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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Vietnam controversy
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Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 04:37:17 EDT
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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.

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                    Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo

         	 (An Equal Opportunity Offender)