# Is the current accepted view that all the deaths in the Vietnam war were in vain?

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> [@ASL\_v2.0](#):
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> Did the South lose the Civil War?

Have you _been_ in the South recently? 🤪

> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#):
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> CW: Bigger picture says communism would have collapsed on its own.

Yes, but only after it ruined the state, the economy and the lives of countless millions.

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