion by the NVA into Cambodia, but instead the US launched a series of bombardment upon the request of Lon Nol which result in his support plummeting and the Khmer Rouge swelling in ranks with sympathizer and anti-US sentiment. I am not saying you are wrong, but I think your explanation on how the Khmer Rouge gaining supporters just because the Vietnamese were handing lands to them doesn't really hold up. If Lon Nol had US military backing, then Khmer Rouge force conscripting uncooperative recruits would have worked against their interest, as it increase chance of deflectors revealing their location to the authority and get annihilated by US forces.
There was already a presence of NVA troops, and VC paramilitaries in the east of the country along the border, but then Lon Nol demanded that they leave after the coup. In response, the NVA launched a larger offensive in order to remove him from power. So they didn't technically invade, they just expanded their operations. Apparently, they also did so directly at the request of Pol Pot's 2nd in command, Nuon Chea. When you seize 40 percent of a country, and then hand it over to a group of radical insurgents, it shouldn't really come as a surprise when they are successfully able to overthrow the government.
@@robfl100 Lands alone isn't sufficient and it is actually worthless if anything. The nature of Vietnam war is not the same as the total war you seen in world war I and II. Just because you have the lands, doesn't mean you have the people, and the people are what really important. If Khmer Rouge didn't have support of the local population, there is nothin gonna stop some dissenting villagers to point the American towards their positons. My Lai massacre didn't happen for no reason you know.
Lon Nol wasn't an internationally recognized government of Cambodia, NVA had no legal obligation to comply his demand. King Sihanuk, the legal leader of Cambodia and the one who gave permission for NVA to operate inside Cambodia, sided with Cambodia communist party (before it was taken over by Khmer Rouge. Sihanuk's involvement made the Khmer Rouge a lot more than just radical insurgent and was the real reason the NVA involved in Cambodia affairs.
Not to mention, this is the only source that I have heard that the NVA actively invaded Cambodia, as even sources from Cambodia themselves all stated that this was a civil war and only Lon Nol had help from the USA. The theory itself doesn't really hold much candle. On one hand there is no real reason for NVA to intervene, since Lon Nol is an illegitimate leader and he lack both the influence and power to make them leave. And on the other hand the major 1969 Spring assault was on the horizon, why would the NVA launch on attack that on an equal scale of their Spring assault non-chalantly on the flat plain of Cambodia. This theory simply doesn't make sense politically and fail to fit with Giap's usual war strategy and decision making. You gonna need a real convincing source to back it up.
@@kaleidoscope3234Vietnam truly invaded Cambodia, even lee hsien long and kuan yew mentioned about the Vietnam invasion.
Do you know why Sihanouk allow north Vietnam to enter Cambodia territory? This was because Hochiminh agreed that after they defeated south Vietnam, they would return cochinchine territory to Cambodia. However, Hochiminh broke promise, and the presence of NVA was not withdrawn from Cambodia territory. In this circumstance, Sihanouk let Lon nol to form new government for asking help from United State but acted as if Lon nol really coupes him. The purpose of letting Lon nol run the country was to solve with the presence of NVA.
Later on, Sihanouk wanted to come back in power, and to do this he asked China to help Khmer Rouge and attacked Vietnam- starting from 1975 onward. Later on 1979, Vietnam took this excuse to invade Cambodia.
Thank you, well said. Sihanouk was the evil prince!!!!!!!!@@princeoudong2282
This is the very girl in Free Mantle War In Cambodia. If there was no invasion of N. Vietnam into Cambodia in 1970, then what are the consequences of the victims ( mostly peasants on the border of Vietnam)@@kaleidoscope3234 that were killed and wounded? where those pictures and news were faked? what about the ten of thousands of peoples ran to the cities to escape the war, & have to live on the streets? are those just to stage to the world? what for?. I was there, flesh and blood so i saw everything. The Khmers you talked to, some are too young to know, some are too old or unaware of the situations, some weren't born yet!. At the time, i was 19 years old, i am proficient in Khmer, English and French, so i was able to follow news that were broadcasts from abroad in those languages. What really happened ( we the students & most populations came to a conclusion later after the Khmer Rouge took over the Viet Cong) was Viet Cong invaded Cambodia first, then handed it over to the Khmer Rouge ( as planned) & since Khmer rouge forces swelled so much after Sihanouk fully joined them ( power greedy king!!!!!!!!), that was why people are so confused about that horrible war!
The people of Cambodia love their king
when Lon Nol backstab him because he didnt take the strong enough stand again the war in Vietnam, it only backfired when Shianouk officially support his former opposition, the Khmer rouge and turn the people of Cambodia again the goverment of Lon Nol
I am the very girl in Fremantle War in Cambodia. I was 19 years old when Lon Nol coup Sihanouk. The war went very well, Lon Nol did a good job with the Cambodian troops with so little aids from the US ( America does not want to involve any more in this war). It was the greedy Sihanouk that made so many announcements from all the Chinese and Vietnam communist radios and ask the Khmer fight each other. The parents, poor, peasants ( mostly are uneducated). So the younger generations and the intellectuals take Lon Nol's side, while the latter take Sihanouk, that is how this war turned to genocides itself, instead of against the Vietcong invaders in the beginning! May Sihanouk never rest in peace!!!!!!!!! he slaughter more than 6 millions of his people.
50000 dead compared to 10000+... wat da fuk, that 5 to 1 ratio. How the hell that happened
Chinese invasions
They can only keep track of Cambodia lost before 1979, 10000 kills from 1975 to 1979. After that the casualties of Cambodia were too hard to estimate because there are hardly any military structures left mostly just guerrillas.
Well most of the Vietnam troops were freshly conscript themselves. Well you guys manage to chase khemer rouge off from major cities but not necessarily destroyed them after all they learn from you guys how to wage guerilla wars. They simply retreat to forest and mountain with this time home field advantage were theirs. They use every tactics to make the lives Vietnam soldier and their collaborators a living hell. One thing Vietnam forget capturing was easy but keeping control were different book at all. They suffer serious logistics issue to supply overstretched troops across cambodia. By late 1980 Vietnam barely hold on the major cities and thier main roads with the rural basically surrendered to Cambodia resistance. After collapse of Soviet every single Vietnam soldiers want to boot off from Cambodia as fast they can.
@@muhammadfarhun1197most vietnamese on youtube like to brag their army destroyed khmer rouge and took phnom penh capital in 2 weeks. But, they forget this war went on for 10 years afterwards and they lost countless soldiers. There are many vietnamese war veterans who participated in campaign in kampuchea suffering from some form of PTSD. Just like how American soldiers fighting a never ending battle in Vietnam having the same war trauma they experienced in the battefield.
@@muhammadfarhun1197 Please do not speculate, collect official information to supplement your knowledge. The Red Khmer only suffer 10k casualties? That's kinda weird, they already lost like 15k in 1979 and not to mention the casualties from 1979 to 1989, I think they suffer nearly 100k casualties if you count the wounded. The casualties of Vietnam in the video is the total casualties of the entire combine force of Vietnam and their Cambodian allies not Vietnam alone. Its cool that you make this video but please do it right, I know English speaker hate us Vietnamese but please dont be that bias.
Pol Pot tried to troll Vietnam
Vietnam: Wrong time, PP.
Tôi là người việt nam
1948
It was very strange when I was in Hanoi a few years ago to ee a couple of Rolls Royce driving around. Not very communist I thought.
The country is communist only on paper because they realized that is perhaps not the best idea, which is why they slowly opened up in the 90s.
@@Caesarius Người dân phương Tây chưa một ai hiểu gì về cộng sản và chủ nghĩa xã hội. Nghe truyền thông phương Tây thì mọi thứ về cộng sản đều trở thành méo mó.
USA saved us all in WW2.
Wrong comment section
people including me , sometimes wonder , how could the khmer rouge or Cambodians could murder their own people in such a scale and method , as Vietnamese we fought a bitter war against foreigners and quite a large numbers of our own people in the enemy side but there were no blood bath when we won and unify the country ,after all, they are still our flesh and blood . All until I realize that the Khmer Rouge or the entire pol pot regime were not actually the same people they murdered , they were Khmer Chen , not khmer people.
The Khmer Rouge were educated ( Ideology ) by the big China & N. Vietnam. The theory of communism are good and appealing system, but not by practicing. Pol pot & his ding bat supporters went out of control, & became Radicals to the extreme!. What make you thinks that the KR did not killed their own Khmers?, between my spouse and me we lost appr. more than 200 people, not counting friends and neighbors and aquainttances!!!!
Vietnam: Imperialism is bad! We will fight back the invaders!
Also Vietnam: Heyyyy Cambodia... *invades*
It’s not like the Khmer Rouge didn’t ask for the ass kicking.
Why communism should be abandonded.
Capitalism first.
It works on a small scale but it doesn't for an entire country
là một người việt nam cảm ơn anh bạn đã làm video này
For now the nr 1 special forces is vietnam, 2nd is Afghanistan
Yeah sure, both forces had sucked and backstabbed the mighty US OF A dry!!!!!!!
@@kanarykim352 Actually the US won the war but they are betrayed by their politicians. What I mean is psycological war
If US Army haven’t left Vietnam in 1975…
actually they left in 1972, but if they stayed would have gone bankrupt.
1973*
*if The US Army haven't rage quit the war
if us haven't left in 1975 and what? you think the genocide of cambodia wouldn't happen?
if the US goverment+China didnt supported the khmer rouge......
Most people, including the one who make this movies, have no idea how complex the politic in Indochina has been since vietnam defeated Champa in fifteen century and took Low land Cambodia in 1949.
For that reason, I have to give credit where it dues which is for every war in Cambodia has been as result of Vietnamese aggression: creation of Indochina Communist Party in 1932 by vietnam. Creating Khmer viet minh by vietnam. creating cpp in 1951 by Vietnam. Evacuating the kvm(hun sen group) to Hanoi after the Geneva convention in 1954 by vietnam. invading Cambodia in April 1970 and fought Khmer for five years that Khmer lost in 1975 by vietnam. the communist murderous regime of pol pot/hun sen that killed Khmer in millions from 1975 to 1979 by vietnam. the invasion in 1979 to do a regime change from pol pot to hun sen by vietnam. the occupation that killed hundreds of thousands of Khmer from 1979 to 1989 by vietnam. the re-installment of hun sen to power after ranarit's coup in 1997 by vietnam. every hun sen's regime apparatus today controlled by Vietnam. Vietnam to Cambodia is like Russia to Ukraine. You take vietnam away from Cambodia politic, we would have been so happy, free and prosperous nation on earth.
Cambodian were the only one who could turn the table and defeat vietanm at their own game in 1989, with captured weapons and minimum support from outside.
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You must not forget and ingrain in your brain that if it was without the Southern Vietnamese who saved you and your ancestors from your own tyrannical people, the bloody Khmer Rouges, you wouldn’t have been born and your country would have ceased to exist because the Khmer Rouge regime would have erased Cambodia from planet earth. So be thankful that we saved you, because if Cambodia would have the another Khmer Rouge, we might not be there to save you.
You must also understand that communist of Vietnam might have had some cooperation w the Khmer Rouges, but the honeymoon was very short. The Khmer Rouges backstabbed the communist of Vietnam and its people, not that I condone communism, but the Khmer Rouge was a plague in your country. Vietnam at that time was the only country that saved your ancestors and Cambodia as a country. Otherwise, the Khmer Rouges would have wiped Cambodia off the map of SEA. You should very grateful to those Vietnamese military men & women who risked the lives to save your ancestors. My cousin was one of them. Many of his friends who served with him came back as handicaps
@@sonnynguyen5917 First of all I sympathize with you on the lost of your relative and those vietnamese who had no part in what the vietnamese government has been trying to do in Cambodia. Having said that Cambodia had been a very successful nation/empire for more than 1000 years with Indian infusion. Then Cambodia experienced a great decline to the point that we needed French to protect us from vietnam and Thailand for 99 years. from here if you follow closely to vietnam policies of interfering and manipulating in Cambodia you would appreciate why I don't appreciate your "savour" or liberation of my people or myself. And the whole world knew it when vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979. It was not about saving anyone, but it was about regime change that vietnam did not like Pol pot's attitude toward his big brother, vietnam. So call me the ungrateful. Then there is something I want to tell you, that maybe your government did not tell you. Without Sihanouk, the north vietnam would never be able to unite with the south. Without vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1970, Pol Pot and Hun Sen would never get the power in 1975. Then there were vietnamese sleeper and spies like the guy named DUC who was the head of the infamous Toul Slaeng Prison in Phnom Penh along with the Khmer Viet Minh(Vietnamese faction: hun Sen people) who worked along with Pol Pot's people. It was in 1977 that these people tried the failed coup against Pol Pot. Then in 1978 Pol Pot started the purges of the DUC people and Khmer Viet minh(Hun sEn's people). That was when vietnam knew that they had no other option but to do a full scale invasion to save their people and hun sen's people, so that the regime in Phnom Penh would be loyal and obedience to their interest like today. The honeymoon between them ended really early. Nobody trust anybody when Pol Pot sent soldiers to recapture the Koh Tral island, which is now called pho quoc in 1975. And Pol Pot did not take order from Hanoi. That was the start of the end for the end of Pol Pot.
@@sonnynguyen5917 giờ tôi thấy trách lãnh đạo Việt Nam lúc đó, giá như họ đừng đưa quân sang Cambodia, hãy cứ để polpot cho người Campuchia họ tự giải quyết giờ ta đã không phải mệt mỏi khi hiện nay Campuchia lại tiếp tục đâm sau lưng chúng ta khi cho Trung Quốc thuê 1 cảng quân sự ngay sát chúng ta.
Vietnam Vietnam's war. Despite years of fighting guerilla warfare against US and south Vietnam this doesn't mean they perform well against other guerilla warfare pointed at them. Not many them want to remember the war instead their victory against US.
They did surprisingly well, capturing Phnom Penh in a little under 2 weeks. In my opinion, the invasion wasn't as much of a liberation, more of a "please fucking stop attacking our land and people". I'm guessing Pol Pot executing anyone with Vietnamese military training played a role in this or maybe massacring his troops in the Eastern zone. The problem was that Thailand was sheltering the Khmer Rouge's leadership and they would launch attacks from Thailand. By the way, the Khmer Rouge also attacked Thai territory prior to Vietnam's invasion, albeit on a smaller scale which really proves the saying, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". The US support for the Khmer Rouge unofficially/indirectly, through things like blocking Vietnam from the IMF, or officially, like recognising the CGDK and by extension the Khmer Rouge at the UN also further proves the saying. Thailand sheltering the Khmer Rouge Vietnam did attack into Thai territories trying to get the Khmer Rouge fighters, didn't really finish them off. Also resulted in the death of Thai military and civilians. Then there was the K5 plan, which had mixed results in that some parts worked, like training up the PRK's army, and other parts were not effective, like the minelaying. But in the end, Vietnam never wanted to stay in Cambodia, they tried to leave after 1979, provided Pol Pot didn't come back to power, which was denied by China and the US. As quoted in (Second Life, Second Death: The Khmer Rouge After 1978), "After 1979, Vietnamese diplomatic strategy had aimed at a diplomatic settlement in which they would withdraw in return for a political settlement excluding the Khmer Rouge from power. The CGDK, ASEAN, China and the US all insisted that this was unacceptable. Vietnam could not be permitted to benefit from its invasion". I couldn't really fact check this but there is another reason they wanted to get tf out of Cambodia. The sanctions and restrictions on economic aid due to the invasion meant that the economy was suffering, meaning Vietnam (and by extension PRK) was relying HEAVILY on Soviet aid, in the area of over a billion dollars in aid every year. Then there was the brief Sino-Vietnamese invasion as well. The video correctly stated that Vietnam attacked and pulled back it troops. What it doesn't mention was that the Vietnamese army once again invaded Cambodia and then pulled it troops back again, making that 2 warning invasions that didn't deter Pol Pot.
You are correct that it's not as heavily publicised in Vietnam and a lot of the younger generations don't really remember the event, heck they don't even remember the Vietnam War, called the American War there. But still, you go to a Khmer Rouge/Pol Pot/Cambodian Genocide video and the comments are full of people saying "The world owes Vietnam an apology". Also again, not a lot of people know about Pol Pot or the Khmer Rouge. Amongst my friends, yes I know it's not a really accurate representation of a bigger audience, only a handful knows about them and even fewer know about their downfall.
@@waddles4560 well capturing major urban cities is far easier than securing the surrounding and rural area. One major aspect during were always forgotten in this conflict Khmer rouge was not the only one who resist the Vietnamese and their collaborators. There are still loyalist(FUCINPEC) and nationalist(KPLNF) that are against the same enemies. Problem both of them have neither the enough manpower not experience against the Vietnamese instead the former "friend" of Vietnam who use the same playbook as communist during Vietnam war. Despite losing quickly most the Khmer forces still intact and retreat to jungle and launch viscous guerilla war against the former ally. This something Vietnam fail to overcome despite retaining control of major cities. Pretty ironic mirroring how the situation of ARVN and Viet Cong during the last war. In terms of support most of ASEAN support all other although they are more keen on non communist faction. The only active foreign power that involved in direct confrontation are Thailand and China due to Vietnam encroachment of their border in attempt to hunt the Khmer which play directly with their card a conflict with Cambodia as source of ally and supply, as the latter their alliance with Khmer.
With such complex situation and not better in term of logistics like US during Vietnam war. The attrition warfare is a nightmare to Vietnam soldiers that were sent there and rude wake up from initial victory. Every young men in their army curse themselves when they were sent far away from urban centres because only death await them.
@@muhammadfarhun1197 Vietnam didn't mean to occupy Cambodia or merging Cambodia into Vietnam's territory. The main difference in Vietnam War and Vietnam-Cambodia war was after USA withdrew, South Vietnam lost, while after Vietnam's withdrew, Hun Sen, the pro-Vietnam prime minister continued to lead Cambodia to fight Khmer Rouge until Khmer Rouge surrendered in 1999.
Cambodia was able to stand on its own feet without Vietnam's direct intervention, that was Vietnam's target
@@waddles4560During this Cambodia (Khmer Red) and Vietnam situation, Vietnam was attacked by China. Some Vietnam went back and defend.
@@waddles4560 Thank you for understanding about the war to destroy Khmer Rouge. I want to supply more information from Vietnamese about this war.
Vietnamese people know the war very well. We have saved many Cambodians, helped them to have peace and escape the brutal Khmer Rouge genocidal regime. Unfortunately, there were no youtubers then. Otherwise, the world would directly witness the brutality of the Khmer Rouge because when the Vietnamese army went to Cambodian cities, there was not a single citizen there. Cambodians are sent into the fields to work like a giant farm. Many people have died due to exhaustion in concentrated living conditions, very harsh working.
Unfortunately, many civilized countries have tried to maintain the most brutal genocidal regime on the planet. Vietnam did the right thing to save the Cambodian people, it was a righteous war. The Vietnamese people lost many lives, being embargoed by the UN, causing economic recession for 20 years. However, Vietnamese people never regret having to do moral things.
Too much nationalism in the comments
Vietnam got asses kicked in Cambodia
Bro we tryna liberate a country from genocides, as well as stop the massacre of our people near our border. It's alright if we got our ass kicked, it's all worth it.
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But they won Mr China fan?
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In your delusion
Crazy how we invade Vietnam start a war then leave after 10 years and then become friends later on. It's interesting that we did the same with Cuba and still hold an embargo on them.
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