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On French colonialism

    Black and white photo. Viet Minh soldiers clamber over shell craters in their attack on a French position at Dien Bien Phu.

    Writing in 1954, Paul Robeson presciently foresaw the disaster in the making of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, warning against U.S. logistical support of the doomed French effort to hold its colony in what was then called Indochina. This photo shows Viet Minh solders under Ho Chi Minh at Dien Bien Phu, the battle that marked the end of French colonialism in Vietnam.

    1954
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Attribution/Credit

    TTXVN, via “Battle of Dien Bien Phu,” Wikipedia