I heard it as Ho Chi Minh saying that accepting military aid from the ChiCom regime of Mao Tse-tung meant 1,000 more years of Chinese ookum-dookum.
Vietnamese memory still recalls it has been 1,000 years since their general Tranh Hung Dao led a revolt which threw off Chinese rule after 1,000 years of Han domination.
Ho’s communist regime accepted aid mainly from the Soviet Union during the Vietnam War. And he no doubt predicted Chinese encroachment in the South China Sea decades later; the Paracels and Spratly islands were believed to contain oil. No one anticipated in 1973 that many of these would be transformed into ChiCom bases of operations.
Recall that the ChiComs invaded Vietnam in 1979 to `establish peace’ between Hanoi & the Khmer Rouge, which was overthrown. But the NVA then counterattacked and drove the ChiComs out of Indochina.
At the time this regional war was known as “dirty commies fighting rotten commies fighting filthy commies”.
As strange as it may have been to say, thank God for the NVA in 1979, or else millions more Cambodians would have perished.