Commentary: Vietnam was the biggest victim of the cold war when the communism and capitalism waged hot war in Vietnam from 1960-1975. Communist propaganda was good at misleading the world’s public opinion that American involvement as aggressors and occupying force of South Vietnam.
Would large contingency of 170,00 Chinese soldiers have been considered as an occupying force too? Between 1965 and 1971 more than 320,000 Chinese troops were deployed in North Vietnam. The peak year for this was 1967, when there were around 170,000 Chinese in the DRV. Their work on military installations naturally meant that Chinese troops were susceptible to heavy American bombing; an estimated 1,000 Chinese were killed in the North in the late 1960s. The communist side also sent military personnel to help Vietnamese communists to wage war. The Soviet Union sent 3,000 soldiers to participate in the war against Americans.
Therefore, it is an aberration to believe that Vietnam war instigated by Vietnamese communists was a war for independence against foreign occupation. The late General Secretary of Communist Party, Le Duan, admitted later that Vietnam fought and died for Soviet Union and China in order to spread the red revolution (“Ta vào Nam nổ súng là đánh cho Trung Quốc, đánh cho Liên Xô”.) It is a natural fact that the revered Uncle Ho Chi Minh and his lieutenants were trained first and foremost as comintern agents before taking the power in Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh…a man with different faces and names.
Ho Chi Minh in Russia when Trotsky was still a favorite figure.
Comrade Nguyễn Ái Quốc at Fourth Congress Of The Communist International
