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Hoa Cỏ May · Studied at Hanoi UniversityFeb 19

In the past 1,000 years Vietnam won over all invasions in Han, Song, Yuan (2 times) Qing dynasties and lost in invasion 1407, but won in 1427 over army of Ming dynasty retaking independence

In 1979, 600,000 Chinese regular army troops attacked Vietnam to force Vietnam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia, but failed. Militia and local armies from six provinces managed to stop the Chinese regular army. What heroism is there to boast about?

Looking at these naive prisoner faces, how can they claim to have defeated the Vietnamese?

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