Municipalities all over the world actually fly the South Vietnamese flag out of respect to local Vietnamese communities and it has been reclassified as the “Freedom and Heritage Flag” in a number of cities across the country. Flag of South Vietnam raised at Boston City Hall to memorialize the Fall of Saigon ( CC BY-SA 4.0) For that generation, the flag became a banner, a memorial, and a link connecting the South Vietnamese scattered around the globe.
Many Vietnamese fled the south entirely, and when the first wave of southern Vietnamese refugees resettled in other parts of the world in the late 70s and early 80s, their music, history, culture, and other symbols, like the flag, became the responsibility of this diaspora. The new government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam immediately went to task undoing years of capitalist influence on the southern half of the country with grim efficiency. After the fall of Saigon, the north and south once again became one nation. The US wanted South Vietnam to be its anti-communist stronghold in Southeast Asia, but as the war dragged on, it became clearer and clearer that a democratic Vietnam was not possible. These two Vietnams clashed in a civil war that lasted for two decades. A red field with a bright yellow star at the center - the five points of the star were to represent peasants, workers, intellectuals, traders, and soldiers, united in their effort to build a socialist future. In the North, leadership wanted the same thing: a unified Vietnam under those same two colors. The yellow symbolized the people and the three stripes represent the three distinct regions of the country: North, Central, and South Vietnam unified under one banner. The flag of South Vietnam was a yellow field with three thin red stripes running horizontally across the center. Each side had separate ideologies, territories, and flags. The south, meanwhile, is nominally democratic, albeit with a lot of US influence. So Vietnam was partitioned at the 17th parallel, with a communist country in the north.
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It was also decided that until free elections could be held, the country would be split in two. Countries like the US were concerned that communism would continue spreading throughout Southeast Asia.ĭuring the 1954 Geneva conference, it was decided that France would withdraw from Northern Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh and his army, the Viet Minh defeated the French in 1954 which rattled the Western world.
Rather, Vietnam needed to be a completely independent, communist state.
But there were leaders like Ho Chi Minh in the North, who believed that there would never be a path toward prosperity under any form of imperialism. Within Vietnam, there were those who were against colonialism but still wanted to stay closely aligned with the United States. Ho Chi Minh (standing, third from left) in 1945 with USS OSS Deer Team For decades France exploited Vietnam’s natural resources and suppressed Vietnamese identity, going so far as to ban the word “Vietnam” from the region because it was associated with self-determination. Vietnam spent much of its early history ruled by China, and then in the mid-1800s, Vietnam came under the control of France. Because the country has spent over a thousand years being ruled by outside forces. The Republic of Vietnam, or more commonly known as South Vietnam, was formed in part as a reaction to colonialism. A propaganda painting with National Flag of France and Nguyen Dynasty’s Standard, Hanoi, 1942, reading: “Greater France is closely linked to peace, like the peasants with their land.”. And what this flag stands for (or should stand for) remains a really contentious issue for the Vietnamese American community. But what was peculiar about the Vietnamese flag being there was that it’s not technically the flag of Vietnam but the Republic of Vietnam, a country that no longer exists.
There were actually several confounding international flags present at the Capitol riot that day: the Canadian, Indian, South Korean flags, all were spotted somewhere in the mayhem. Why were there South Vietnamese flags at the rally-turned-riot on January 6? via Paul Mooney 慕亦仁 January 16, 2021
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