Union of Indochina

**Union of Republics of Indochina** (In Vietnamese: *Đông Dương Liên Hiệp Cộng Hòa;* In French: *Union des républiques d'Indochine*; In Chinese: 東揚聯合共和國) or more commonly **The** **Union of Indochina** is a socialist federal republic that occupies the entire Indochinese peninsula. Created in the October Revolution of 1947, it has grown to be a significant regional power following the collapse of German colonial authority. However, It is not without strife.

## History

Main Article: Indochinese Revolution

By 1940, secret agreements between underground indochinese nationalist and socialist resistance groups had finally coalesced. From these talks rose the United Front movement chiefly led by the National Party of Indochina, itself a merger of the Young Revolutionary Association with the Revolutionary Movement of the Annamite People on the basic created in 1925 of the Revive the Light Society. Mirroring the old Restoration and Democratic Front’s of Vietnam, this new movement featured a variety of interested parties. Among those involved were the newly created underground Nationalist Party, the Youth Aspiration Party of Nguyễn An Ninh, the Proletarian Group and their La Lutte newspaper of Tạ Thu Thâu, the Communist League of Indochina, the Annam Communist Party and the Socialist Party of Vietnam.

Most Impressive of all for United Front advocates however, was the successful inclusion of the center-rightist National Front. A faction who would join as the movement gained momentum in 1947, just prior to the October Revolution. This would be the first and last time such collaboration would be possible.

### The October Revolution

(Also known as the **Resurrection of the Homeland** or the **Two Glorious Weeks**) The 1947 October Revolution began with a series of mutinies and public demonstrations across Indochinese cities. Soon the incidents erupted into armed revolts, toppling the ailing General-Government of Indochina. From its ashes arose 3 republics. These efforts were led by the now-dissolved “Front for the Liberation of Indochina ''

### Autumn Political Crisis

Also known as the Vietnamese Paramilitary War by foreign sources as its localised mostly entirely within the DRV, referring to the period of 3 months from June to the end of August. The uneasy political peace formed in the first election collapsed over increasingly different ideological compositions of participants with rightists parties accusing the PNI of communism as well as treasonous with the singing of the Japanese-Indochinese Protocol, the harshly put in place Consitution is also now an object of great conflict as many see it as groundwork for the formation of a communist state. Brutal political violences also esclated with the murders of party functionaries and their supporters, many non-PNI delegates boycott their seats were dragged by police to parliament. Conspiracies and secret organs exists all over the National Army and its numerous partisan forces. The Crisis began with the Dai Viet Rebellion, the 3rd Republican Guard Division (brigade-strenght) which was formed under the auspices of the Dai Viet party despite several purging efforts to ban this radical extremist party, never the lest, sympathisers survived in its highest ranks. launched a coup d'tat in the city of Saigon after a terrorist attack attempting to wipe out the Parliament, both objective failed after the city was recaptured after 3 days of the so-called "Dai Viet Republic" being proclaimed. But it was enough a context for the anti-PNI forces to launch into action, an opposition Government was proclaimed in Hanoi, the DRV's capital led by a coalition of anti-PNI parties who demanded the federal government to resign and contested the legitimacy of DRV Republican Government, its supporters mainly businesses and Tonkinese landowners opposing the PNI's anti-landlordism but also royalists were able to captured the People's Parliament building (former Grand Opera House), clashes in the streets between counter-protesters, protesters and polices in several cities were attempts also occured to seize governments, in some cases direct fighting such as Bac Giang, lasted for several weeks despite the so-called "National Government" forced to flee the city as polices tried to storm the building after the first week, they was arrested for conspiracy a week later after relocated into a village outside the city, charged with treason and seditions, this would mark the last attempt to resist the PNI's rule in Vietnam by right-wing forces.

## Structure

The Union is a federal representative unicameral parliamentary republic. Its divided into the Laotian Democratic Republic, Kampuchean Democratic Republic and the Vietnamese Democratic Republic (Vietnam's Republic Assembly was moved to Hanoi by decree 19/LB in 1948 to avoid a centralization of power in Saigon). Each with their own National Parliament and Council of State. However, most legislative powers still remain solely on the Supreme People's Parliament and the federal Council of State, as appointed by recommendation of the Prime Minter.

## National Army of Indochina

After the Paramilitary War and the absolute assertion of the PNI on Vietnamese politics was established, the Party-Armies that was too common during the early years of the Revolution and the first 3 Republican years was abolished forcefully. The National Army of Indochina was to be a centralised structure under the supreme authority of the People's Parliament and the President of the Union (albeit Kampuchea and Laos retained its autonomous control of their own national army), with an ultimatum to either disband and merge or be charged with high treason against the Democratic Republic. Within a few months all internal militias, already near destroyed in the Paramilitary War disappeared. The victorious militias was also disbanded to reform into a coherent structure of forces. Red Guards, Republican National Guards and the Republican Guards were reformed with the National Guards becoming the militiary reserve formations of the National Army while the Republican Guards was delegated down to the role of a Gendarmerie forces in support of the National Security Bureau (Surete Nationale de Republique).

## Politics

### The People's Parliament

Also commonly referred to as the National Assembly, its the supreme unicameral legislature body of the Union, each Republic has their own national parliament, however in the nature of the Union, most power are vested in its federal parliament.

### Third Cabinet of the Union

As established by the 1st and 2nd Cabinet of the Union as an unspoken rule, the First Vice PM always must belong to the KDR the 2nd Vice PM to the LDR and the 3rd Vice PM to the 2nd largest party in the government.

### Supreme Advisor Council

Created originally in 1946 following the Revolution as a non-partisan body to counsel the government of the day by representatives of all aspects of the population, regardless, its functions were limited and often supplanted by the Supreme National Defense Council until the 1949 Consitution and revolutionary chaos ended.

 Phêrô Maria Khuất Văn Tạo
 Thích Minh Nguyệt
 Vương Chí Sình

## Foreign Relations

Following the landing of Japanese forces in Danang following the Revolution, the Republican Government presented the Japanese with a fait-accompli on the establishment of Republican power on the entire Indochinese territory, however, in the need of pragmatism and appeasement, the Japanese gained control over the German naval base of Cam Ranh along with some surviving ships of the German East Asian fleet. As well as allowing Japan to jointly garrison some cities in the months leading up the General Election of 1947. Japanese presences were attributed to the successes of the right-wings in forming a coherent opposition to the United National coalition. As the same time as the adoption of a new constitution, the Treaty of Friendship was signed with Japan establishing formal trade and diplomatic relationships. In the followed years, due to interests lied in different parts of Asia as well as being encased by Japanese allies and the Indian have not a fainted presence. The Japanese have left Indochina mostly to its affair