Original sentence: A puritan personality cult was also established around Ho Chi Minh, later extended nationwide after the Communist reunification.A widespread famine also occurred across North Vietnam throughout the 1950s, due to the regime's mismanagement of collectivized food supplies to the civilian population.Hundreds of thousands of peasants were massacred in Ho Chi Minh's home province of Nghe An, in a peasant revolt against the communist regime's collectivization of farmland across the North.Many died of exhaustion, starvation, illness (who often died without any medical attention), or assault by prison guards.North Vietnam was also known for its inhumane, brutal and abusive treatment of Vietnam War POWs.People of the middle- and upper-class, intellectuals, anti-communists, affiliates to the French colonial government and dissidents were also persecuted, imprisoned or killed.Prisoners were abused and beaten atop of labor-intensive work forced upon them.of the Vietnam, and is reminiscent to other Communist nations like North Korea, the Soviet Union, and China
Edited sentence: Hundreds of peasants were killed in Ho Chi Minh's home province of Nghe An, in a peasant revolt against the communist regime's collectivization of farmland across the North.People of the middle- and upper-class, anti-communists, affiliates to the French colonial government and dissidents were also persecuted, imprisoned or killed.Vietnam POWs is also an issue during Vietnam War