South Vietnam’s Flags at the Capitol Riot

What was the flag of an extinct state doing amid the carnage?

Jan 9, 2021

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By: Tuan Hoang

Among the American, Trump, Tea Party, and Confederacy flags that turned up in the January 6 invasion of the Capitol in Washington, DC plus a small number of national flags of Australia, Japan, South Korea, etc, was the flag of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), which had ceased to exist in 1975.

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