... to East Germany. In most cases, the state and the citizens of the GDR financed the stay and study of the foreigners through so-called solidarity funds with the goal of putting down a marker against the imperialistic Western States. Unlike the 'brain drain' common in the the USA and ... the be trained in highly qualified jobs for their home countries, which they strongly felt related to due to their Asian mentality. Another example of solidarity support between the GDR and SRV was the ''Vietnam-Aktion'' of the 1960s. Bilateral proceedings led to the ''Vereinbarung zwischen der Regierung d...

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... cause, since all they could conceive of in life was their social ties. Therefore, the more the Americans escalated the conflict to intimidate them, the more the Vietnamese could muster solidarity, lose "less and less to lose by fighting on", and gain a "capacity for endurance in suffering [as] an instrument for exploiting a basic weakness of the Christian West," (Hoopes 2). The lesson ... ...

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