San Francisco Adult Entertainment: After the fall: Vietnamese remember ‘Black April’ 35 years later

All she knew about the Viet Cong was based on myths the government had spread. “We thought the Communists were just like animals, or vampires with long teeth,” said Thu, now 52. “But when they drove past on their tanks the day the city fell, they just looked so young, like boys.”
When the old currency collapsed, a system of barter sprang up in Saigon at “the biggest flea markets in the world.” To escape on a trawler required payment in the kind of gold bars Pham’s mother had sewed into her clothes. After fleeing to what was now called Ho Chi Minh City, she lived among the prostitutes of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam until she saved enough gold to escape in 1979. She said half the people who tried to escape after the war didn’t survive.

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