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Man, this article implies that Germany, starting in 1970, was largely responsible for Vietnam's coffee production industry, and remains a huge international mar

Man, this article implies that Germany, starting in 1970, was largely responsible for Vietnam's coffee production industry, and remains a huge international market for Vietnam's production. But this other article says the French introduced coffee production to Vietnam in 1857, that the industry peaked in the early 20th century, and that production actually crashed in the 1970s due to the Vietnam War--and it doesn't even mention Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_production_in_Vietnam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_production_in_Vietnam Pretty rare to see two linked Wikipedia articles contradict each other that much.

rawfan 8y ago
Not Germany. EAST-Germany. Different country (at the time).
smcl 8y ago
The "East German coffee crisis" article is referenced in the "See also" section, for what it's worth
flohofwoe 8y ago
I guess the East German coffee crisis is fairly obscure and not well known in the world. Maybe East Germany's need to buy coffee for soft currency was one reason why the Vietnamese coffee production was rebuilt after the war. East Germany and socialist Vietnam had a very close relationship after the Vietnam war (for instance there were a lot of young Vietnamese students and industrial trainees in the 70's and 80's in Eastern Germany).
qubax 8y ago
> Pretty rare to see two linked Wikipedia articles contradict each other that much. It isn't contradictory. The french did colonize vietnam and force cash crops on vietnam ( like all colonial empires did ). But during the indochina war ( 1st and 2nd ), vietnam's coffee industry ( and all non-war related industry ) crashed due to the war itself and sanctions levied by the US/France. Vietnam was pretty much barred from trading with the western world, their primary market. As the indochina war drew to a close and the coffee industry revived because of friendly soviet-vietnam relations and the opening of markets in soviet dominated europe. It wasn't just coffee, lots of vietnamese immigrated to soviet dominated to work and study as well. At one point, the largest non-white communities in eastern germany, poland, etc were vietnamese.

rawfan 8y ago

Not Germany. EAST-Germany. Different country (at the time).

smcl 8y ago

The "East German coffee crisis" article is referenced in the "See also" section, for what it's worth

flohofwoe 8y ago

I guess the East German coffee crisis is fairly obscure and not well known in the world. Maybe East Germany's need to buy coffee for soft currency was one reason why the Vietnamese coffee production was rebuilt after the war. East Germany and socialist Vietnam had a very close relationship after the Vietnam war (for instance there were a lot of young Vietnamese students and industrial trainees in the 70's and 80's in Eastern Germany).

qubax 8y ago

> Pretty rare to see two linked Wikipedia articles contradict each other that much. It isn't contradictory. The french did colonize vietnam and force cash crops on vietnam ( like all colonial empires did ). But during the indochina war ( 1st and 2nd ), vietnam's coffee industry ( and all non-war related industry ) crashed due to the war itself and sanctions levied by the US/France. Vietnam was pretty much barred from trading with the western world, their primary market. As the indochina war drew to a close and the coffee industry revived because of friendly soviet-vietnam relations and the opening of markets in soviet dominated europe. It wasn't just coffee, lots of vietnamese immigrated to soviet dominated to work and study as well. At one point, the largest non-white communities in eastern germany, poland, etc were vietnamese.