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The PRC conflict with Vietnam lasted 3 weeks. Is it possible, that rather than being a massive cover-up, that war simply wasn't a generation-defining moment fo
by free_rms 6y ago
The PRC conflict with Vietnam lasted 3 weeks.
Is it possible, that rather than being a massive cover-up, that war simply wasn't a generation-defining moment for them?
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War#Chinese_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War#Chinese_me...
- actuator 6y agoShort in span, but about 30k deaths in those 3 weeks and being humbled by a much smaller opponent. While I will agree that it might not have been a generational defining moment, but those numbers are massive enough to warrant institutional and popular culture memory as it happened just 41 years back.