Abstract
With the exception of Cambodia, there is hardly any other country in the world that can claim to have suffered as much as Vietnam in the post-World War II period. The country was marked by continual conflict, leaving it with generations traumatised by war, terror and bombings. There was only a brief period of peace in the country following the Geneva settlement of 1954. The long war in which the US was involved, divided the public opinion all over the globe, along with the spectacle of the third world people resisting and defeating the best militarily equipped nation in the world. The Wars ravaged a country which after having occupied the front pages of newspapers for years sank into poverty and indifference. Twenty-seven years after the end of the American War, the Vietnamese would rather move forward than stay stuck in the past.
