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The Hidden Atrocities of the Vietnam War
The communist regime prevented journalists from documenting its war crimes, leaving an unbalanced historical record that continues to distort our memory of the conflict
By Max Hastings
Oct. 4, 2018 10:56 a.m. ET
As a young BBC correspondent visiting Saigon in 1971, I avidly devoured a bootleg copy of Frances FitzGerald’s book “Fire In the Lake,” which was officially banned. Ms. FitzGerald ended her powerful account of America’s failure in Vietnam with an impassioned expression of yearning for communist victory, when “‘individualism’ and its attendant corruption [will] give way to the discipline of the revolutionary community.” Many observers back then assumed that nothing could be worse than the bloody, shambolic, corrupt mess that had prevailed in Vietnam since the abdication of the French colonial regime in 1954.
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