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The Little-Known Role of the Soviet Union in the Vietnam War ["roughly 3,000 Soviet soldiers served." "Soviet Union provided the vast majority of the military and economic aid']
Medium.com ^ | Oct 22, 2021 | Paul Combs

Posted on 03/02/2023 5:14:13 AM PST by daniel1212

What is almost never mentioned is the role the Soviet Union played in helping North Vietnam...and the mistaken belief of most people that they never played an active part at all....

Starting in 1964, North Vietnamese fighter pilots and anti-aircraft gunners were being trained in the Soviet Union, with Soviet advisors also being stationed in North Vietnam...

Soviet archives opened after the fall of the USSR indicate that these anti-aircraft crews, mainly Ukrainian, served for much of the war...

Early on, when the North Vietnamese troops were still unfamiliar with the new Soviet anti-aircraft batteries, Soviet crews manned the guns themselves and these crews did, in fact, shoot down US planes. One such Soviet battery reportedly downed six US planes

It has been acknowledged that roughly 3,000 Soviet soldiers served in North Vietnam during the war, though they were designated ../Soviet “military experts,”...

There were also widespread reports (though these were never confirmed) that Soviet snipers had embedded with NVA units and infiltrated South Vietnam to test their new SVD Dragunov sniper rifles. Witnesses described these snipers as white men with blue eyes...

within the unofficial theater of the war, Soviet GRU Spetsnaz special forces took part in at least one, and likely more, ground combat operation. In 1968, a team of ten Spetsnaz attacked a covert US base on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border, destroying three of the then-new US Cobra attack helicopters and actually stealing another. This operation was confirmed only after the fall of the Soviet Union, and if there was one Soviet special forces mission, there were almost certainly more...

[Soviets] supplied their communist allies with food, petroleum, transport vehicles, iron, steel, fertilizer, arms, and ammunition. Most critically, the Soviets supplied all of this as aid rather than loans (as the Chinese had done early in the war).


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: bidenskoolaidaddicts; military; omgputinputinputin; proxywar; putinpurpose; ukraineuberalles; vietnam
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To: Islander7

If you don’t think it is little known then bring it up to everyone you meet when you are out and about and see if they know about it.

They don’t.


21 posted on 03/02/2023 7:53:00 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

There is a helava lot of history that is little known to those under 50.


22 posted on 03/02/2023 8:06:38 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: Islander7

A lot of Vietnam vets wouldn’t know it, that kind of minutia is not known among the general public.

People know very little about wars, we get posters here that are proud of their father serving in WWII or Vietnam, but they not only don’t know what unit he was with but they don’t even know what branch he served in.


23 posted on 03/02/2023 8:34:58 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: logi_cal869
I see. How about outlining Ukraine’s offenses? Your comment warrants as much. I find no such commentary in your recent history. You are intelligent, dedicated and well-reasoned, but your distraction - ‘bias’ - on this conflict is both obvious & revealing.

Well, thanks but I do not think i am very intelligent, but where did I promote the moral integrity of Ukraine, versus stating at the outset that "the West destroys itself from within" which includes Ukraine? While I oppose Putin (growing up in the Cold War does influence that) and want his defeat (then we can focus on China, and perhaps under Trump Russia and the US could actually form an alliance with Russia, which I would like to see do well, spiritually and otherwise), and wish the two could peacefully exist (and I have said that the US did not act rightly toward Russia when it had the best chance in the 90's), yet Ukraine (which has its own history of corruption - which I have shown before on FR) is catering Western favor by importing Woke perversion, to its own hurt.

How is that for use of parenthesis?

The liberals support Ukraine because they oppose Putin for not being a team player, while both seek to do so in the interest of legacy and for dominion.

It is a tragic scenario, but the only real world peace will be when the Lord of lords Jesus Christ rules and reigns for 1,000 years, over a mixture of redeemed and lost souls who survived. Thus while "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young," (Isaiah 40:11) yet He "shall rule them [the nations] with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. (Revelation 2:27) And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. (Zechariah 14:17)

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us. (Luke 19:12-14)

24 posted on 03/02/2023 4:47:55 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Yeah. Gotta call total BS on that one. It was no secret.


25 posted on 03/03/2023 5:58:24 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: hardspunned

Do you mean China? Ha! The Vietnamese seriously hate the Chinese. They fought a brief war after we left. ThecChinese got humiliated. Vietnam would still rather ally with us than China.


26 posted on 03/03/2023 6:02:54 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Of course not, I was talking about the USA! We had our proxy South Vietnam and spent as recklessly as the globalist are doing in Ukraine. The Chinese had their proxy. Big deal if the Russians sent 3000 troops, we sent two and a half million!


27 posted on 03/03/2023 9:07:47 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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