original title The museum was "House for displaying the war crimes of US imperialism and the puppet government of South Vietnam." Then it changed to "Museum of American War Crimes". In 1993, for the sake of political trends (the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United States), the museum was renamed into the modern "Museum of War Crimes".
Entrance to the museum costs 20,000 dong (about 35 rubles, at that time 1 dollar). There are many visitors.
At the entrance you will be greeted by an exhibition of captured vehicles.
Boeing CH-47 Chinook.
M48 Patton III.
M41 Walker Buldog.
Caterpillar D7E in military version.
BTR M113A1.
Some kind of weapon.
155 mm howitzer M114.
175 mm self-propelled howitzer M107.
Miscellaneous little things.
Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter/Tiger.
Cessna A-37 Dragonfly. Light attack aircraft.
Bell UH-1 Iroquois, aka Huey.
You could look inside. Look, twist the machine gun. This is where the M134 Minigun stands.
Douglas A-1 Skyraider.
Even this fought. 
Cessna 170 / 172 "Skyhawk"
Air bombs.
Something incredibly big.
This is all on the street, right in front of the entrance to the museum itself. The territory is small, so everything is pretty tight and everywhere between them scurrying tourists. It's almost impossible to take a clean photo. What is.
Well, then the worst begins - the museum itself. No wonder it's called the War Crimes Museum. Numerous documentary evidence of the atrocities of the American and South Vietnamese military are presented. Most in photographs. Many things are not that without tears, it’s generally scary to look at.
I’ll warn you right away, I often just forgot to take pictures. It didn't fit in my head so much that "bearers of democracy", and indeed people in general, could do such things.
The ground floor mainly displays posters and newspaper features from different countries peace during the Vietnam War. but there are also modern ones.
For example: 
It is clear that the Brahmos hypersonic missile then corny did not exist.
Grandpa Ho at various international events.
American propaganda started the conflict. Apparently, training by American instructors of the South Vietnamese army.
Well, the international reaction to the war. I captured only a picture from Moscow. There were pictures and newspaper clippings from almost all over the world.
American soldier uniform. Judging by the signature, it was sent by an American veteran as a gift to the museum. Strong move.
On the remaining floors, the facts of crimes and some types and parts of the weapons with which these crimes were committed are already presented.
Piece B-52.
Mines, projectiles.
A piece of a laser-guided MK-84 bomb.
Various types of anti-personnel mines.
Jumping mines, warhead cluster bombs.
Weapon.
The famous photograph can be seen in the background. 
The chief of the Saigon National Police shoots a Viet Cong suspect in the head with a pistol.
I mostly shot weapons, because. photos from the museum have long been on the Internet. And I didn't want to take it off, to be honest.
Americans actively used chemical weapon in this war. As defoliants (toxic compounds for destroying vegetation in the jungle), and OV and nerve gases.
Well, we wanted to live. 
Containers of chemical grenades.
Department icons.
Mortars.
Chevrons of divisions.
Much of the museum is photographs and newspaper clippings. There are interviews with participants in the war on both sides, there are memories of cameramen and correspondents. The memory of the author of this photo was strongly hooked. 
2) The original name of this museum is "House for displaying the war crimes of US imperialism and the puppet government of South Vietnam." This name changed several times, but the essence of these names remained the same. last name talks about the liberal processes in Vietnam and the establishment of relations with America. The entire exposition is located in several buildings and is divided into eight themes. Captured by the Vietnamese american technology and unexploded ordnance are on display in the courtyard of the museum. In the room itself there are many photographs showing the effects of toxic substances on the inhabitants of Vietnam, as well as "tiger cages" for holding political prisoners. The "tiger cage" is a special cell for prisoners who were considered recalcitrant by the Saigon authorities. Size - 2.7 x 1.5 x 3 meters. In hot weather, from 5 to 14 people were stuffed into the cell, in cold weather they left one or two chained to a metal pin. They were not allowed out of the cell for any reason. Narrow passages were left for the jailers. There were any reasons for beating - talking, coughing, even a slap on the body in order to kill a mosquito. The food was a handful of rice with a couple of pieces of dried rotten fish. The water ration was half a tin can per day - this is for drinking and for personal hygiene, which brought special torment to female prisoners.
3) Previously, this building was the Museum of the Army, which was opened in December 1959 in honor of the 15th anniversary of the formation people's army countries. 
4) Among the captured American military equipment there is a Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy military transport helicopter, which has been produced since 1962. 
5) Tank "Patton" 48 1952-1959 production. 
6) And this is the familiar Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter, which transported me and our Russian team from Baghdad to the base where we worked and back. 
7) American-made attack aircraft A-37 (serial number 70-1285). This aircraft served in the South Vietnamese Air Force, then was captured by the North Vietnamese and continued to serve in the Vietnamese Air Force. Despite this, the aircraft is in the museum with American identification marks and the inscription U.S. AIR FORCE (that is, the US Air Force) on board. 
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8) A person was placed in the “Tiger Cage” cage. Its walls are made of barbed wire. A person could not lean on the walls and fall asleep. The cage was exposed to the open sun, and people completely undressed. great torment. 
9) Looked like this mangroves in the Mekong Delta shortly after Agent Orange was deployed here. In total, during the war, more than 14% of the territory of Vietnam was exposed to this poison. According to the US Department of Defense, from 1962 to 1971, the Americans sprayed 77 million liters of Agent Orange defoliant into South Vietnam, including 44 million liters containing dioxin. 
10) "Agent Orange" (eng. Agent Orange) - the name of a mixture of defoliants and herbicides of synthetic origin. It was used as a chemical weapon by the US Army during Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971 as part of the Ranch Hand devegetation program. The name came from the orange color of the barrels used to transport defoliants. 
11) 2 female survivors, Pham Ti Lai and Ti Nang, after the massacre in Song My: 501 dead (according to American data 280 people) from 1 to 82 years old, including 173 children, 182 women (17 pregnant women), 60 men older 60 years.
“When the Americans came to the village, they took us out of the houses, pushed us in the back with rifle butts, so that we would go into the ditch, where more than a hundred people were already standing. They forced us to our knees and immediately began to shoot from behind with machine guns. Of our family of 11, only me and mine survived. youngest child- I closed it myself. Three corpses fell on top of me, and it was only thanks to them that we survived: they hid us from the Americans.”
12) In March 1968, the command of the operational group "Barker" received intelligence information that the headquarters and some units of the Viet Cong are located in the village community of Song My (the Americans called this area "Pinkville"). An operation was planned to destroy the headquarters, which was given great importance, since the 48th Battalion of the South Vietnam Liberation Army has so far successfully avoided direct combat with American units. According to the plan of the command, Company C ("Charlie") of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, under the command of Captain Ernest Medina, was to land from helicopters west of the community, another company to block the community from the north, and a third company, if necessary, to reinforce C Company or land somewhere else. Up to this point, C Company had been engaged only in patrolling and organizing ambushes, during which it managed to suffer losses, mostly unanswered - from traps and mines. On March 14, the company lost staff sergeant George Cox, respected by the soldiers. At the memorial service for the sergeant, Captain Medina gave a speech, common sense which boiled down to the need to take revenge on the enemy. 
13) Before the operation, the soldiers were instructed that locality occupied by an enemy ready to offer fierce resistance, the presence of civilians is not expected. Through unknown channels, information has been received that the civilians of the village are going to the market in the morning, so the village will be empty. For the soldiers of C Company, this was to be the first serious battle and an opportunity to avenge their fallen comrades. Medina also ordered that all buildings be burned, livestock killed and crops destroyed to prevent the use of all this by the enemy.
The operation began on the morning of March 16, 1968. After a 5-minute preparatory artillery barrage, Company C was dropped from helicopters near Milay-4. As it turned out, there was not a single enemy soldier in the village (a small militia unit that was in Milay left the village immediately after the landing began). However, the soldiers opened fire on the villagers who were working in the rice fields. At about 8 o'clock the company began an attack on the village, conducting continuous fire. In the village, the soldiers of the company began to throw grenades at the huts and shoot their inhabitants with automatic weapons. Groups of fugitives hiding in roadside ditches were destroyed with automatic weapons. A group of 50 peasants hiding in a pit at the far end of the village were shot on the orders of the commander of the 1st platoon, Lieutenant William Kelly. Later, about 100 prisoners were destroyed, whom the soldiers captured in the village. The same was done in neighboring village Bintei. 
14) Not all military personnel of the company took part in the killings. Many remained on the sidelines, one soldier shot himself in the leg to be evacuated by an ambulance helicopter. Of the 100 American soldiers who entered the village, 30 were involved in the killings. The observation helicopter pilot of Company B, 123rd Aviation Battalion, Hugh Thompson, who was observing the events from the air, landed his OH-23 between a group of Vietnamese peasants hiding in a makeshift bomb shelter and American soldiers intending to kill them. Thompson ordered the gunner and flight engineer to open fire on the American infantry if they tried to kill the Vietnamese. Then Thompson called for helicopters to evacuate the wounded Vietnamese (11 people were evacuated, another child was picked up in an irrigation ditch where the dead and dying lay). 
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16) On February 25, 1969, between 20:00 and 21:00, a group of SEAL rangers (one of the most selective groups of American special forces), led by Lieutenant Bob Kerry, entered settlement 5 of Thanh Fon village, Thanh Phu county, Ben Che province. They slit the throats of 66-year-old Bui Van Wpat and 62-year-old Lu Thi Canh, dragged their three grandchildren out of their hideout, killing two and disemboweling one. Further, the rangers walked through the dugouts where other families were hiding, shot 15 civilians (including three pregnant women), opened the stomach of one girl. Only 12-year-old Bui Thi Luom survived, having been wounded in the foot.
It wasn't until 2001 that Senator Bob Kerry confessed to the international community that he had committed a crime." 
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18) The work of Associated Press photographer Nick Ut went around the world, revealing the whole ins and outs of the Vietnam War. The photo shows a 9-year-old girl, Kim Fook, with napalm burns.
On June 8, 1972, a group of civilians were heading towards government army positions when a South Vietnamese Air Force pilot mistakenly mistook the people for Viet Cong and dropped napalm bombs on them.
At the hospital, doctors concluded that the burns received by Kim Fook were fatal, but she survived after 17 plastic surgery returned home. In 1992, she received political asylum in Canada. Today he lives with his family in Ontario... 
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26) The following photographs show the effects of exposure to defoliants and herbicides on the human body. 
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28) In Vietnam, polygamy was actively practiced for many centuries until its ban by the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1959, but after this war, illegal polygamy, caused by a gender imbalance resulting from the death a large number men during this war, remained quite common (friend Tuan, a roommate in 2010-2013 while studying at PFUR, said that at one time the Vietnamese government appealed to the people with a request to actively start in families as much as possible more kids to restore the population. According to him, by 1980, 6 million dead had been compensated. 
29) 64% of the dead American soldiers were under 21 years old, among those killed the largest regional group were from California.
By 1975, there were 83,000 amputees in South Vietnam, 30,000 blind, and 10,000 war-deaf. 
30) "Hell disco in the jungle", as American soldiers and officers called the Vietnam War. Despite overwhelming superiority in weapons and forces (the number of US troops in Vietnam in 1968 was 540,000 people), they failed to defeat the guerrillas. Even carpet bombing, during which American aircraft dropped 6.7 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, could not "drive the Vietnamese into stone Age". At the same time, the losses of the US army and their allies were constantly growing. During the years of the war, the Americans lost 58 thousand people in the jungle killed, 2300 missing and over 150 thousand wounded. At the same time, the list official losses did not include Puerto Ricans who were recruited into the US military to obtain United States citizenship. Despite occasional successful military operations, President Richard Nixon realized that final victory could not be achieved. 
31) Desertion during the Vietnam campaign was a fairly widespread phenomenon. Suffice it to recall that the famous American heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay converted to Islam at the peak of his career and took the name Muhammad Ali so as not to serve in the American army. For this act, he was stripped of all titles and suspended from competition for more than three years. After the war, President Gerald Ford in 1974 offered pardons to all draft evaders and deserters. More than 27,000 people came to confession. Later, in 1977, the next head of the White House, Jimmy Carter, pardoned those who fled the United States so as not to be drafted. 
33) Most of the Vietnamese were on the side of the partisans. They provided them with food, intelligence information, recruits and labor. In his writings, David Hackworth quotes Mao Zedong's saying that "the people are to the guerrillas what water is to fish: remove the water and the fish will die." "The factor that soldered and cemented the communists from the very beginning was their strategy for a revolutionary war of liberation. Without this strategy, the victory of the communists would have been impossible. The Vietnam War must be viewed through the prism of strategy people's war that this is not a question of manpower and technology, that such things are not relevant to the problem," wrote another American historian Philip Davidson. 
34) America was rocked by thousands of protesters against the Vietnam War. A new movement, the hippies, emerged from the youth protesting against this war. The movement culminated in the so-called "Pentagon Campaign", when up to 100,000 young people gathered in Washington in October 1967 to protest against the war, as well as protests during the Congress Democratic Party USA in Chicago in August 1968. Suffice it to recall that John Lennon, who opposed the war, wrote the song "Give Peace a Chance". Drug addiction, suicide, desertion spread among the military. Veterans pursued "Vietnamese Syndrome", because of which thousands former soldiers and officers committed suicide (20,000 veterans committed suicide by 1993, according to the medical journal Federal Practitioner). Under such conditions, it was pointless to continue the war. 
35) If comrades from China provided mainly economic assistance and manpower, then the USSR provided Vietnam with its most advanced weapons. So, according to rough estimates, assistance to the USSR is estimated at $ 8-15 billion, and the financial costs of the United States, based on modern estimates, exceeded a trillion US dollars. In addition to weapons Soviet Union sent military specialists to Vietnam. From July 1965 to the end of 1974, about 6,500 officers and generals, as well as more than 4,500 thousand soldiers and sergeants of the Soviet Armed Forces, took part in the hostilities. In addition, more than 10,000 Vietnamese military personnel were trained in military schools and academies of the USSR. 
36) As a result of the use of chemicals, the ecological balance of Vietnam has seriously changed. In the affected areas, out of 150 species of birds, 18 remained, there was an almost complete disappearance of amphibians and insects, the number of fish in the rivers decreased and their composition changed. The microbiological composition of soils was disturbed, plants were poisoned. The number of tree and shrub species of the humid tropical forest has sharply decreased: in the affected areas there are single species of trees and several species of thorny grasses that are not suitable for livestock feed. Mangrove forests (500,000 ha) were almost completely destroyed, 60% (about 1 million ha) of jungle and 30% (more than 100,000 ha) of lowland forests were affected. Since 1960, the yield of rubber plantations has decreased by 75%. Destroyed from 40 to 100% of crops of bananas, rice, sweet potatoes, papaya, tomatoes, 70% of coconut plantations, 60% of hevea, 110 thousand hectares of casuarina plantations
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This is the most popular museum in Ho Chi Minh and the most shocking. The name of this museum literally translates as the War Remnants Museum, also known as the War Remnants Museum, and it was originally called the Exhibition House for US and Puppet Crimes, however, due to with the normalization of relations with the United States, was politically correct renamed to its current name.
But in fact, in terms of content, this is precisely the museum of US war crimes committed during the American-Vietnamese war against the population of Vietnam.
As the name implies, almost all the exhibits are devoted specifically to the theme of the atrocities and crimes of the United States, which they did in relation to both armed soldiers and the civilian population of Vietnam. The main part of the exhibits is located inside the museum building, which during the war served as a home for news agency USA. Basically, these are photographs and documents that will leave only a few indifferent. Many visitors to the museum with grim faces move from photograph to photograph, and some fail to contain their emotions. All of this evidence is shocking.
America over the past 100 years has participated in more than a dozen wars, but not once has this happened on its territory. Nobody attacked her, but she interfered and interferes everywhere and everywhere - Nicaragua, Cuba, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Germany, Japan (perhaps the only case when America was really attacked), Korea, Guatemala, Lebanon, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada , Panama, twice Iraq, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya, and, of course, one of the most famous wars with the participation of Americans - Vietnam.
One of the most famous and probably the most shameful for the United States. A war in which a superpower with vast resources, a super-equipped army and advanced military equipment could not do anything with the North Vietnamese army and powerful guerrilla resistance.
Neither the massive bombardments, nor the scorched earth tactics, nor the brutal reprisals against local residents who supported the partisans, nor the use of the infamous "Agent Orange", who made tens of thousands of people disabled and freaked out during the war and makes them so even in our time, did not help - still there are mass cases of the birth of children with very serious physical and mental disabilities.
Around the museum open sky several samples of military equipment and weapons of the Americans are exhibited, and in a separate pavilion there are models of instruments of torture and a prison.
In 1959, Vietnam celebrated the 15th anniversary of the People's Army. In honor of this, in Saigon, in several old small houses, the Army Museum was opened. After 6 years, in 1965, a full-scale invasion of American troops began. During the aggressive aggression, the Americans placed their information service in the museum.
On September 4, 1975, after Vietnam gained independence, the museum resumed its activities here. But now his mission was radically different from the original: employees began to collect photographs, artifacts and other materials confirming the brutality of the American military. The government of Vietnam was guided by the need to preserve for posterity the evidence of the blind, senseless destruction of nature and people of their country.
This is how the “House for Showing the War Crimes of American Imperialism and the Puppet Government of South Vietnam” appeared - a repository of traces of the war in which the armed Americans decided to colonize exotic country and lost.
In 1990, showing political correctness, the references to countries and governments in the name were changed, and it turned out "Museum of American War Crimes". In 1995, relations between Vietnam and the United States improved, the name of the institution was even more smoothed out and became - "Museum of War Victims", or in other words, "Museum of War Crimes". In 2002, a new building was built on the site of the old houses. The funds were allocated by the state and the authorities of Ho Chi Minh City.
With the development of international tourism, the purpose and ideological orientation institutions. His goal was not to let people forget about how cruel and destructive any war is.
Today, about 2,000 people pass through the halls of the museum every day, 70% of them are foreigners. Russian-speaking tourists also drop in, because in one way or another about 3-4 thousand Soviet specialists took part in the Vietnam War.
According to museum director Huyin Ngoc Van, these buildings store more than 20,000 artifacts, films, photographs, and documents. For the convenience of tourists, the inscriptions on the explanatory plates are made in three languages: Vietnamese, English, Japanese.
Museum exposition
The museum occupies a three-story building with 6 halls and open area where the largest exhibits are exhibited.
Thematically, the exhibition is divided into 8 parts:
1. Documents and photos (1st floor)
2. Losses of the Vietnamese side (2nd floor)
3. Losses of Americans (3rd floor)
4. American military equipment(open area)
5. Exhibition of ammunition (open area)
6. Tiger cages (outdoor area)
7. Guillotine (open area)
8. Temporary exhibitions
9. Below I will tell you in detail about each of them.
Documents and photos
The first floor is a collection of printed materials, photographs and documents. Shops are also located here. The first thing that every visitor sees upon entering is a photo of a girl with amputated arms. She laughs with her head thrown back in the rain. Nearby is a dove that has opened the wings of the world. This is what happiness looks like because the war is over.
Inside the hall is the exhibition "The world supports Vietnam in its resistance." Contains 145 artifacts and 100 documents.
The second exhibition of the hall is called "Requiem". This is the collection of war correspondent Tim Page. It is a selection of materials from professional photographers as well as ordinary soldiers.
Among them is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Associated Press employee Nick Ut. We see 9-year-old Vietnamese Kim Phuc running, her naked body covered in burns. It happened on June 8, 1972. Some local residents walked along the road, not suspecting that they were moving towards combat positions. South Vietnamese pilot peaceful people for enemy soldiers, dropped napalm bombs.
The hospital assessed that the burns received by the girl were fatal. And she survived, underwent 17 plastic surgeries and continued a normal life. Subsequently became Ambassador good will UN. In 1992, Kim Fook left for Canada, having received political asylum. Today he lives with his family in Ontario. Also among the artifacts of the 1st floor you can see the camera of the Japanese photojournalist Taizo Ichinose, pierced by a bullet.
Losses of the Vietnamese side
This exposition is located on the second floor of the museum.
There are two exhibition galleries here:
"Victims of "Agent Orange" in the American aggression in Vietnam";
"Aggressive war crimes".
1 Agent Orange Victims
A hall with orange walls, on which many photographs depicting the effects of Agent Orange are placed.
This is a poisonous synthetic mixture of defoliants and herbicides containing dioxin and its derivatives. The name comes from the fact that the barrels that served as containers had an orange stripe. During the entire war, 77 million liters of the reagent were used.
It has been used under the Ranch Hand program since 1961 for 10 years to burn out the tropical jungle in which the partisans were hiding. Many species of animals, plants, and birds disappeared almost completely after this pollination. Reptiles, fish, and insects suffered greatly. Considerable concentrations of poison still remain in water and soil. This is called an environmental disaster.
In the photo you can see the remains of evergreen mangroves in the Mekong Delta: the consequences of poisoning. Instead of forest - bare dry sticks.
The impact of the reagent on people is expressed in genetic mutations, oncological diseases, the manifestation of terrible deformities, causes a state of "chemical AIDS". The worst thing is that destructive changes appear in subsequent generations. About 4.8 million Vietnamese received disabilities of varying severity. The photographs show disfigured people, including children, with deformed body parts, or even without them at all, with neoplasms on their bodies and heads.
Thorxo Abdermine Pagus (Mutilation of Unborn Children) is a separate exhibition within the gallery dedicated to Agent Orange. Here visitors will see vessels with alcoholized human embryos. Mother, fortunately, died before their birth and did not see the terrible deformity of her children.
2. Aggressive war crimes
This gallery is dedicated to the event that went down in history under the name "Song My Massacre". Evidence of a massacre in My Son Province is presented. Among them are the memories of two miraculously surviving women - Pham Ti Lai and Ti Nang.
The American soldiers were told that the enemy had occupied the village and that a serious battle was coming. However, the fighters did not meet armed resistance. Residents worked in the fields, while the elderly and children sat at home. The Americans, seeking to suppress the country at any cost, dealt with everyone they met along the way. People were dragged out of the huts and brutally destroyed, while pushing and dumping them into heaps.
Consequences - 504 dead. Among them are 89 men, 182 women (including 17 pregnant women), 173 children and 60 old people.
American losses
American soldiers provided exhibits and artifacts to the museum as a token of regret for participating in this war. They are located on the 3rd floor of the building. Among the exhibits are military awards for US Army veterans, photographs of destroyed cities taken by military photographers, as well as some other materials.
American military equipment
Here, outside the main building, you can see samples of armored vehicles, aircraft, engineering vehicles used during the war.
Among others, exhibited:
1. The UH1 helicopter is one of the symbols of war, familiar to the general public from the cult film Apocalypse Now.
2. M41 (Bulldog) - light tank produced since 1951. Hundreds of these vehicles were imported to Vietnam, but almost all of them were destroyed or captured.
3. Attack aircraft A-1 - this aircraft with an outdated piston engine was developed during the Second World War. In Vietnam, it was actively used as a support aircraft.
4. Fighter F-5 - the latest jet for that time.
5. Landing boat
6. Military bulldozer
7. Tank M-48
8. The CH-47 helicopter is one of the most famous transport helicopters in the world, which is still actively used by the US military.
9. Aircraft A-37 with the inscription on the board “U.S. AIR FORCE" (US Air Force). Made in the USA, was part of the South Vietnamese Air Force. Later, captured by the North Vietnamese, he continued to fight on their side.
A little further away - light bicycles, which the Vietnamese made themselves and penetrated behind enemy lines for sabotage.
Exhibition of ammunition
Here, mainly, samples of weapons of the American side are presented.
You can see:
Bomb BLU-82 - "Daisy Mower";
Butterfly mine, which is triggered by pressure;
Containers for missiles;
Experimental projectiles, classified at the time. Later they were banned by the International Convention for use in all countries:
Fleshchet, needle bomb. When it burst, tiny darts flew rapidly out of it. They, getting into the human body and getting stuck in the tissues, were not detected even on x-rays. Render medical care and it was almost impossible to alleviate the suffering. It remained to watch the victim slowly and painfully die.
Ball bomb. The principle of operation is like that of a needle.
tiger cages
"Prickly cages of tigers" - prisons invented by the French. They held political prisoners. In order to get the most clear idea, prisoner mannequins were used in the exhibition.
People stripped naked were stuffed into cages made of barbed wire. In the heat - more, more crowded. In the cold, on the contrary, one or two, chained for reliability. It is impossible to lean on the walls. You won't be able to fall asleep. The scorching sun, the beatings of jailers. You can neither exchange a word, nor cough, nor leave the cell as needed. The diet of the prisoners is a little rice and dried fish. Water was received in a tin can. This should have been enough for a day to drink and use for hygiene. Women were especially tormented in such a conclusion.
For more sophisticated bullying, recumbent cells were invented.
Guillotine
Perhaps the most impressive artifact. Next to it is a wicker basket for heads. The same French brought this executioner's tool to Vietnam at the beginning of the 20th century. However, with its help, the local population and other colonizers were destroyed.
Temporary exhibitions
In addition to daily activities, the museum periodically organizes events with various related topics such as culture, cuisine, and so on. For example, in culinary programs wartime dishes are presented: tapioca, rice sauce, bant tet, banh wug and so on. popular cultural programs with the theme of love in war.
Change one after another temporary thematic exhibitions, in particular, about Vietnamese culture and history. One of the latest is held in conjunction with the Binh Phuoc Provincial Museum, about the suffering of its inhabitants during the war.
Of course, the whole exhibition is much larger: it can easily take 2-3 hours to walk around the three floors of the museum and outdoor areas.
While America pretends to be the main expert in the field of crimes against humanity with the right to punish and pardon, it is important for everyone to know how the United States established its own rules in Vietnam, and what came of it.
How to get to the museum
The War Crimes Museum is located near the center of Ho Chi Minh City:
Address: Ho Chi Minh City, 28 Wo Van Tan Street (on the corner with Le Cui Don Street), Third District. You can get here by taxi or buses of routes 06, 14, 28.
The museum is open daily, including holidays:
From 07:30 to 12:00
From 13:30 to 17:00
It is necessary to plan a visit taking into account the fact that during the lunch break from 12:00 to 13:30 all visitors are removed from the museum. The most convenient time to visit is in the morning, when there is still no heat. Phone: +84 8 829 0325.
Entrance ticket price:
VND 15.000 - for foreigners;
VND 2.000 - for Vietnamese.
There are no special restrictions when visiting the museum. Photo and video shooting are allowed. The only thing the administration asks guests is not to dress too provocatively. Caution must be exercised when visiting the museum by children, pregnant women and persons with reduced emotional stability. In the Museum of War Victims, you can often meet visitors silently standing with a frozen look in front of an exhibit, document or artifact. Sometimes you can't hold back your tears. Although people knew about the Vietnam War before, they hardly imagined such dire and devastating consequences.
Here are the reviews of our tourists:
To be honest, the museum was disappointing. There is very little equipment, and you can look at the photo and read the history of the war on the Internet. The ticket is cheap, but there is nothing to do there for more than 5 minutes.
The museum differs from the usual understanding of this word: it is not a collection of works of art in the classical sense and not a room with interactive zones, as in contemporary museums. But the idea of this place is not entertainment, but collection maximum number reliable information testifying to the horrors of the Vietnam War, the echoes of which are still heard. You can come here with children. Many photographs are black and white and because of this are not so sharply perceived. In addition, a comfortable stay is no more than 1.5 hours - you can slowly see everything and not get tired.
The consequences of the US use of banned substances during the Vietnam War are shown very well and in detail.
Almost the entire museum consists of photographs. Very creepy photos. However, I still recommend visiting it. Impressive! I love museums, but I do not like photo exhibitions, but I did not regret that I went to the museum.
In the museum, 90% are photographs, terrible photographs of the war and its consequences. The rest is captured weapons, the reconstruction of cells for prisoners. A must visit, even for those who do not like museums and exhibitions.
The word Museum should not frighten those who do not like to go to museums. The exposition is quite small - mainly photographs and captured weapons. You will spend no more than an hour on inspection, but your further perception of Vietnam will be from a different angle. Because the war was cruel, and the war was quite recent. The younger generation 20+ knows her from the stories of her own parents; still alive, undefeated bombs are still exploding in the fields and maiming people. Our guide in Saigon, it suddenly turned out, himself participated in hostilities. As a 17-year-old boy, he crawled through the jungle in an infantry detachment, he has a combat wound. Such is living history. Yes, and the Phantom, known from the song of Chizh, stands in the courtyard of the museum, among other military equipment. The photos in the museum are creepy in their reality. If you are impressionable, do not look closely.
For people born after the 70s, a visit to this museum is a must. Some have only heard of this war. In the museum you can see and feel what happened in those years. It will be useful for everyone. I saw old and young Americans. Some young people were shocked. The elderly watched in silence, with stiff faces. Vigorously discussed mainly Spaniards and Italians. Inside and outside there are souvenir shops with the appropriate theme.
By the way In Vladikavkaz, the "Museum of US and NATO Crimes" was also opened.
The unusual exposition was based on eight large stands with photographs depicting the consequences of military conflicts in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Libya and Iraq. A separate place in the exhibition is occupied by photographs dedicated to the attack of Georgian troops on South Ossetia in August 2008.
The museum is located in the building of the Republican National scientific library on an area of about 500 square meters. It was organized by the international public association"Our Ossetia", which includes 30 local cultural centers.
The exposition (more than 400 people visited it on the first day of work) also presents samples of weapons used during these bloody local wars. All of them are foreign-made, mostly American. The attention of visitors is immediately attracted by a mannequin dressed in the equipment of NATO soldiers. On his hands is red paint, which, according to the creators of the museum, symbolizes blood, and in his palms the formidable-looking exhibit is holding copies of dollar bills.
“I saw with my own eyes what happened during the Georgian attack on South Ossetia,” says Vyacheslav Lagkuev, chairman of the Our Ossetia public movement. “It was a terrible tragedy. Innocent civilians died, including children and the elderly. Everything that happened then was orchestrated by the Americans, and Georgia turned out to be just a puppet in their plans. However, time passes, and the situation does not change. What is happening now in Ukraine is very reminiscent of the events of August 2008. And the directors are the same. That is why we decided to organize the US and NATO Crime Museum.
The exhibition, according to the organizers, is planned to be sent on a tour to other regions of Russia after some time.
Note that the museum has a 16+ limit for visitors. This is due to the fact that the presented photographs from the places of military conflicts depict dead people, destroyed houses, old people and children left without a roof over their heads.
“You need to know the truth, no matter how bitter it may be,” said the head of the North Ossetia Taimuraz Mamsurov. “Today, any country in the world addressed by the US and NATO with the words “democracy” and “human rights” must be ready for an armed invasion. Such museums of US and NATO crimes, as we have in our republic, should be created throughout the country. Enough to inspire Russia with a false sense of guilt, to demand some kind of repentance. We need to raise generations of well-informed, freedom-loving, highly educated, spiritually and physically strong young men and women who are able to live in an open global world with an awareness of pride in the fact that they represent Russia.
After viewing all the exhibits, visitors are invited to watch a 26-minute film about the consequences of US and NATO military operations over the past few years. There is a ballot box at the exit from the museum. Those who wish have the opportunity to take a ballot and put a tick in front of one of the two questions: "I choose freedom, peace and truth" and "I support the policy of the United States and NATO."
Museum of War Victims in Ho Chi Minh City. VietnamDecember 6th, 2012
In the history of the development of Vietnam, a significant stage is occupied by Civil War between North and South Vietnam, which subsequently drew in major world powers (USA and USSR, China, North and South Korea) and other countries. However, most people hear the name of the Vietnam War against the Americans.
Almost immediately after the end of the war (April 30, 1975) in September 1975. museum opens in Saigon. IN different years the museum has different names that reflect the attitude of the Vietnamese communists towards the Americans. The first name of the museum is "House for displaying the war crimes of US imperialism and the puppet government of South Vietnam." But, the years gradually pass, and with them the hatred. Today's name of the museum - "Museum of War Victims" - speaks of forgiveness and restoration of relationships. Although no less interesting museum, it would be to know the relation ordinary people who lost their loved ones and their health in this war.
The exhibition of the museum is divided into expositions united by a certain theme.
In front of the museum building is located the military equipment of the armed forces of America
Helicopter UH-1 "Huey"
Tank M48
Attack aircraft A-37
On the side of the main building, there are small buildings imitating prison cells.
Guillotine used to execute communist Vietnamese
The last execution by guillotine took place in 1960. Although looking at the following ways conclusion, the guillotine does not seem so terrible.
"Tiger cages" - several people were kept in one department. People were sitting in the open sun, it was impossible to lie down. Not everyone survived in such an environment.
In the evenings, South Vietnamese police officers came to the houses and checked if the whole family was at home. If someone was not there, and the remaining family members could not give an intelligible answer, then the person was recognized as a political criminal, and prison awaited him.
There are more places here, but traffic is still limited.
In the main building of the museum, it is no less creepy from the paintings of the war exhibited here.
War breaks into peaceful life
Black marks the area affected by the spraying of chemical weapons
The consequences of the use of chemical weapons by the Americans "Agent Orange" assigned separate room. The walls of the room are specially painted orange.
"Agent Orange" (eng. Agent Orange) - the name of a mixture of defoliants and herbicides of synthetic origin. It was used as a chemical weapon by the US Army in the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971 as part of the Ranch Hand devegetation program. The name came from the orange color of the barrels used to transport defoliants.
According to the US Department of Defense, from 1962 to 1971, the Americans sprayed 77 million liters of Agent Orange defoliant, including 44 million liters containing dioxin, on 10% of South Vietnam.The following photos show the effects of defoliants and herbicides on the human body.
Regardless of the softening of the museum's name, the theme of war does not get any easier. And after looking at the exhibits and photographs of the museum, it becomes very creepy.
Other reports from Vietnam.
