Thread:The2016/@comment-26657719-20161023051232/@comment-28718838-20161023115221

The former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, was officially renamed Ho Chi Minh City on 2 July 1976 by the new VCP-controlled National Assembly of Vietnam. However, the name provokes strong anti-communist feeling in a substantial number of Vietnamese. Many Vietnamese, especially those living abroad, continue to refer to the city as Sài Gòn, in rejection of the new communist-imposed name and in honor of the former capital of anti-communist Republic of Vietnam. '''Also, are you the one who's Grandfather fought in the Vietnam War, and tells me stories about how the North Vietnamese decapitated his fellow soldiers, and raped the Australian & American Nurses??? No, you weren't. SO NOW YOU KNOW.