| A lot of the peasents joined the VC. It was a war that the peasents wanted to fight, not your city living vienamese you guys are referring to. In any of these countries like cuba or nepal where the govt up front looks good, the peasents are suffering. It was really land reform that they wanted since they were abused by landlords and the govt was no help. Factor in corruption and you have a nice place to set up marxism. That and i think a lot of people would have seen the north as a more legitimate govt than the south because they were the ones fighting the japanese and french for decades in order to gain independence.
I know vietnamese people too, the ones who came here are usually well taken care of either because there were professionals from vietnam or had families that hosted them in order to adapt. That's a case of the ones who didn't want to live in communists, but to a large segment of the population, communism seemed like salvation to them.
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