Anti Communist Soldiers Fled To This Village In Thailand
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- My first visit to Ban Rak Thai was way too short and all I got from that first visit was that it was a Yunnanese Chinese Village thats close to the Thai/Myanmar Border. It wasn't until I went home and did proper research (way to go Forrest) that the origin story of this village was actually from fleeing Kuomintang/Nationalist Chinese forces that took refuge here from the Chinese Communist during and after the Chinese Civil War.
I came back here for the second time to explore this story...
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Please go to Khao Kor (เขาค้อ) and find out more about KMT group of soldiers. Must be very interesting. You could even make it as a series. Haven't seen any TH-camrs done it before.
In the end of video, I definitely agree with Lee. Hope you have a great day! from Tokyo
Very interesting video. I appreciate sharing Jata's story. Thank you
My Father was a Korean War veteran and Chinese POW. He unconditionally disliked ( hated ) " Hippies "
During the Late 60's South Florida had a great Hippie invasion, Nixon was the US President. It became a running joke. My little Brother who was 14 years younger than me ( must of been like 3 years old ) came up with a Good one.
One of sisters would scream
" Oooo a Hippie !"
Little Brother would then say
" Squash'em like a Roach" or
" Squash'em like a Bug!"
To this day he sports a Crew cut ( like Dad had ) & hates All Hippies.
Your intensity reminds me of my Little Bro.
Saw you on the Thaiger channel and you mentioned this video. Very well done and informative with in-depth analysis. Will review some of your older videos and hope you continue with more of this type around Thailand. Good luck with your travels.
Thanks, Forrest and you guys for the Video krap!🙏🙏🙏
Great video Forrest, I am older than you and I am deeply impressed by your principle's and bravery to share them! keep the video's coming, you will always have a friend here!
Fascinating, just found your channel, love it I,m diving in head first.
Epilogue was spot on! Very well said brother. I know you know what's really going on and cannot say it on TH-cam.
Great vid. Great content. Been to Chiang Mai (easy to like), Pai overnight, Chiang Rai, Golden Triangle. Thanks for the rediscovered history lesson. Now I have to return. Anticipate more quality programming.
I respect your closing opinion. If you know of anyone who swam from HK to mainland, please share !
Respect and support. Great video Forrest i learnt something today
My grandfather was also fighting for the KMT and big parts of my family still lives near to the borders. Really nice and interesting to see. Good Interview!
Forrest a minor correction, you pointed to a steel shell helmet from World War II, Korea or Vietnam and said it was Kevlar? Well Kevlar was not developed at all in any measure until the late 1960s and was not used in actual combat until the first Gulf War.
Really love your content, keep it up 👍
Three groups of them in Thailand 1. Rakthai village in Maehongson 2. Peangloung village in Vhianghang district Chiangmai (I ever saw woman who has small feet here) 3. Maesalong village in Chiangrai.
That was the most beautiful commentary I have ever heard! You should have led the video with that. That was outstanding! Run for office! You got my vote!
Very interesting history. Thanks
Fascinating history, I'd love to visit there someday!
King Bhumibol Adulyadej such a humble caring man.
I really like this village, just chill out and relax.
informative video ! Thanks for sharing
I've visited Maesalong before. Amazing history, and very good tea.
ຂ້ອຍຊັງຄົນຮິບປີ
khony sang khon hippy!
Thanks for the lesson and video!
19:20 - ICOM IC-718 HF All Band Transceivers (70s ham radios.)
Agree with Woke and your sentiments. I must visit Ban Rak Thai and learn more.
Great video for history lovers.
Nice to meet you Forest in Pai . Believe it or not I’m an old hippie lol . Followed the Grateful Dead around from 1974-1995 . I bet I surprised you in seeing a subscriber all the way up north here But I’m happily living the retired life with my Thai partner . Cheers travel safe !!
Amazing video. I echo your sentiments.
Very well said. Bravo
Good to get your views world wide really little is known about that part of the world, its conflicts and effects for generations to come. I've been married to a part Chinnese part Thai lady for over 30 years as a New Zealander I find it amazing how little the Southern Thais know of the Northern part of Thailand. Again good to see you digging out part of history. I try to explain that part of the world but alas my words fall on deaf ears in disbelief.
555+++ As Thais, I don't like to visit Pai.
The 93 Army has long stories and a complicated backgroud. They fought for us in many battlefields.
Thank you very much for your tour. Keep working on it bro. Cheers !!!
Did your friend, the kid with the cough, have COVID?
Wow!! What a story.
Thanks for vlogging this piece of facinating history. If you are interested in learning more about the Kuonmintang I highly recommend former US Ambassador to Thailand Richard Gibson's book: The Secret War which is the most comprehensive history of the KMT to date involving the CIA, opium, and contributing to the deterioration of US-Burma relations. Idk how much you read ur old comments but keep up the great work anyways!
"Albert Einstein was the first hippie. He loved the idea of peace, he was a vegetarian and a musician... and the hair!" - Nassim Haramein...And 1000x smarter than anyone involved in making this video!
it was very interesting to hear about taiwan thank you forest sequel for all your vlog super👍👍👍😉❤👍👍❤❤❤❤🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wow excellent video Thailand has so much more than offer than video of bar girls
Thanks for this historic lesson
There is another Chinese village fairly close to Pai. I visited it but don't know much about it.
Thank you for standing up against CCP
This part of Thailand apparently has very high pollen in the air. People who suffers from asthma or hayfever should check when it is the best time to visit. Please remember what happened to Teresa Teng when she paid a visit to Chiang Mai.
How the hell can anyone give this video a dislike??? Not only does it cover important moments of 20th century history, it's relevant to current-day issues, which are unfortunately still relevant. 👍
It's all the hippies🤣
The ignorant woke crowd downvotes it.
Young liberals will hate this guy surely
Long live the growing global communist movement! In India and the Philippines, the Communist Party is fighting a brave revolution.
Lee are u half Burmese Chinese just wondering bro
He’s 100% a fool
Tell me more about Phayao. Have a fb friend there
Forrest , an interesting rant at the end of your video. I Agree about your thoughts on communism IN THE PAST !. You being a Chinese American. When was the last time communists bombed innocent civilians. Because of a LIE.I wonder what the young communists think,Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Cuban, leave your comments please.
Alex Wilson; I am with you on this one. I click on this video is because I found Forrest previous videos interesting and I know he is a person speaks his mind but disappointed with his rent at the end. China today have made 1.5 million Chinese in China and abroad and including I believe many Asian countries stand tall and proud.
China today 1.5 billion Chinese in China and abroad including many Asian countries stand tall with heads held high and proud
@@DC-bk7on Forrest's father was from Hong Kong. I guess he's like many people from HK and Taiwan that he does not consider himself Chinese.
Amen
Interesting history, Hawai’i, China and Taiwan’s modern history was very much tied together through Sun Yat-sen.
I miss King rama 9 🥺 Thank you for share🙏
I walked around the Golden Triangle in January 1976. I met Kuomintang soldiers and also groups of irregular soldiers carrying guns and travelling with their girlfriends and pet dogs. As I do not speak Chinese, Thai or the Hill Tribe dialects, I did not understand the history of these groups.. The Hill Tribes and the Kuomintang soldiers moved between Burma and Thailand. The only transport in the area was by foot or pack horses. Also in January 1976, I visited Thamassat University in Bangkok. There I met left wing students selling communist literature. In October of that year, there was a coup. Many of these left wing students joined the Thai Communist Party and fought the Thai Army near the Lao border. The Thai Communist Party was not defeated by the Thai Army, but by internal divisions. Some supported Beijing and wanted to speak only Chinese. Others wanted to speak only Thai and retain the Thai monarchy. The communist governments of Laos and Vietnam supported Moscow after 1978. King Rama 9 granted an amnesty to members of the Thai Communist Party and the party dissolved.
I don't get it, when he was 11, it was 1973, but the Chinese civil war ended in 1949.
And the KMT lost to the CCP because of corruption.
@@se7enzee444 what has that got to do with my question?
never ended and never civilized
Maybe they are just fabricating everything. They just tricking these dumb foreigner about fake history lol. This isn’t even a problem of history. It’s common math. They would be at least around 80-100 if they fought in the actual civil war. This guy is younger than my dad lol.
I am glad someone pointed it out. Lol I thought I was tripping. Maybe they meant they fought in vietnam war? Lol but even that it still doesn't make sense but yea they looked way too young to fight in the war in China.
What's wrong with hippies? I don't get it. They are living their lives without hurting anyone. I have met a lot of nice hippies who prayed for my daughter when she was dying from serious illness. Do not judge anyone. Someone could judge you for thousands of things. I don't drink and smoke weeds but I don't judge people who do. I have friends who judge others who drink. I have friends who judge others for smoking cigarettes. I have friends who judge people for making TH-cam videos for living. Someone will judge you for skin color, nationality, religion, weight, age and any small insignificant things.. it is not good idea to start off your video with negative attitude towards a group of people who are here in this world for reason. Every single thing has meaningful reason to be here. Don't get me wrong I am nowhere near being hippie. I got my work and family.
Hey man. Nicely put. If you have a place in this world, there is hope for me.
Kuomintang army in 195-1966 stay in burma and Thailand
Concur with your feelings towards commies, spent 20 years in the AF, and 21 years DoD keeping them in there place. Heading down under to continue my work.
Forrest, can I introduce you to my friend, Cartman? 😂
Despite that joke, I appreciate your bold political statement. I'll be interested to see if the TH-cam algo gives you grief
I've still never been in Chang Mai!
Maybe I should be less judgemental and more open minded....
Nahhhhhhh
Weren't you doing some cannabis stuff recently in a video? Damn hippie.
Jata looks too young if he was 11 years old in 1949 when kuomintang lost and fled to taiwan or thailand. He should be around 70 to 80 yrs old no like 45.
Ya there can’t be many alive who actually fought. They would be nearly 100 years old by now
I noticed this discrepancy.
I wouldn't over-worry about the state of the world politically. My heritage is Polish, and you know what that means. Many escape their countries to live in what is considered "the land of the free.:" That has changed here and there in the States and certainly "mainstream media," but many voices are arising now and not afraid to speak the truth. The wind may change.
He was 11 when fought the war. I guess it was before 1949. He looks somewhat too young to me if this video was produced in 2022.
Communism exist for a reason always learn from the history mostly due to A Fail State … I am not a fan of Communism either. But read from history books how Communism came about at the first place. 🙏
Hopefully Forrest, the longer you live and mix with real Thai people ( if they are good enough for you) you will rid yourself of the very judgmental flat tyre attitude you have, believe me one day you will lose it , I hope I am there to see it. Ps. Every day is a learning day, every day is a teaching day.🙏🇹🇭
@6:50 - if that guy fought for the KMT army, he would have been in his late 70s to early 80s.
@8:19 Wrong! The KMT lost because of corruption. They were better funded; thus, had better weapons.
Your title should be changed to the defeated militants in Chinese civil war fled to Thailand
Well don't hold back, and tell us how you really feel about hippies...
eyes are bloodshot, i guess you were trying to "find yourself" lol JK
Your dumping on people in the beginning of the video sort of turned me off because it seemed so judgemental. You came off like you really have something against Yoga for some reason. I found that odd. I still gave you a thumbs up because I really enjoyed the history search. I chalk the rest up to not being away from American Tribalism long enough to have let that go.
the minimum eighty year old kmt ex fighter looks no older than forest lee at 30 plus year old
That guy fought in 1973 in idk what war because civil war was over 1949. This guy is not even smart. That man never fought in any civil war but yet the dude in the video also can’t do simple math to realize that it’s impossible for this guy to have fought in the civil war
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Kuomintang
You seem to have a dislike for various types of people old expats over a certain age, Backpackers and now Hippies. By calling all hippies as being dirty and smelly seems very narrow minded! Being a Hippie isn't about how you dress and look, It's a state of mind. I know many Hippies that wear 3 piece suits and sit on board rooms! As for your comment "How to find ones self besides doing drugs there are many ways such as studying various religions, self help books and reading about psychology! I thought the idea about travelling was to make people more broad mined?? Sure seems it hasn't worked for you! You seem to have some very REDNECK POINT OF VIEWS !!! As for the 3 groups of people mentioned here that you dislike they helped open this country up before mainstream tourism arrived in Thailand and have helped making travel here for the likes of people like you and so called mainstream tourist to come here and get around easy!
Smoking a lot of weed and doing a bunch of mushrooms is pretty much the formula for finding yourself. You just have to get back to reality afterwards.
Give you super respect, I almost thought you were another liberals after seeing you on Thaiger show.
Very interesting report. Unfortunately the media and education structures don’t inform young people of the horrific evils of communism and socialism so they think it’s cool.
Very many vets from the American war in Vietnam became hippies and helped bring that shameful event to an end. It pays to learn a little history.
Agree and support your stance against communism. Nothing against Chinese people, only against the authoritarian and genocidal Chinese communist State.
Wish I was a cop back when Nixon was in office ,
Back when they had Billy clubs and were allowed to use them
Hippies are the worst
Lol @ the lady @ 3:40.. she be like you’re a Hippie Hater so get lost 😳🤣. Keep rocking the Vids Forrest 🙏🙏
#IMHO
what do you think about the leftist and socialist movement that the US is moving toward these days?
Sorry, but not all socialism is bad. I would rather have universal health care in Australia (where I live), than the American health system, for example. Health care was fought for by the working unions, to give basic protection to every Australian citizens. No Australian will give this up, and yet it’s a socialist thing..
Exactly! Without all those social programs, the elderly, disabled and poor people are going to be in trouble.
You are very prejudicial against "hippies" but never gave a reason why you don't like them?
No one likes hippies. Hippies don't even like hippies. No explanation needed. Lol
Hippies make a huge tourist population in thai due to its cheapness
it's a kmt losing army that left in thailand, and kmt did not take care of them, which is kind embarassing
Are you really a Trump supporter
I’m anti-communist too brother 🇺🇸👍
Long live our brave communist comrades in Thailand. Long live the revolutionary communist movement!
You can make a point without generalizing and insult. Other than that...nice!
We are experiencing this communist take over worldwide and especially in Canada. I plan to leave very soon.
Fuck communism; best comment I have heard today
Long live our brave communist comrades in Thailand. Long live the revolutionary communist movement!
Great video. I hate commies and this video is right up my alley. I should make a point to visit this town to support my fellow almost "Taiwanese."
Long live the growing global communist movement. All anti-communists can rot in hell!
You need to calm yourself down my friend, and start to enjoy you GUEST STATUS, in Thailand, remember this Fact. You are a guest not an Expat. Ps, I know deep down you have a good heart.🙏🇹🇭
Word. Too many duped young people! Fuck communism!
Forrest interesting vlog but a word of advice 1)Try not to be judgemental and broaden your horizons because you get good & bad in all types and this includes "Hippies" 2) Keep politics out of your vlogs because it divides people/audience as it has done throughout time.
I'll bet you are a Trumper!
He’s just a white supreme it’s stuck in a fake Chinese guys body lol
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