Little known? We didn’t know that the S-75 anti-aircraft missile installations that were shooting down our F-4s, F-104s, and B-52s were coming from the Soviet Union?
I think the question was who was manning the weapons.
Besides Jane Fonda, of course.
Yes, that is hardly the case to the informed, but ask any HS or college student and likely many only know of the accusations and of the relative few cases of war crimes in a 10 year jungle war with an enemy that committed "war crimes" as a matter of policy.
Who was funding the other proxy in that war? How many foreign soldiers served the other proxy? Where did they come from?
I worked for Norden Systems on radars in the 80’s and early 90’s. I mentioned this at a subsequent job to a Russian coworker and he said what a coincidence I commanded a radar installation in Vietnam. I said ‘The Russians were in Vietnam? “He sputtered and tried to back out of the statement. I told him to lighten up. We were both just doing what our government told us to do.
Yeah. Gotta call total BS on that one. It was no secret.