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428 - Is All Propaganda Harmful? Viet History Makers - Nguyễn Khắc Viện
In this episode of Viet History Makers, co-hosts Kevin Pham and Kenneth Nguyen look into the life of Nguyễn Khắc Viện — a revolutionary intellectual, physician and cultural critic who helped shape modern Vietnamese identity.
Born in 1913 in Ha Tinh, Nguyễn Khắc Viện studied medicine in France, where he became deeply involved in anti-colonial activism and the international communist movement. He spent years in exile, publishing prolifically in both French and Vietnamese, and became a key figure in explaining and defending the Vietnamese revolution to the outside world. His essays and…
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