Vietnam! Vietnam!

mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Pro-communist propaganda from the 60s, heavily illustrated with contemporary photography.

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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Review by Chris Tame

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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">In l966 Felix Greene produced for
Penguin books another largely photographic volume,
"Times New Roman""> Vietnam! Vietnam!. That book was an example of crude
apologetics for the Vietcong in which photographs of injured civilians and
devastation were placed alongside pictures of heroic Vietcong guerrillas and
contemptible Americans (or rather, photographs chosen to evoke contempt). The
anodyne and largely non-Marxist programme of the NLF is cited as if it were a real
statement of aims rather than a typical piece of Communist propaganda to hook
credulous dupes. Needless to say, Mr. Greene has maintained a discrete silence
following the victory of the NLF. What has happened to the “democratic
freedoms, the freedom of expression, of the press, of assembly, of association,
of trade unions, of movements” promised by the 10 Point Programme of the NLF?
For Mr. Greene, the Vietnam War “ [stained]the conscience of mankind”.
Apparently, mass murder and brutal tyranny in Communist Vietnam (which has
claimed at least three quarters of a million victims) doesn’t stain his
conscience.