What remains of the post-Vietnam war 35 years after the end of a conflict that has marked the second half of the 900? Here is the guide of the trip through one of the most controversial countries in Asia. A country that runs along the Indochinese peninsula, from the mouth of the Red River in the north to the Mekong Delta in the immense 'extreme south.
hearing the word "Vietnam" the mind rushes to war in the second half of the last century has seen the American superpower suffer his first defeat of the great and true post-World War II. As we recall, however, the Vietnamese themselves, embossing on colored t-shirts that sell for a few dollars, Vietnam is a country not a war! is a country with its 83 million inhabitants, on a "human" and not only does not save anything to the traveler who enters. From north to south, I had the impression of a country busy, always busy in life, from fields to factories, which were immersed in the green rice fields or between the gray concrete of an industrial district, the Vietnamese appeared to me unassailable in their daily struggle for survival. Traveling with them on buses, on boats and trains, trampling the scene of fierce bombing, visiting the heart of the earth within famous Vietcong tunnels, I have not broken even for a moment to understand how the U.S. superpower armed to the teeth have been able to lose against a small country armed with rifles, second hand and a handful of rice into the pockets of his soldiers. The truths that strike you are two, parallel and absolutely inseparable: the first is that the pride of this people to defend their land to join what colonial invaders had already divided at the time of the French, was stronger than any weapon man could use, and the other is that even if the bombings had gone on until he had remained a single plant of rice, the Vietnamese were replanted tireless that blade of grass as soon as the sound of bombs calmed. I have found in this country, the kindness and hospitality received in previous trips through other countries of Indochina, but rather a widespread malpractice to show a sort of ostentatious sense of superiority and contempt for foreigners in general. While being able to understand that this belief has been imprinted in the DNA of these people through years of struggle for survival, I was partially disappointed with the world that I have encountered. Of course for those who enters for the first time in an Asian country, Vietnam is a concentration of everything that can be found in this magnificent continent markets noisy and smelling of spicy food of Hanoi motorcycles whizzing by thousands the streets of Saigon , passing through rice paddies and villages of the province, and then cyclo, vendors, massage parlors ambiguous, the smell incense that rises from the temples and pagodas, all this is but a small part of a company with a thousand shades. An experience that throws people used to live in the western world in a different reality , governed by rules and a moral away from us and in some cases incomprehensible. What it means traveling to Vietnam in 2010 and, more importantly, what remains and what has become a communist society that the Vietnamese have built in these 35 years? What catches the eye of the observer is more careful as communism has failed: the company is governed in part by market rules and the other by "knowledge, friendships, favors, Therefore, there is nothing different from a normal modern capitalist society. The question that arises then is: What are to serve the war, the deaths and suffering? Probably nothing, probably we can think that the losers would have created the same company better and more quickly because it was like they wanted! Especially in the south in the streets of Saigon I had the distinct impression that some were still standing in that system of control of party cadres Vietcong established just after the war (an old legacy of Chinese communism): characters seemingly innocuous, the sellers street corners, or the seller's neighborhood, più che vendere si occupano di scrutare la vita quotidiana e riportarla al comitato di zona; ma forse era solo l’ombra di un sistema che in breve trasformò gli oppressi in oppressori…un fantasma che stenta ad andarsene dalle strade della città.
Oltre a questo, del Vietnam post bellico non resta quasi nulla, nemmeno i luoghi teatro di scontri sanguinari e massacri sono più così impressionanti se non nella loro feroce storia; l’erba, la jungla e le piantagioni di caffè sono ricresciute sulle barbarie dell’ agente orange e sulle fiamme infernali del napalm , delle vecchie basi americane resta solo qualche elicottero e qualche carro armato arrugginito e, se non was for driving and for some grave scattered in the rice fields, there would not even get the impression of the notorious band around the 17th parallel , what was ironically named DMZ (demilitarized zone) and that instead quickly became the most militarized area in the world. Today the business has gained the upper hand, tourism is one of the most flourishing industries and drivers Cyclo inherited from the colonial era, still roam in search of customers. The market, the exchange of goods, labor is cheap and low rights are returned to dominate the economy, nature is raped to the point that sailing on the Mekong is not uncommon for the boatman to stop to remove the plastic bags that choke the propeller. What are the chairs of the luxurious' Hotel Caravelle or in a bar tucked away in a dark alley, even the prostitutes girls who entertained American troops in the bar-girls seem to be back in the shadows of the night in Saigon, to entertain tourists lonely. No better place 's Asia is useful to see that life always wins over all, and that the eternal cycle of life and death, through the suffering will never end.
The Show Must Go On
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