An Everlasting Odyssey: Decolonizing Refugee Data from Rome to Vietnam Final Project

From 1955 to 1975, the world, with perverse fascination, ogled the first televised war and watched what they interpreted as yet another conflict during the Cold War. It was a fight between the "vile and parasitic" communism, working its way throughout Eastern Europe and Asia like a "virus", and the "beautifully angelic hands" of democracy, fighting on the front line to "save and heal" the "backwater" nations from themselves.