NewsReel Time is Running Out Vietnam

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the us everything this attacks pagodas temples the houses schools and hospitals they adopt genocide they try to destroy everything in a village they want that nobody can live in that village in the last four years the US have come here an attack our tower you have seen the ruins be like yo yo Sam home unless you have seen the ruins you may find that the crimes perpetrated by us and released here - I was sitting and learning together with my classmates two bombs were dropped let me get wood it my aunts and uncles have transported me to the hospital and I got soon recovered I came back to the school to carry on with my studies he has doing well he has been doing well he has made good achievements in his work here I got into Peter Pan one term he was buried by earth caused by bombs he survived see the Numa lumpia Lanka the chunk of the young Numa to than one bird entire didn't move yet they adopt a war of extermination and they attack around the clock and these attacks continued for months on end we receive a very privileged treatment by the US imperialists an old woman told us three times we rebuilt this village the French destroyed our school and pagoda the Japanese burned our rice warehouses the u.s. planes have dropped more bombs than we can count and nap arm and pellets each time we rebuild I come from the south I know how hard the life is there my whole family worked on a French rubber plantation but we could not live on the wages we were paid we almost starved there was no food in the countryside only the rich and the French had all the food they wanted I ate so little my hair came out in clumps when I pulled at it my family married me to a peddler who went from village to village he worked at the Viet Minh carrying information and messages one day he did not come back and then the Viet Minh sent an officer to tell me he had been caught by the French and shot so I left that village and went away every day I went to the French garrison and counted the number of plateaus and what weapons they carry I sent my son on bicycle to tell the Viet Minh when the French occupied way we went into the jungles we fought in the jungles until the French were defeated I have cooked thousands of meals for our soldiers and I've carried messages set traps planted bombs even fired a rifle I have killed the French and I would kill the Americans too if they came here we lived in our shelters throughout the bombing we still keep them ready until the Americans are driven out of the south there can be no peace many of us have grown old fighting for our country but we are not tired and our young people are strong we have defeated the French from the Japanese and we will also defeat the Americans [Music] [Applause] I helped to organize this neighborhood market before the Revolution there was only the Central Market if we got there too late the few fruits and vegetables were gone only the French could afford what little milk ramita there was I joined the party when I was 18 because I saw the party work every day to try to who proved our life party organizers came into the legit and said we don't have to live this way our land is rich enough our people are strong and hard-working when we control all our resources we can make a new and better life for ourselves [Music] [Music] that was more than 20 years ago since then we have pasted all the problems that arose as we tried to build a society we wanted we needed new foods to improve our diet and our health the French concentrated on rice for their own profit they never tried to diversify our food we had to learn to grow new crops and then to teach these methods to our people we had to overcome old habits that wasted land and once we harvested the new foods we had to distribute them throughout the country so that everyone shared [Music] all this hizmet hard work for us I have worked in the store for the past four years and even here we have not solved many of our problems but throughout our cities and countryside people eat plentifully and well so and we'll have enough milk for everyone and not just the children someday meat won't be rationed our surplus fruits in rice go south to feed our countrymen fighting the Americans after the war is over we'll use that surplus to buy the machines that can help us increase our food production what we want is simple a better life for all our people our shift in our militia group aren't up to full strength yet during the air war all of us loved tannoy and split up into small groups I worked underground in town wah some of the others went to the viet bak now we stay prepared but our drills are mostly a way to teach the younger ones those who never left the city never fired a rifle or loaded a heavy gun during a US attack [Applause] we keep all our factories going three shifts a day I work the night shift from 11:00 till 7:00 in the morning a whole group talked it over and decided to volunteer because we didn't have families to take care of our factory makes the basic loft we use in Vietnam as we make more cloth each year we can begin to export and bring in the things we need we need looms these looms are old some of them go back to the French it takes us hours of careful work to keep them going before the air war some of us spent one day a week at the Polytechnic learning how to take apart and repair all our machines but our ship left an aura at the same time the Polytechnic was decentralized they're only just beginning to return from the countryside I spent three years at school in the countryside before I ever saw the Polytechnic or Hanoi I know our labs are simple but to us they offer great possibilities the only chemistry I learned before was the periodic tables and a set of formulas memorized from a Russian textbook all of us feel the same excitement here as we begin to work with the tools we need yes we know that our work is practical and applied when compared to scientific research in the West but all our tasks are concrete and practical until the entire country is no longer under developed someday I think that Polytechnic will be a center of basic research and our children will greatly expand the useful limits of men's knowledge [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hello hey - Nicole - DeeDee and salmon to drop in a AHIMA and community ANOVA Oh Wamba you have to say Bob Jones / ruling but - who had no luck with her boo me a name [Applause] [Music] when a Central Committee met at the province level we tried to develop the most concrete goals for our villages rebuild all bombed houses and replace destroyed belongings and food as quickly as possible dig more shelters and dig them deeper and stronger for throughout the province shelters are the key to the safety and confidence of the people we used each night to prepare for the next day's raids we needed great mobility and resourcefulness for as we brought down more planes they would change their tactics raids at dawn at nightfall they use time bombs chemicals continuous shelling from the seventh Fleet but our confidence never diminished and we never relaxed our vigilance our province brought down the nation's three thousands plane and many of our gun crews have received awards though they worked both night and day artillery men requested not to be rotated into lighter duties and there were so many men and women from our villages who volunteered for any aircraft training that we were never able to train all of them some of the gun crews that had worked together for many months found ways to simplify the moving of the guns and they developed techniques for coordinating their fire and taking advantage of local conditions so that officers of the province learned much from their experience we keep complete records in order to forget nothing we want to remember not only our suffering but also our hatred and our victories we record the date of each raid the names of everyone injured in the extent of their injuries any party secretary can tell you exactly who and what each family has lost in our houses of tradition we keep photographs a part of each plane downed equipment of the captured pilots the weapons that were used against us in the weapons that we use to defend ourselves we keep our awards there and all the things that will remind us of our daily struggle many years after the Americans are defeated our children will visit these houses to learn of the war we have fought but we celebrate our achievements not only in the villages but also in Hanoi we come together from all over our country as many friends Hanoi is the capital city but it must never be a port from our villages in des moines de una yet yet this old man told us when I was a young man I said you better leave this country you don't have rights here you don't own land you can't even make a living so I went to Singapore to work in the docks but the English threw me in jail and then ship me back to Vietnam there was still no work I was jailed by the French for stealing then I killed a French soldier and fled to the Delta I lived like a bandit then I joined the Viet Minh and fought the French for 11 years I was a genuine fool when they marched out under our guns I thought we won and we'd never have to fight again the valley of Jin bin foo was a wasteland from the craters of our shows we went to work in the land the French ruined and we build it up again we build schools and hospitals in the countryside factories to make what we needed we dug thousands of miles of new dikes and planted rice on land where weeds wouldn't grow [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] my village was bombed and HAMP destroyed on the same day I got the letter from Hanoi admitting me to the Polytechnic I didn't want to leave but my father told me to go he said there would always be enough villagers to man the anti-aircraft guns and build the shutters and how would we get the engineers and doctors we need it if everyone stayed home to defend his village besides I wouldn't be going to Hanoi but hit the Kiang Valley not so far north and almost as dangerous the Polytechnic had been decentralized in faculties were scattered throughout the countryside so I left my village and traveled north to join my classmates we went through our share of the bombing rebuilt the roads the Americans cut and filled their craters many of us had relatives and friends we'd never see again we had to fight the feeling of being spared so we worked constantly we built our classrooms and labs from bamboo constructed or invented all our tools and what we couldn't make ourselves the army engineers found or else we used American contributions we dismantled the wrecks of their engines to make spare parts for our lathes and Turner's we built telephone relays from the remains of their instrument panels and we helped the local people bring in the harvest and clear new land we learned their local songs to sing with the ones we taught each other [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah oh yeah [Applause] [Music] every three months two of us were chosen to go to Hanoi and Amman the polytechnics defenses all the faculties help rotate the gun crews we kept the Polytechnic open throughout the war [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] on the 15th anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Accords a mass meeting of representatives of the entire nation was held in Hanoi the following appeal written by Ho Chi Minh was read by Prime Minister FEM van dong countrymen the Armed Forces and people in the north have defeated the u.s. aggressors air war the Armed Forces and people in the south are defeating the US land war four-fifths of South Vietnam's territory the three-quarters of its population have been liberated under these victorious conditions the South Vietnam Congress the people's representatives met and elected the provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam after the total liberation of South Vietnam from foreign invasion the provisional coalition government will organize free and democratic general elections to enable the South Vietnamese people to determine for themselves their own government but so long as US troops in the Saigon administration remain genuinely free and democratic elections will be impossible therefore the Vietnamese people demand the withdrawal of all US troops and their satellites not simply the withdrawal of only 25,000 or 250,000 or 500,000 men but a total complete unconditional withdrawal the defeat of US imperialism is evident but they still have not given up their attempts to cling to the southern half of our country we are determined to wage the resistance war until the complete withdrawal of US troops and until the total collapse of the puppet army and administration in order to liberate the south defend the north and proceed toward the peaceful reunification of our country Wow [Music] throughout Nam poems are often recited at meeting ceremonies and gatherings this is a poem by Ho Chi Minh about the day-to-day work in the rice Delta's of North Vietnam [Music] let me be or don't come down here [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] village cooperatives in north vietnam meet regularly to plan their production review their work and discuss the political problems of the country in this meeting the village is considering how to carry out Ho Chi Minh's appeal delivered ten days earlier by Pham van dong in Hanoi the villagers are suggesting different ways to increase production No [Applause] [Music] geese and duck flocks can be increased the production of fertilizer expanded gaku got noise and you know there oh no I'm not having you up I'm telling you no girl move haha village members question each other how many days can you spare our work team sewing the North fields can building of the new school and clinic continue the increases for the South for countrymen fighting the Americans even though the bombing has stopped our country is still at war until the Americans are driven out of the South you know after the war and after reunification we will concentrate on our major battle to constantly improve the life in our village and in the entire country [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] ho Chi Minh said in his will to the Vietnamese people my ultimate wish is that our whole party in people united in struggle build a peaceful unified independent democratic and prosperous Vietnam and make a worthy contribution to the world revolution