On International Women’s Day, we honor Vietnamese revolutionary Võ Thị Thắng. Here, she smiles after receiving a 20-year labor camp sentence from the US-backed South Vietnamese government. She told the judge: “20 years? Your government won’t last that long.”
Võ Thị Thắng was released from prison less than 6 years after this picture was taken as part of the Paris Peace accords. The South Vietnamese government fell a couple of years later.


















