05.03.2009
Sergei Balmasov
Source: Pravda.Ru
"Not so long ago, each Vietnamese student studying at local medical schools was supposed to fetch a couple of Chinese skulls from the jungle for practical classes." [KI-Media note: This is a hint for Cambodian medical school students. Numerous dead Bo-dois are still lying inside Cambodian jungle.]Vietnam heroically repulsed China’s attack 30 years ago. The enmity between the two states continued for over 2,000 years. Vietnam’s territory was spreading to the Yangtze River 2,500 years ago. The Vietnamese proved 30 years ago that they could still wage war.
The war broke out in 1979 because of the tense relations between the USSR and China. The two communist regimes were fighting for the influence on the countries of the socialist camp. Beijing could not boast of any success: the sphere of its influence included only Albania and Kampuchea.
Pol Pot attacked Vietnam’s border territories in 1978. Hanoi responded with deploying its troops in Kampuchea in December 1978. China obtained a reason to interfere on Pol Pot’s side and occupy Vietnam in order to weaken the Soviet influence in the world.
The United States stood behind the conflict: the country was struggling against communism. The USA was setting China against the USSR’s allies promising its support to Beijing.
The 600,000-strong Chinese army attacked Vietnam along its entire 1,460-kilometer border. Vietnam had only two divisions to oppose China’s 44. About 85 percent of Vietnam’s troops were stationed in Cambodia, thousands of kilometers away. However, China failed to have a blitzkrieg: Vietnam did very well without the basic part of its regular forces.
Border guards and local militia men showed fierce resistance to the aggressor. The Chinese troops moved only 15 kilometers inside Vietnam during the first three days of the war. Only several thousands of Vietnamese border guards deterred a whole army.
The Vietnamese militia joined the war on the third day only. The Chinese troops were moving along narrow paths in the jungle - the surroundings were very convenient for entrapments. The Vietnamese soldiers eventually dismembered the enemy’s army into several parts.
A group of Soviet counselors arrived in Vietnam on February 19. Moscow set its Eastern troops on high alert and threatened to invade China. The USSR’s Pacific Fleet was approaching China’s coast. Soviet warplanes transported a group of the Vietnamese army from Kampuchea, which made it possible to organize a 100,000-strong group of Vietnamese military men.
China began to pull back its troops on March 5. The country declared its victory but never explained why it had failed to defend Pol Pot, its bloody ally. Vietnam pulled back from Kampuchea only ten years afterwards, having defeated the Khmer Rouge.
The Vietnamese troops were following China’s retreat for two weeks and killed 62,500 Chinese soldiers. They also destroyed over 50 percent of China’s military hardware that was involved in the aggression.
The vestiges of that war still echo today. Not so long ago, each Vietnamese student studying at local medical schools was supposed to fetch a couple of Chinese skulls from the jungle for practical classes. The incursion of 1979 proved that Vietnam has one of the best soldiers in the world, who definitely know how to defend their native land.
14 comments:
go back home, youn! illegal youn is not welcome in cambodia!
Wrong, Yuon is our liberator; as such they can come any go to Cambodia anytime they please, our home is their home.
liberator my ass! quit that liberator broken crap record 11:02 AM before we tell you to go eat Yuon's shit and die, you hear?
I'm not suprised that the VietNamese could resist the invasion from the north so well as they had more than 20 years of experience fighting the Americans during their war of National Reunification which followed the war of Liberation from the French!
"liberation" was only a pretext for INVASION + OCCUPATION
Seconding you on that, 11:15 AM! Thanks.
China proceeded to teach Vietnam a lesson and came back learning heaps from its pupil. Hey it's one of those win-win situation self-improvement gurus have been harping about.
Russia is not as powerful as they used to be. Right now they are just riding along with China to protect themselves from the US.
Mr. Balmasov is too bias in favor of Vietnam and the Soviet Union. It was a true fact that China did not succeed in gettting the invading Vietnamese troop out its client state of Democratic Kampuchea in 1979, by its own invasion of North Vietnam. The aim of China though was to teach Vietnam a lession, and not to occupy Vietnam as the French and the American did which prove costly. China was a poor country.
That Chinese lesson was well thought to the Vietnames, that Vietnam should not invade Cambodia, and that Vietnam should not be too close to the USSR. Before the Chinese invasion, Vietnam had been killing chinese citizen and laying mines on the Chinese borber for months. China met its objective in this short invasion by occupying the border areas for years, and by destroying Lang Son, Nap Phai, and Lai Chau (3 Vietnamese provicial capitals). Many old French quaters in these 3 cities were destroyed. Event today some Vietnamese border lands are still in the hand of the Chinese after a long protracted negotiation. Please read the real historical fact in "Sino Vietnamese War", Library of Congress ISBN 974-8493-07-5.
China was a bad teacher no doubt, but its spoil brad pupil Vietnam got a bloody nose. China suffered more loss of lives. But Vietnam lost more properties and more border lands in this war.
For those of you who thinks Vietnamese had won some sort of moral victory against China is an oxymoron. If she chose too, the Chinese army could have wiped the entire Vietnamese garrison.
Impossible, Viet is highly resilient.
2:29pm: excuse my ignorance but, if China was victorious on that border war, how come Vietnam was able to maintain its army in Cambodia way past 1979 right up to 1989? At least on that count China lost.
Whoever said Yuan is our liberator his brain and eyes really need replacement. Did you remember Khmer Krome, Koh Tral and Te Ong's history?. Hok Lundy ( dead ) his real name is Troeung Van Soeung (Youn Sot). Did you know that?. In Phnom Penh Youn Armies with the civilian outfit and they divided the city as their own sections very secretly to contol all the Cambodian activities...etc. Their are a lot of thing about Youn for Khmer. My friend you better read Cambodian's history and never ever make friend with the enemy as your master. (PHDs without school sign by Youn). Are you Youn or Khmer HUH!?.
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