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In 1979, three communist nations went to war with each other in a conflict that shattered the myth of socialist unity. Vietnam invaded Cambodia to stop a genocide. China invaded Vietnam in retaliation. Over 100,000 soldiers died in battles that revealed ideology meant nothing when national survival was at stake.

This is the story of how Vietnam toppled Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime—then immediately faced a massive Chinese invasion across its northern border. While Vietnamese troops occupied Cambodia, 600,000 Chinese soldiers poured into northern Vietnam in what Beijing called a "lesson" to teach Hanoi. What followed was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the late Cold War—and one of the most forgotten.

🎯 KEY MOMENTS:
00:00 - February 17, 1979: China Invades Vietnam
03:45 - Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia (Khmer Rouge Atrocities)
09:20 - The Sino-Soviet Split and Fractured Communism
14:30 - December 1978: Vietnamese Lightning Strike on Phnom Penh
19:15 - The Battle of Lang Son: China's Bloody Advance
26:40 - Soviet Response: Threatening China's Northern Border
32:10 - Eight Years of Continuous Border Warfare
38:25 - Why China "Won" Despite Losing Every Battle
43:50 - The Human Cost: Veterans Reflect on Fighting Communist Brothers
48:30 - Legacy: How These Wars Accelerated the Cold War's End

This war proved that communist ideology was dead—what remained were nation-states pursuing traditional interests through traditional means: invasion, occupation, and bloodshed.

🎖️ WHY THIS MATTERS:
The 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War is rarely discussed in Western histories of the Cold War, yet it revealed fundamental truths about international relations: ideology is a thin veneer over national interest. Communist states fought each other as brutally as they fought capitalist enemies. Vietnam stopped a genocide and was punished for it. China lost militarily but won strategically. And the Soviet Union's support for Vietnam contributed to the economic crisis that would collapse the USSR a decade later.

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