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<blockquote data-quote="strathyboy" data-source="post: 266525" data-attributes="member: 538"><p>I'll respond to this now, and be back with more detailed information regarding Nam in a little while. </p><p>In France after WW2 there was a relatively popular and powerful communist movement. The US knew this, as did most allies, and given that the USSR controlled half of Germany and all the Warsaw Pact nations (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, etc.), it was tremendously undesireable to allow a communist power to be voted in in France. It was believed that if the US didn't aid the French colonialism in IndoChina, the French Communists would gain power in France. So, it was a win-win against communism for the anti-communist nations, but unfortunately something like 40 million Vietnamese had to suffer while "bigger and better" nations used them as a pawn. </p><p></p><p>On another side note.... In the 1950's, Ho Chi Minh retired and disbanded the Communist Party, and promised not to run for president of a unified Vietnam. The US and South Vietnam still blatantly refused to allow elections on reunification, despite a direct order in the Geneva Accords. Again, this proves that the unification of Vietnam was much more important to Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese than was a communist system. This is of utmost importance in the argument over whether the US was fighting against communism, or against independence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="strathyboy, post: 266525, member: 538"] I'll respond to this now, and be back with more detailed information regarding Nam in a little while. In France after WW2 there was a relatively popular and powerful communist movement. The US knew this, as did most allies, and given that the USSR controlled half of Germany and all the Warsaw Pact nations (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, etc.), it was tremendously undesireable to allow a communist power to be voted in in France. It was believed that if the US didn't aid the French colonialism in IndoChina, the French Communists would gain power in France. So, it was a win-win against communism for the anti-communist nations, but unfortunately something like 40 million Vietnamese had to suffer while "bigger and better" nations used them as a pawn. On another side note.... In the 1950's, Ho Chi Minh retired and disbanded the Communist Party, and promised not to run for president of a unified Vietnam. The US and South Vietnam still blatantly refused to allow elections on reunification, despite a direct order in the Geneva Accords. Again, this proves that the unification of Vietnam was much more important to Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese than was a communist system. This is of utmost importance in the argument over whether the US was fighting against communism, or against independence. [/QUOTE]
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