Tour of the B-52 Victory Museum Hanoi

A good article on the museum of the air war over Hanoi, complete with great photos of that classic of Communist museography; the blinky lights diorama:

https://saigoneer.com/in-plain-sight/25406-b52-victory-museum-how-a-wartime-plane-carcass-becomes-a-museum-and-community-hangout

P.S. There is a photo of Phạm Tuân in the cockpit of his MiG-21; in 1980 he became the first Asian to go into space as a cosmonaut on the Soyuz 37 mission.

That's pretty neat, especially the table display. They do seem to love their propagandizing, even 50 years later. I wonder if the person who developed the museum and light-up display was personally affected to lived through the bombing?
It's odd to think that if Nixon had kept Linebacker II going for just 1 more week the ending of the war would probably have been very much different.

Undoubtedly - the whole of Hanoi was affected. When I was last there, I lived in a 1960s-era downtown apartment that had a bomb shelter; it was a crawl space in-between the shower and the toilet. Heaven help you if a bomb or wreckage landed on that one-storey building.

I believe you mean it came with a tomb! Might stop shrapnel but anything else and that for sure was your final resting place.

That was a crazy apartment - the shower room door came off its hinges on day 1, so I had to go through the toilet and crouch down to get through the bomb shelter crawl space whenever I wanted to have a shower. I got trapped in my apartment on the first day because they were laying cement in the alleyway. I had 3 gangsters living across the alleyway from me, a peeping Tom, an upstairs neighbour who was flooding my courtyard with his sprinkler system, and the old Commie alley committee chairwoman who kept giving me the stink eye when I said hello to her in Vietnamese. I couldn't decide whether she was a sniper in the war or whether she was an AA gunner; she sure hated me. And there was a big sign at the alley entrance saying that the district committee was resolute in its struggle against firearms, knives and explosives. When I told my friends back in Saigon, they didn't believe me until I showed them the photos.