From: knguyen@emr1.emr.ca (Kim Nguyen)
Subject: Some remarks about Vietnam communist's role in defeating  Saigon
Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:47:35 GMT



-Vietminh North or South is still communist who was under Ho's command. 
Vietcong in the South is just Vietminh which changes the name. Like we 
often say "old wine, but new bottle". They  are different ? Look at 
what they became after 1975 : who is VC, who is Vietminh and who is communist 
North ?

-After 1954, an amount of Vietminh ordered to stay back in SVN to organize 
assassinations and sabotages in SVN. To deceit abroad, VC or whatever emerged 
as 
an insurgent guerrilla arm of NLF, but in essence, they are all communists 
which 
received orders from Ha-noi. NLF brushed off its body to look like an 
opposition 
party to be against Ngo-dinh-Diem. They did woe some parties, unified them
under one front. Under foreigner's eye, they were a party and an insurgent
force to revolt. They had something called Provisional Revolutionary 
Goverment (PRG) in which they feint like a governmental body, but only a good 
play on theatre BECAUSE THERE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND PARTY !
PARTY = GOVERNMENT in communist world.

This echoed abroad, in late 50's, that they fight for independence and 
unification. The world would symphathize for PRG and condemn Ngo-dinh-Diem as 
dictator or totalitarian. Yes, he might be dictator to parties which are 
composed of free citizens. To PRG, Ngo-dinh-Diem was enemy of that body; why 
let 
that communist party activated freely ? If so, what is the meaning of a free 
SVN ? And 1968 and NVN army and..... 

-Until the day Kissinger and Tho did gather around the table in Jan. 1973, 
people saw PRG and South Vietnam representatives appear as equal 
partners ! Tho and Kissinger were as equal partners. Was that a ridiculous 
play ?
We all were demoralized by then. We were shot many times and dead many times !

The day Kissinger let PRG and Thieu sit on the table and sign the agreement,
we knew we were lost; that was the fate of a loser and a weaker; the morality 
went down; one part of free world was lost. Kissinger didn't know PRG or 
Vietminh 
or Vietcong who are just one ? I doubt about that.

We, South Vietnamese, puzzeld that why until that day foreigners still saw PRG 
as 
independent insurgents but didn't look at them as communists (whatever South 
or 
North which did prepare politically and militarily to swallow the rest). 

-Then, NVN invaded SVN, and some people still thought that it is not 
invasion ! 

-Is there any difference among VC, Vietminh or North Vietamese communist? 
Now, let see the rest of the play.

Came 1975. The whole NVN army did take Saigon.

PRG must continue to play as a party whose goal is independence and 
unifiction. 
They pretended to formally set up something called National United Front by 
joining with other political groups (whether these are exist, people know that 
WHAT THE HECK THESE ARE BECAUSE THERE ARE NO OTHER PARTIES IN ANY COMMUNIST 
BODIES ! ).

So, they replaced Thieu's government in 1975 under one UNIFIED party ! It 
meant that all parties did agree and no question ! or put in other word :
no dictatorship and no totalitarianism !

-And then, NVN army got back to Hanoi ? Nope ! Now everything must be clear to 
compensate for 30 years of old fighting which marked by lies, deceit and 
killing. No need to hide : PRG must go or must disappear !

-From 1976 on, nobody heard about PRG, even to the world. Now, real 
governmental power in what had been South Vietnam was subsequently 
execised by the Vietnamese Communist Party and its North Vietnamese 
leadership.

-At last, VC = Vietminh = North Vietnam communist



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