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Maybe because those "extremists" saw what the communists were doing to their own people before this "free election"
by gedy 8y ago
Maybe because those "extremists" saw what the communists were doing to their own people before this "free election"
- mirimir 8y agoNo, they were pretty clearly fascists, from what I've read. A key issue here is how difficult it is to apply evidence from what actually happened to what might have happened. I mean, sure, the North Vietnamese did lots of horrible stuff, both during the war, and after they won. But the issue is that "the North Vietnamese" wasn't some static thing. There was selection, based on what went down. And for sure, some horrible stuff went down. Who's to say what would have happened if Ho Chi Minh had become president of Vietnam in 1956.