You want me to believe they first of all built these complicated deep tunnels with ventilation and drainage and shit in a fucking forest and it didn't collapse? And then that they somehow fucking furnished it with aid stations and kitchens and shit? How the fuck would they drag furniture into these little dirt holes? It's a fucking scam

>>18491413
Are you retarded?

>>18491413
It was 6 million!

>>18491413
Roots stabilize soil

>>18491402
I’ll get into it for you. First? Tunnel collapses were incredibly common. Just when you have no choice because someone wants to use a B-52 to make you, your family, and your village not exist anymore? Risking death underground is better than being guaranteed it above. Then rainforest soil tends towards heavy clay. That means it can be fairly stable if you handle it correctly especially since a lot of it is un disturbed. Remember that in this state it’s actually bedrock that has weathered into clay and is very compact. Then most tunnels were very narrow and rooms had support beams. Finally as ikea proves it f you take stuff in in pieces you can assemble it inside. Then you also did have tunnels in bedrock.

>>18491478
The only tunnels we have pictures of are a few yards long at most. The way they are portrayed in media make it look like Tom Raider

>>18491413
they built them over decades starting in ww2, often expanding and connecting small bomb shelters built by individual villagers. The soil in most of southern vietnam is iron rich clay, which if you dig out and dry will hold its shape without needing to be reinforced with timber or be concrete lined, but cave-ins did happen.

There may have been some gloss put on the tunnel systems by the propaganda of both sides, making them out to be underground cities, but the tunnels absolutely did exist and were widely used to facilitate guerrilla tactics by keeping weapons hidden but close to action zones, and allowing fighters to appear in areas that had already been cleared, ambush patrols, then escape. The tunnels are very well attested to, there were even US units with special training and equipment for fighting in and destroying them.