| One interesting statistic is this: At the point of US withdrawal, 70% of the guerilla forces fighting in South Vietnam were members of the NVA and not Vietcong. The Vietcong had been so thoroughly decimated by then that they had come to rely on the North reinforcing them in order to continue. The North didn't exactly play the game by the rules.
The Cold War and the business of dividing nations into Communist and non-Communist halves was messy. Many Vietnamese saw Ho Chi Min as their own George Washington, having lead the Vietnamese in their successful overthrow of French control.
There is a topic on this already by the way.
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