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The Soviet Union supplied North Vietnam with medical supplies, arms, tanks, planes, helicopters, artillery, anti-aircraft missiles and other military equipment. Soviet crews fired Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles at U.S. F-4 Phantoms, which were shot down over Thanh Hóa in 1965. Over a dozen Soviet soldiers lost their lives in this conflict.
North Wall, Canadian Vietnam Veterans Memorial Archived April 4, 2022, at the Wayback Machine; Vietnam Veterans With a Mission Archived December 18, 2020, at the Wayback Machine. Information and pictures. Vietnam War Bibliography: Canada. Compiled by scholar Edwin L. Morse. The Vietnam War: Canada's Role, Part One. Transcript of a CBC Radio ...
Many Americans who took refuge in Canada assimilated in the country and continued to reside there decades after the war's end in 1975. [2] Unlike the Swedish authorities who also granted asylum to American war resisters, the Canadian authorities acted discreetly and did not publicly take a position on the United States' role in the war.
The Soviet Union, although it did not take direct military action, provided intelligence and equipment support for Vietnam during the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War. [6] The Soviets deployed troops at the Sino-Soviet border as an act of showing support to Vietnam, as well as tying up Chinese troops. [ 7 ]
However, the more common usage distinguishes between those who served "in-country" and those who did not serve in Vietnam by referring to the "in-country" veterans as "Vietnam veterans" and the others as "Vietnam-era veterans." Regardless, the U.S. government officially refers to all as "Vietnam-era veterans." [2]
Russian GRU defector Stanislav Lunev said in his autobiography that "the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad," and that during the Vietnam War the USSR gave $1 billion to American anti-war movements, more than it gave to the VietCong, [27] although he does not identify any ...
A 1988 Soviet stamp commemorating the Soviet–Canadian polar expedition. As part of the British Empire, Canada did not establish a foreign ministry (External Affairs) until 1909 and developed an independent foreign policy only after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the creation of the USSR.
Igor Gouzenko was a clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa who defected to Canada with evidence of Soviet spying in the West. This was combined with the general East-West tension leading up to the early Cold War, led Canada back to an anti-Soviet stance. By 1947 Canadian foreign policy analysts were advocating the creation of a Western Alliance ...