yes the South Vietnamese didnt exist, there was no Northern equivalent of the Vietcong, it was a blatant puppet state. Also yes, traitors get executed, what happens if you lose a war. The NVA were actual patriots, end of story.
After demarcation in 1954, following the Geneva Accords, Vietnamese people raced to the South. The reason was simple: they did not want to live under communism. Many Vietnamese people saw the Vietnamese communists as foreign because they received so much assistance from the Soviets and the Chinese communists. A huge portion simply saw them as terrorists, which they were. American revolutionaries didn't set off bombs in coffee shops or murder the families of political opponents in the middle of the night, but the Viet Minh (and later Viet Cong) absolutely did.
The reason there was no northern equivalent of the Viet Cong post-1954 is because the North Vietnamese killed everyone. I mean that literally. Many people trying to flee to the south after demarcation were stopped and killed for being political enemies. Anyone who stuck around and did not swear allegiance to the communists was killed. Hell, even other communists were killed: between 1946 and 1960, the Vietnamese communists carried out a series of pogroms that eliminated tens of thousands (probably more) of Vietnamese communist groups that, in some way, opposed Ho Chi Minh. Some of them didn't even directly challenge Ho Chi Minh and were killed simply for believing in a different branch of communism, like Soviet-style urban communism. To the Vietnamese communists, the definition of a "traitor" changed every day and a huge reason the world didn't push the US on reunification was because the North Vietnamese kept slaughtering their own people for minor political criticisms.
Diem was a lot of things, but he was not pressured by the US. He was pro-American on his own. Him being a stubborn ass was actually a constant issue for the US. Diem was also the longest-serving leader of South Vietnam. You aren't the leader of a nation for 8 years if you're incompetent. I won't say he was the greatest leader, because he wasn't, but the idea that he was a complete boob surviving solely on US support is incorrect and is propaganda pushed forward by foreign anti-American communist groups, by retarded student protesters, and domestic anti-American "media" groups (traitors) who focused on Diem's insane wife, Madame Nhu (who was a shitposting cunt par excellence).
You know who
was a complete boob serving solely on US support? Literally all of the leaders after Diem who served a few months before being pushed out of office.
I don't know how to put this any other way, but retarded faggots like the one I'm quoting would easily find themselves on their knees, with their hands tied behind their backs, crying and begging that they were good little communists before getting shot in the back of their stupid little heads. Not because they even did anything wrong, per se, except think that communism is anything but the culmination of science as it is applied to the state: efficiency uber alles. If you are no longer useful, or are in any way a real or potential threat, you are eliminated.
