You have a really weird way of phrasing things. &quot;Things really sucked after the war. They don&#x27;t suck like that now, decades later. The average Vietnamese doesn&#x27;t like how things are now&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s hardly surprising that the communist government went crazy-anti-capitalism after having half the country turned to mush by the Americans, but things are getting better. After the war, the communists didn&#x27;t even allow privately-owned shops, and the economy was awful. They started reversing that and the economy started recovering.<p>But just because somewhere else is doing better doesn&#x27;t mean that a place hasn&#x27;t improved significantly in recent years. That&#x27;s a boom.