Ussr Military Aid Vietnam

Soviet soldiers who were sent to Vietnam in the 1960s to help set up anti-aircraft systems took part in combat operations, often shooting down U.S. aircraft, the Soviet army daily Red Star reported. The newspaper printed reminiscences, mainly from personal diaries, of soldiers who served during the Vietnam War, the first acknowledgment that troops, rather than advisers, fought alongside the North Vietnamese. The soldiers recounted how anti-aircraft units coped with heavy U.S. air attacks beginning in 1965, downing American planes with missiles.

Vladimir Lenin never visited Asia, but in his diaries and other writings he expressed doubt that communism had much chance of taking root in the region. India, he thought, might be the only place ripe for revolution. As it developed, the closest Soviet ally in the area turned out to be Vietnam, but the closeness of the relationship turned as much on an accident as strategic policy.

Vladimir Lenin never visited Asia, but in his diaries and other writings he expressed doubt that communism had much chance of taking root in the region. India, he thought, might be the only place ripe for revolution. As it developed, the closest Soviet ally in the area turned out to be Vietnam, but the closeness of the relationship turned as much on an accident as strategic policy.

Soviet soldiers who were sent to Vietnam in the 1960s to help set up anti-aircraft systems took part in combat operations, often shooting down U.S. aircraft, the Soviet army daily Red Star reported. The newspaper printed reminiscences, mainly from personal diaries, of soldiers who served during the Vietnam War, the first acknowledgment that troops, rather than advisers, fought alongside the North Vietnamese. The soldiers recounted how anti-aircraft units coped with heavy U.S. air attacks beginning in 1965, downing American planes with missiles.