Come on...Stalin wasnt all bad.

These heroic communist style statues were all over Hanoi. It's strange seeing communist symbols like the hammer and sickle above shop doorways and flying on flags when you are a child of the Eighties and grew up in the certain knowledge that commies were sneaky slant eyed bastards or hulking great muscle-bound thugs in dire need of a thorough cleansing in the fire from automatic weaponry, preferably automatic weaponry in the capable hands of Mr Sylvester Stallone (havent been able to find a cinema showing Rocky Balboa yet...oh the humanity).
The guy with the three-pronged sink-plunger pops up a lot. At first I thought he was a really dynamic plumber who heroically unblocked drains during the war of American aggression but then I found out that the thing he's holding is a three-pronged bomb used by suicide squads to destroy French tanks at the start of the National Resistance War in December 1946. Live and learn.