Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxt!martillo From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Vietnam controversy Message-ID: <579@ihuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 04:37:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxt.579 Posted: Thu Jun 14 04:37:17 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 00:23:29 EDT References: <236@cadre.UUCP> Distribution: net.misc Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 18 There could have been no fair democratic election in which the Vietnamese communists took part. Ho Chi Minh never had more than minority support among the Vietnamese people. However the communists were willing to brutalize the Vietnamese people in a way which was unacceptable to all other Vietnamese factions. This brutality gave them the strength to win. Winning under such circumstances is hardly evidence of rightness or of popular support. The bolsheviks used the same technique. The Greek communists wanted to use the same technique at the end of WWII but external intervention prevented them. True the Greek governments have not been so wonderful since then, but then again the Greeks have now and then succeeded in replacing these governments. Brutal communist regimes seem to be impossible to replace. -- Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo (An Equal Opportunity Offender)