I Was Totally Misinformed

Now that I know you have lived 38 years in Poland under Soviet domination, I am even more interested in talking to you. I am trying to compile an anthology of a difficult time in our country's history. I think the best (maybe the only) way to heal from this difficult time is to persuade as many people as I can find to express the ways we felt about the controversy over Vietnam at the time. In America, we think it's important to have a free exchange of ideas to help us learn the truth. I would like to know more about your perceptions from the war.

What did you think America was doing at the time?

I was totally misinformed at that time, only about the US bombings, napalm and defoliants, anti-war protests, not about the Northern Vietnam aggression. N. Vietnamese studied at my university and they were quite nice people. Very polite, poor, so Poles liked them. They were much more human than the N. Koreans . I knew very few about the N. Vietnam involvement. I rather sympathised with Viet-Cong. I think so, but I'm not sure, so many years... I have no diary to check my impressions.

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