Le Duan died of illness, who will take over in Vietnam? Only half a year pro-Chinese Führer
At the Third Party Congress of the Workers' Party of Vietnam in 1960, 576 delegates unanimously elected Le Duan as General Secretary of Vietnam after consultation, making him the leader of the Politburo of Vietnam.
However, when Le Duan first took office, he showed a strong desire for power and control, especially in handling relations with China, and he always kept up with the pace of the Soviet Union.
In the 70s of the last century, Sino-US relations gradually eased and entered a period"Honeymoon phase"。This caused discontent in the Soviet Union, which decided to take action and try to encircle China by co-opting Vietnam.
To this end, the Soviet Union provided a lot of assistance to Vietnam, and Vietnamese leader Le Duan, under the ** of the Soviet Union, accepted the aid and turned to pro-Soviet and anti-Chinese. He became a pawn of the Soviet Union to contain China's development.
In 1976, Le Duan was re-elected general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and during his tenure he made a major decision: to carry out armed provocations against China. Then, in 1978, he launched another invasion of Cambodia, which was obviously "Xiang Zhuang dancing the sword and intending to Pei Gong", which seemed to be aimed at Cambodia, but in fact it was to disturb China's southern border.
As a result, in just one month from February to March 1979, a fierce war broke out between China and Vietnam in the border area, which is known as the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam.
In this war, our army bravely sacrificed more than 27,000 people, and the Vietnamese army was more than 110,000. I thought that this war would completely defeat Vietnam, but who knew that soon after, Vietnam began to counterattack.
In the past 10 years, armed conflicts in the border areas between China and Vietnam have never stopped, and Laoshan, Zhennanguan and other places have become battlefields for both sides. It is regrettable that Le Duan has demanded the return of the islands in the South China Sea that were illegally occupied by Vietnam, but these islands have been clearly owned by China as early as the Ho Chi Minh era.
Le Duan provoked the Sino-Vietnamese conflict, not only out of neglect of Vietnam's economic construction, but also with the intention of extorting aid from the Soviet Union through armed conflict, and at the same time testing China's bottom line.
He understood that Vietnam could not defeat our country, so it was necessary to find a balance in the conflict so that we would not compromise easily and avoid triggering a real war.
In 1986, Le Duan, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, died in Hanoi, and the Long March took over the baton and became the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The Long March, formerly known as Deng Chun District, deeply loved the story of the Long March of our Red Army, and could be said to be "yearning for it", so he renamed himself the Long March.
After Le Duan's death, Long March served as the general secretary of Vietnam. As a pro-China figure, after the Long March took office, the "100 percent real large-scale military training" between China and Vietnam in the past ten years really came to an end, and the relations between the two sides were also eased.
In Long March's view, his primary concern was not to repair ties with China or economic development, but to find his successor. Long March and Le Duan are the same age, both are 80 years old, and Le Duan has passed away, so Long March is worried that he will one day follow in his footsteps, so he must prepare in advance to determine the next leader.
After some investigation, Long March chose to support Nguyen Van Linh, who shared his political views and was also a "pro-China faction". Half a year later, in order to better temper Nguyen Van Linh and strengthen his authority, Long March resigned from the post of general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and only served as an adviser to the ** committee.
With the support of Nguyen Van Linh, the top leaders of the Viet Cong took the stage. Through the means of "saving the country by curve", the Long March allowed the pro-Chinese faction to seize the leadership of the Viet Cong. Two years later, Long March died, but his legacy was inherited by Nguyen Van Linh.
Nguyen Van Linh embarked on a drastic reform of Vietnam, most notably the economy. Drawing on the experience of China's reform and opening up, he believed that "reform is an inevitable means" and pushed Vietnam's economy onto an upward path by adjusting the investment structure, stabilizing the economic components, and realizing the coordination of the market economy and the planned economy.
In the fight against corruption, Nguyen Van Linh showed the courage to "take the initiative to self-expose". He opened a column entitled "Current Priorities" in the Vietnamese party newspaper "**", and personally wrote it, exposing the corruption inside and outside the Communist Party of Vietnam.
This act of "exposing one's own problems" put everyone in the Vietnamese Communist Party at risk, and some even tried to get rid of Nguyen Van Linh. But in the end, with his wisdom and courage, he successfully defused the crisis and won wide recognition and respect from the Vietnamese people.
His courage to expose his own ugliness has made him a highly regarded leader.
In 1990, Nguyen Van Linh met with our leaders in Chengdu, and he took the initiative to admit his mistakes and clearly expressed his desire to restore the friendly relations of the Ho Chi Minh period in Sino-Vietnamese relations.
The leaders of our country expressed their satisfaction with this and presented the poem "Brothers who have survived the catastrophe are here, and they smile when they meet each other." Nguyen Van Linh returned the favor with a poem expressing brotherly friendship and the desire to re-establish a thousand-year-old friendship.
A year later, the leaders of the two countries again issued a joint communiqué, and Sino-Vietnamese relations were normalized.
Without the foresight of the Long March, Nguyen Van Linh might not have been able to become the leader of the Viet Cong, because he was only in twelfth place out of 14 members of the Politburo at the time.
If the Long March had focused only on its own duties, then after his death, Vietnam** could be in turmoil. However, with his political insight, Long March planned ahead for the succession of future leaders and dared to relinquish leadership in Vietnam.