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Originally Posted by cmac2012
The govt. of the South didn't strike me as being all too concerned about the Vietnamese peasants feeding their families. The peasants hated the damned model villages and burned them when they finally got the chance to leave.
French atrocities against the peasants there are rarely spoken of. Things like lining their warships along the coast and shelling villages to soften up the oppositon.
Diem and Thieu (sp) were corrupt and unpopular. Neither came close to the sort of public support that Ho had.
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That's about the way I see it too. But Ho did say he would rather sniff French farts than kow tow to the Chinese.