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zuky:

heapofhistory:

“Resolutely support the American people in their resistance against American imperialist aggression in Vietnam.”

A Chinese propaganda poster encouraging Chinese to support American anti-war protests, 1966.

The Chinese government also produced posters during that era supporting African American struggles in the Civil Rights movement. Of course, the Vietnam War hit closer to home. Most US Americans still haven’t wrapped their head around the realities of what that war was even about. It’s common US liberal mythology to say things like “Why were we even over there? It made no sense!” Actually, it made perfect sense in terms of US imperialism: in the wake of the unsatisfactory standoff of the Korean War, US strategic planners saw a need to dramatically demonstrate to China that they were willing to send large numbers of young men to their deaths, even against popular domestic opinion, in order to crush and destroy China’s neighbors (i.e. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos), killing hundreds of thousands or even millions of Asians, rather than allow them to come under China’s sphere of influence hostile to US imperialism.

(Source: heapohistory)