The Korean War
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...what I saw Americans doing in Korea shook me to my heels. I suppose all my life I’ve been listening to propaganda about America being a civilised nation and some of this must have sunk in. Somehow, I never quite thought of Americans doing exactly what the Nazis did until I saw it with my own eyes.” — Alan Winnington, “I Saw the Truth in Korea” |
“The Korean masses are imbued with an idea - they have taken the power into their own hands, and they are going to liberate their country from foreign aggressors and their puppets. They know the mockery that imperialists make of the principle of national self-determination. They know from bitter experience that imperialists would never leave them alone to work out their own destinies, but would remain to perpetuate the shackles of the feudal order and to bind them to misery and endless exploitation. Therefore, in their fighting, they are determined, they are resolute, because they are struggling for their own good earth.” — Soong Ching Ling, “What the Korean People’s Struggle Means to Asia” |
The Vietnam War
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“You can bomb the Vietnamese and Korean people underground, but you cannot bomb them back into the ‘Stone Age.’ You cannot bomb out of existence those solid technical, intellectual and moral qualities they have acquired during the years of building and living under socialism.” — Wilfred Burchett, Again Korea |
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"As long as there are rivers and mountains, and as long as there are men, once the aggressors are defeated, we shall build a Vietnam that is 10 times more beautiful.” - Ho Chi Minh