u/walk0nwalls

The Geneva Accords that would've required the Viet Minh to facilitate elections occurred simultaneous with the land reform campaigns that exterminated their political rivals.

The Geneva Accords facilitating elections were never agreed to by the South most of all as all of the opponents of the communist regime had firsthand experience with their inability to administrate any political power-sharing freely.

Additionally claims that such power consolidation was done on behalf of their Chinese or Russian allies are bunk - the VCP clearly from the outset sought a policy of power seeking and unitary power to the exclusion of coalition governance.

Finally, to this day, 51 years after consolidating total power and 80+ years after seizing power in the north, the VCP still doesn't have majority support amongst the people of Vietnam despite being the only political party being allowed to exist.

Pathetic

TIL that despite insisting it has majority support the VCP has never allowed a free and fair election

"Viet Nam is a comeback story"

TIL that the Vietnam War was a joint Communist Imperialist Invasion