History. If there’s anything wrong with Hanoi (aside from traffic in the lead up to the Lunar New Year), it would be the history. Far too much of it. Positively dripping with it. And lots of it modern too... French oppression. Japanese oppression. Threat of American oppression... Possibly other oppression. All in the last 200 years. The corollary of oppression of course is opposition and revolution. Fighting. Which leads to lots of history and propaganda - whic...