A Vietnam in the Field of Culture: The Cultural Congress of Havana, 1968

In 1968, delegates from seventy countries gathered in Havana to confront cultural imperialism and imagine culture as a decisive front of anti-imperialist struggle.

In 1968, delegates from seventy countries gathered in Havana to confront cultural imperialism and imagine culture as a decisive front of anti-imperialist struggle.

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