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The scenes at Kabul airport are reminiscent of the chaos in Saigon in 1975 when pro-American Vietnamese desperately tried to flee before the arrival of communist.
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In 1975, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese faster than expected, leading to chaos and to the largest helicopter airlift ever attempted to rescue hundreds of Americans and South Vietnamese, who scaled the embassy's walls.
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