Did the Vietcong get anything out of the Vietnam War? (did they enslave the people of south vietnam.. etc)?

Answer 1

It is incorrect to use the term "Viet Cong" when referring to members of the National Liberation Force of Southern Vietnam (NLF). The term Viet Cong is a shortened term for Vietnamese Communists. The NLF had few members of the Vietnamese Communist Party. Most were ordinary people who wanted national liberation -- were Nationalists. Others were Buddhists, others were Trade Unionists.
The majority of the NLF members had little, or no knowledge of Communist ideology.

Did the NLF gain anything out of the Vietnam War? Yes, they gained national independence and reunification, something that was agreed upon at the 1954 Geneva Agreements.

No, they did not enslave the people of (the internationally illegal) South Vietnam. Most of the people in the south were glad that reunification had finally taken place.

Answer 2

Not much, actually. With the Tet Offensive of 1968, much of the National Liberation Front/Vietcong was decimated by the American military and units of the ARVN.

After Tet, much of the communist forces in South Vietnam were units of the North Vietnamese Army. When South Vietnam fell in 1975, it was the NVA that conquered the country.

Answer 3

After the US Congress cut off all funding to the South in 1974 they and the NVA won.

The enslavement came in April 1975 via The NVA. Continues to this day.

I know 17 escapees. When Helen went to visit her sister she told me to not say anything political when I called her. Her Father had been a low level S. Vietnamese Official and her Brother in Law and his brother were both career ARVN. The phones are tapped and people there DO disappear in the middle of the nite for saying the wrong thing.

A system exists based on old loyalties and family ties. If you have a connection to the old government you have problems.

Answer 4

The Viet Cong were mainly communist guerrilla forces composed of Southern Vietnamese who were pro communist, the regular Communist battalions were called North Vietnamese Army (NVA).

After the country became communist they implemented under a Communist Government a re-education policy (but nowhere as near as drastic as Pol-Pot in Cambodia with his "Turn The Clock Back To Year Zero" policy), however many South Vietnamese political as well as military including Officers and men were detained in special camps for re-education some are still in them, classed a special die-hard capitalist cases. Some who did not bend to the will of communism were "shot while trying to escape" or "died from illness!!!"

In general the most of the people, especially the poor farmers went about picnicking up the pieces and carrying on with their lives

Answer 5

Your being pretty vague. They were communists and nationalists. They wanted to unify their country under a communist regime. As for individual motivations, well those always vary from person to person. Keep in mind that in a third world country you can go from nothing to something fairly quickly in an armed group. So for many it was probaby a choice of maybe surviving farming or doing other peasant work or pick up arms and be fed and clothed and have others fear them. For many fear and respect holds no difference.

Answer 6

yeah they got something, they spread communism throughout all of vietnam...now they all get told what they can and can't do, the governement tells them what job they can have, where they will stand in society, take their money for the "better" cause.