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Viet Minh at first and then later the Viet Cong.

2007-04-21 09:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by Black Jacque Chirac 3 · 3 0

They were called Việt cộng (Vietnamese communist or VC). During the anti-French years, Việt Minh (VM), which stands for Việt Nam Cách Mạng Đồng Minh Hội, was founded by Hồ Chí Minh. VM was the precursor to the Vietnamese Communist party. As the party had planted agents everywhere throughout the country, those in the South were militarily placed under Trung Ương Cục Miền Nam or Cục R for short, but they all were components of the party, run by the party central in Hà Nội and took direct orders from the North. Politically the VCs were grouped into the NLF (National Liberation Front) and were treated as a separate entity from Hà Nội but that was wrong. That was why at the Paris convention, there were four political representatives=US, Sài Gòn govt., Hà Nội govt and the NLF. Former South Premier Kỳ was correct to state "The NLF is a reality but shall not be an entity".

2007-04-21 11:48:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

patriots. (And many of them were *not* communists!)

(Warning : "Vietcong" is just a name invented by American puppet and South Vietnamese President/Dictator Ngo Dinh Diem, to belittle the "National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam" (In French : "Front National de Liberté" (FNL)!)

2007-04-21 09:27:56 · answer #3 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 1 1

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