How did Vietnam exist?

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[bernardogoncalves]

Wow, vietnamese people fought lots of foreign invaders, remaining alive and preserving vietnamese identity. Love from Brazil 🇻🇳❤️🇧🇷

[quangtuantran]

As a Vietnamese, around 70% of our history textbook is about war. It might seem weird to some, but it s a tradition we r proud of, to have a tenacious spirit and not yielding to others.

[utkarshg.bharti]

Vietnamese people are badass! Love and respect from Bharat (India).

[hardline_fc]

I'm Armenian and I love Vietnam and Vietnamese people. It's a beautiful country with very warm and kind people. Furthermore, in Vietnam I met my wife, she's Vietnamese.

[nqh]

Nguyen here. The reason why about 40% of Vietnamese have the same family name as mine is that throughout history, especially during the Nguyen dynasty, many fugitives from defeated rebellions and factions changed their surname to "Nguyen" to avoid persecution (It was already the most popular one back then).

[mimosakhoo]

Lots of respect to the Vietnamese for their resilient. They have also handled the Covid-19 well and has the least death among South East Asia. Well wishes from Singapore.

[ebraclement]

Me: We have homework about Vietnam War
Vietnamese friend: okay which war?
Me: haha the war after world war in your country, Vietnam
Vietnamese friend: Okay which war?

[KT-]

Big respect from Algeria 🇩🇿, you inspired us a bit to rebel against France in 1954 after you guys got your independence. Algeria and Vietnam stronk 🇩🇿 🇻🇳

[tdan]

China: defeat
Mongols : defeat
France: defeat
USA: defeat
Covid-19: defeat
P/s: Sorry for making people misunderstand, Vietnam does not really win against these great powers, I say so only to emphasize Vietnam's victory over Covid 19.

[CSGhostAnimation]

Everyone: die Vietnam

Vietnam: I can't... I simply can't.

Yue people represent ✊

[thomas]

Vietnam has one of the world's most coolest history ngl . now I really want to go to Vietnam .

[allenarthurs]

Vietnam is a fascinating country with a quite interesting history, which has intrigued many people around the world. In fact, Vietnam has a long-standing history of resisting the world's great powers that had come to Vietnam uninvitedly, and all of them one by one were sadly kicked out with a humiliating defeat. The most well-known one is probably the Mongol invasion of Vietnam. According to historians, known as the most violent barbarians in human history, the Mongols had been fully responsible for displacing the world populations and changing the face of human history through their widespread bloody massacres. Scholars regard the Mongol conquest as one of the deadliest invasions in human history. In fact, it took Iran almost a century to recover its original peak population prior to the Mongols' invasion. Every inch on earth the Mongols passed, was greased with human fat and soaked with human blood. Even the deadliest winters in Russia could not deter the Mongols from invading Moscow and Kiev. After their successful conquest of the Great Russia, the Mongols again repeated the great success in the Battle of Legnica in Poland known as the Battle of Liegnitz. The powerful Mongol army totally crushed the combined defending forces of European fighters, twice its size. The decisive victories in Poland and Hungary have become some of the most celebrated episodes in the Mongols world conquest, which showed the effectiveness of the Mongol war machine. Suffering the same fate as the European countries, countries in West Asia including Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey one by one submitted to the mighty Mongol army. Sadly, China was not an exception. The Chinese Empire said to the mighty Mongol Empire, "Our empire is as vast as the sea, yours is but a handful of sand." The Chinese had paid a deadly price for their arrogance they would never forget. The mighty Mongol army creatively went around the Great Wall of China, easily got inside and savagely massacred all the Chinese people, leaving a mountain of human skulls/bones outside the Great Wall that could be visible from miles away for years. According to historians, “Body [of the Chinese prisoners] stacked ‘like rotten logs’ littered the ground for more than 30 miles.” The mighty Mongol army led by Subedei (also known as Subutai-one of the greatest military commanders and strategists in history), continued to brutally burn, pillage, rape, and murder all the populations of 90 Chinese cities for over 6 months. As a result, unable to protect the Chinese people from the Mongols' attack, China's Great Wall has sadly become a historic symbol of China's eternal shame and failure. Finally, the mighty Mongol army conquered all of China in 1279 after Western Xia Dynasty, Dali Kingdom, Jin Dynasty and Song Dynasty all one by one shamefully surrendered to the Mongols. In less than 80 years, the Mongol Empire encompassed entire land from the Pacific Ocean to the Danube River. After having successfully conquered Eastern and Central Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Great Russia, all of China in the 13th century, the powerful Mongol Empire immediately started their southward expansion where a small country known as Dai Viet (currently Vietnam) at the time was their first target. However, totally failing to achieve the great successes as seen earlier in the century, the unbeatable Mongol army met its match. In spite of having been fully equipped with thousands of well-armed warships, the mighty Mongol army of over 500, 000 well-trained troops, led by the most brilliant and successful military commanders of all time with the greatest military strategy of Sun Tzu, was totally bitterly defeated, not once but three times (1258, 1285, and 1288) by the Vietnamese; and the decisive victory of the Vietnamese army led by Vietnamese Prince Tran Quoc Tuan against the invading powerful Mongol army in the bloody battle at the Bach Dang River in 1288 eventually brought an end to the Mongols invasion of Dai Viet as well as their dream of conquering the entire world. If the Mongol Empire had learned that the Chinese Empires before them had been bitterly kicked out of Vietnam after their 1, 000-year occupation while completely failing to assimilate the Vietnamese, the mighty Mongol Empire would have never even thought of invading Vietnam.

[nolanpham]

A little extra info: The war with Cambodia after the war with America is actually Vietnamese Government trying to end the Khmer Rouge's holocaust in Cambodia. In 1975-1978, the Khmer Rouge troops actively assaulted Southern Vietnamese border and destroyed many settlements, claiming many Vietnamese lives. The Vietnamese Goverment tried their best to maintain peace, since they've just barely unified the country in 1975, after two consecutive wars no less (against the French Colonists and the Americans). However, after realizing there can be no peaceful negotiation with the Khmer Rouge regime, the Vietnamese Government decided that it's time to put a stop to it entirely. And they did. This war put Vietnam in a hard spot (international relationship-ly) and in someway, created an excuse for the China to initiate the Nothern Border War (yeah, again) from 1979.
In conclusion, the Vietnamese whooped Khmer Rouge's ass while kicking the charging bull China in the nuts, simultaneously. Costs were high, and there're still many people critised Vietnam for starting a war with Cambodia, but we're proud that we did. If not, what will the political landscape of Southeast Asia be today with the Khmer Rouge still in charge of Cambodia?
If anyone is going to bash Vietnam for this war, please be reminded that the Khmer Rouge leaders are still on trials in Cambodia for their crime against humanity. It was basically a holocaust with 2 million deaths (on a population of 7.1 millions, highest death/population ratio among any regime in the 20th century), and the Vietnamese stopped it, while other countries walked away.

[chinyabuki]

Being a Vietnamese and reading the whole comment section here, I feel so proud of my country, thank you guys!!

[dankpepe]

As a fellow South East Asian, im proud of my neighbor's history. God damn Vietnam, hardcore eh? 🇵🇭👍🇻🇳

[gautam]

I learnt about Vietnam in class X and I was very surprised to know the history of Vietnam. Ho chi minh became my personal favourite revolutionary. Hope someday I may travel to this amazing land.
Note: sorry for the typo error

[sirswitz]

The Americans thought that the Vietnamese fought for communism, they were wrong. The Vietnamese were more likely fighting for freedom
Edit: Thanks for the 1.1k likes :D

[AK-forty-seven]

I think, historians made a mistake in naming Afghanistan as the graveyard of empires, clearly Vietnam is the one that deserves it.

[accountrandom]

The U.S:Can't believe we lose to a bunch of farmers
China, Mongol, France: *First time?*

[doxtor]

Vietnam Is Respected all around the world...Love and Respect from India 🇮🇳