On July 2, 1976, Vietnam achieved the "reunification of the North and the South" and was officially known as the "Socialist Republic of Vietnam".
While the Vietnamese people were immersed in the joy of peace, the former South Vietnamese were so embarrassed. They are like rats crossing the street, being reviled by men. Not only that, but the ** wives who are called the "first lady" have also suffered a tragic fate without exception.
So, what led to the outbreak of the Vietnam War? What kind of difficult process did this war go through? And what kind of ups and downs do these ** wives have?
In the context of globalization, internal contradictions are becoming increasingly prominent and escalating.
Vietnam had long been subject to the old Chinese regime, but with the decline of the Qing Dynasty, aid to Vietnam was not forthcoming. So, in 1858, the French ** shelled the port of Da Nang in Vietnam, turning it into a French colony.
It is worth noting that "French Indo-China" is the name of the Indochina Peninsula during the colonial period of Vietnam. After the outbreak of World War II, the anti-fascist countries of the world united to fight against the colonizers, and the situation in Vietnam improved, but it fell into the rule of Japanese militarism and could not extricate itself.
In Vietnam's long history of plundering sovereignty, there have been many national heroes like China's anti-Japanese heroes, as well as "Vietnamese traitors" like traitors, including a Vietnamese democrat named Ngo Dinh Diem, who is considered to be the main figure leading to the outbreak of the Vietnam War.
Ngo Dinh Diem was born in 1901 in Hue, Vietnam, to a feudal bureaucratic landowner family, his father was a courtesy and official supervisor of the "Bao Da Imperial Court" during the Vietnamese imperial system, and his elder brother Ngo Dinh Quey also served as governor of Quang Nam Province for 15 years.
Ngo Dinh Diem came from a powerful family and enjoyed a very high status in Vietnam, which made him even more keen to tie up with the powerful. At the age of 21, he easily became the magistrate of Chao Phong district in Quang Tri province, Vietnam, and as his power grew, so did his desire for power.
However, it is surprising that when Vietnam was wantonly trampled by the invaders, Ngo Dinh Diem turned his back on the country and betrayed it for the sake of his own future.
During his tenure as the county magistrate of Chaofeng County, in order to suppress the anti-French movement in his country, Ngo Dinh Yen served as the magistrate of Hailang County, Ninh Thuan Province, and Binh Thuan Province as the magistrate of Hailang County, Quang Tri Province, and Binh Thuan Province, and finally became an important minister of the Bao Dynasty in 1933, taking charge of the military department and the official department, enjoying extremely high power.
However, he did not rest on his laurels, but tried to emulate the French parliamentary system and establish a "Vietnamese parliament" with a feudal bureaucracy in order to make a great career in his political career.
However, the French imperialists found that Ngo Dinh Diem was trying to escape their control, and directly abandoned this "puppet minister" and turned to support another pro-French Bao Da** - Fan Qiong.
Nor did Ngo Dinh Diem hesitate and immediately took refuge with the Japanese imperialists to pave the way for his political ambitions. In 1940, Ngo Dinh Diem secretly organized a group of old Vietnamese officials who were dissatisfied with Bao Da Chao, Pham Trung and the French colonialists, and established the "pro-Japanese clique".
On the one hand, he acted as a "traitor", and on the other hand, he plotted to overthrow the Baoda regime and the French colonizers and establish his own puppet regime. However, his attempt was again frustrated.
Ngo Dinh Diem was an important figure in Vietnamese history, and he tried to become Vietnam's prime minister, but this desire was not supported by the Japanese colonizers.
On the contrary, the Japanese colonists were more inclined to reuse the Bao Dynasty. Under these circumstances, Ngo Dinh Diem was forced to accept reality. After the end of World War II, Ngo Dinh Diem defected to France and became a spy for the French army in Indochina.
However, his actions were not approved by the French, but were despised for his repeated betrayal of power. When Emperor Bao was restored, Wu Tingyan's status declined significantly.
After seeing the situation clearly, Ngo Dinh Diem left the camp of the French imperialists, but did not give up his ambition to seek power and turned to the arms of the United States. At that time, in order to expand its global influence, the United States interfered heavily in the internal affairs of Southeast Asian countries, and even extended its hand to the already turbulent political situation in Vietnam.
At the end of 1950, at the invitation of Republican Senator Nolan and Cardinal Spelman, U.S. Dinh Diem went to the seminary in Decheng, Lake Island, New Jersey, for three years.
In 1954, he returned to Vietnam and became prime minister with the support of the United States. Since then, Ngo has become a thoroughly loyal lackey of the United States under the cloak of Catholicism.
However, this humble position could not satisfy his ambitions, and he tried in vain to exercise ** rule.
In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem staged a coup d'état in Saigon and established the Republic of Vietnam, also known as "South Vietnam", in opposition to the "Democratic Republic of Vietnam" (also known as "North Vietnam") established by the communist Viet Minh Minh led by Ho Chi Minh in northern Hanoi.
It is worth mentioning that this regime was a puppet regime established by Emperor Baoda, supported by French colonialism and US imperialism, and has never been recognized by China and the world.
As a result, South Vietnam, supported by the capitalist countries led by the United States, and North Vietnam, supported by the socialist countries led by the Soviet Union, formed a sharp confrontation in the Vietnamese regime, indicating that a bloody war was about to begin.
The Vietnam War was described as a product of the "US-Soviet struggle for hegemony", and its course gradually developed with the ebb and flow of the two great powers' involvement.
In 1961, after Kennedy became the United States, American special forces began to march into Vietnam, which marked the outbreak of the Vietnam War. Soon after, the United States used the Gulf of Tonkin incident as an excuse to expand the scope of the war, causing Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and other countries to join the South Vietnamese camp, and the United States occupied a dominant position in the initial war.
The course of the war has turned the situation on both sides upside down. Vietnam, a country that calls itself "Little China", has a proud national culture and has experienced decades of Western colonialism, and every Vietnamese has a strong democratic sentiment.
Although generally poorly educated, "xenophobia" is deeply entrenched. As a result, the Vietnamese were dissatisfied with the unscrupulous interference in internal affairs of the United States and lost support for the South Vietnamese regime.
The Western-educated South Vietnamese intelligentsia, who firmly believed in the values of freedom and democracy, resolutely opposed social injustice and the gap between the rich and the poor. However, out of concern for their own lives, they were always opposed to North Vietnamese ideology.
Under these circumstances, the South Vietnamese formed the idea of "opposing foreign rule, fighting for the National Liberation Front, hoping for early independence, but refusing to accept the administration of North Vietnam."
In the face of vacillating "center" attitudes, the North Vietnamese made it clear that they would not impose their own system on the South, but would adopt the method of "building socialism in the North and developing a national democratic revolution in the South".
Even today, North Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong speaks to Western politicians and firmly says: "No one would be stupid enough to want to annex the South!" As time passed, the "intermediaries" under the South Vietnamese regime gradually became influenced by the North Vietnamese and defected.
In addition, there are some "intermediaries" who have not joined the camp of the two sides and have also begun to lean towards the NATO regime.
In the early years, Ngo Dinh Diem spared no effort to get rid of the enemy, especially during the "Suppression of the Communist Party", he not only cracked down on the underground party, but also took the opportunity to attack and purge political opponents and disobedient sects and organizations, such as Buddhism, Cao Dai, and the gangster Pingchuan faction.
During the liberation of Vietnam, these organizations recruited a wide range of soldiers and talents, forming a united front "against Ngo Dinh Diem" and becoming the mass base and support force for the North Vietnamese regime.
Regimes that lost the hearts and minds of the people often failed to gain the world, and the North Vietnamese regime gradually became the dominant player in the war. However, in a war, it is still the balance of military power that really plays a decisive role.
South Vietnam has an army of 1 million, of which 500,000 are regulars, while the other 500,000 are local security forces made up of elderly people and children. South Vietnam's total army numbered 1 million, of which 500,000 were regulars, including 10 infantry divisions, special units, marines and airborne troops.
In the war between the United States and North Vietnam, although the South Vietnamese army was often portrayed as greedy for life and afraid of death, and low combat effectiveness, especially in the "Lanshan 719 Campaign" in 1971, the picture of the soldiers clinging to *** and fleeing after the rout left a deep impression on the audience around the world.
However, in reality, there is a discrepancy between what is "heard" and what is actually heard.
The South Vietnamese Army's elite Einsatzgruppen, marines, and airborne units were strong in combat, and they were able to cope with the North Vietnamese Army's "right time, place, and people."
According to military records, from the beginning of the Vietnam War to 1975, the South Vietnamese army did not have the defeat of the battalion or more as a formation, and in the comparison with the number of enemies killed, the combat effectiveness of the South Vietnamese army far exceeded that of the North Vietnamese army.
However, the South Vietnamese army also had some weaknesses that could not be ignored.