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[ID: Tweet thread by @LunaOi_VN, broken up into three images. Tweet 1:

Sometimes I forgot that I was born when Vietnam was still being comprehensively embargoed by the US.

The economic sanction was lifted when I was 15 and my life change drastically since then.

Lemme tell ya, sanction sucks.

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In the sanction time:
- No fresh milk except this condensed milk. It was like super fancy at that time.
- No soft drinks like Coke, pepsi…
- Virtually no candies or cookies except when I was sick or it was Tet holiday, my mom would buy me some Hai Chau cookies.

[images of condensed milk and the aforementioned cookies]

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- No clean water. We had to drink yellow water from our well.
- No stable electricity so of course there was no fridge, no oven, no electric rice cooker…
- No gas/electric stove. I had to cook with straw/wood stove my whole childhood.

[Image of a pot of something being cooked in a fireplace] [image of two people getting water from a well]

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- No new clothes. I had to wear old clothes from my older brother.
- When I was 10, I was chosen to study in art class but I could not join because my mom could not afford new art supplies for me.
- Meat was somethign very fancy at that time. I could only eat beef twice a month.

[image of a set of colored pencils]

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- Virtually no medicine except for some basic anti-biotics and vitamins.
- Mostly all the vaccines we had were from Cuba. Thanks, Cuba! And yes, Cubans vaccines are running through my veins to this day.

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After the sanction was lifted:
- I finally could have some fresh milk.
- Instant noodles became affordable.
- Finally new clothes! Hell yeah!
- More medicine, more vaccines.

[images of consumer food products, IDK]

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My final thought:

Fuck the US and its sanction!!!

And fuck YOU if you think sanction doesn’t affect a whole country’s economy and the life of millions of people just because the US says so.

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Vietnam was under US sanction for just 25 years, meanwhile Cuba has been under US sanction for 60 fucking years!!!
That is I am so pissed at any fucking bootlickers and CIA-sympathizers who blaimed Cuba for what they has been going through.
#HandsOffCuba

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