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Joseph Cao: “What transpired in Vietnam after the Communist takeover could only be described by analogously linking the tragedy of…”

On the recordJune 3, 2013
What transpired in Vietnam after the Communist takeover could only be described by analogously linking the tragedy of Vietnam to such unconscionable events in human history as the Holocaust, the Killing Fields and the Great Purge.
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Joseph Cao
Louisiana

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Cao compares the aftermath of the Vietnam War to other historical atrocities.

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