I'm not really sure that North Vietnam had opportunity of being corrupt since they didn't have much of an economy to speak of at the moment. However, I remembe

I'm not really sure that North Vietnam had opportunity of being corrupt since they didn't have much of an economy to speak of at the moment. However, I remember some bad facts about South Vietnam either, such as US placing puppet top government officials there who were firebrand catholic, in a buddhist country, and who tried to hinder buddhism to the extent where the country was on the brink of civil war, and which also contributed to North having so many willing agents in the South. > In 1963, the Ngô family's grip on power became unstuck during the Buddhist crisis, during which the nation's Buddhist majority rose up against the pro-Catholic regime. Nhu tried to break the Buddhists' opposition by using the Special Forces in raids on prominent Buddhist temples that left hundreds dead, and framing the regular army for it.