The Battle of Dien Bien Phu w/ Comrade Luna

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we talk to a very special guest, one whom many of you are probably familiar with-Comrade Luna of the YouTube channel LunaOi! We discuss the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and its impacts both within Vietnam as well as in liberation struggles globally. Definitely something we've all been wanting to discuss!

Comrade Luna is a Vietnamese communist living in Hanoi. She runs the YouTube channel LunaOi (https://t.co/ibUYXNtQlg?amp=1), which covers Vietnamese foods, culture, and travel, as well as communist theory and political discussion. Well worth checking out! You can also follow Luna on twitter @LunaOi_VN, and support her on patreon by going to https://www.patreon.com/lunaoi.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at [email protected].

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod. Follow and support these shows on patreon, and find them at https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You don't remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.2	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts is a reconnaissance report of
0:33.2	global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.9	I'm your host, Henry Huckamacki, joined, as always by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussain,
0:44.5	historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
0:49.0	Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today?
0:50.9	I'm well. Great to be with you, Henry.
0:53.2	It's always nice to see you. And I'm also
0:55.7	joined, as always by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace
1:00.9	podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing today? Hey, what's up? Doing okay. Yeah, I'm doing well.
1:06.6	We've got a very interesting recording time for everybody today because we are joined,
1:12.6	we're going to be joined by Comrade Luna from Vietnam.
1:16.6	So due to the time zones that we're recording across, Vietnam, Russia, United States and Canada,
1:23.6	we had to get very creative with our time that we are recording at in order to make
1:29.1	it work for everybody. So we've got very, very early morning here. You've got late night
1:34.6	there, kind of mid-morning for Luna. So it'll be an interesting recording. But we're going to
1:40.5	be talking about something that I've been wanting to do an episode on.
1:45.2	I know that we've all wanted to do an episode on this for some time.
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