#7. Vietnam is still a Communist police state and Party dictatorship. What goes on in the hinterland doesn’t make the Hanoi press. The same for attacks on the Meos of Laos and the still communistic govt of Cambodia.
I was just reading old “Principal Reports” from Radio Hanoi and Liberation Radio (VC radio). They never were interested in real freedom for the people nor in telling the truth.
OK. they’re doing their repression in the dark, in the hills and mountains of the Central Highlands, against some Buddhists and Catholics, the Meo, etc. Don’t hear much about the fate of the Cao Dai or Hoa Hao do you? Same for the Chams.
The whole country is essentially a Marxist “Potemkin village”. Dig deep and you’ll find the dictatorship is alive and well, but not as open as it is in Red China. However, it is still there. So is Castro and Ortega, the SACP/ANC in So. Africa, and Little Rocket Man in No. Korea.
Putin is a red of another stripe. He’s openly a bully, killer, and megalomaniac.
Years ago a student of communism, Dr. Fred Schwarz, wrote a book entitled “You Can Trust The Communists to Be Communists”.
That observation remains as true today as it did about 60 years ago when he wrote that book.
The “truth” of communist Vietnam is buried in the mountains and field of I and II Corps, western III and IV Corps, where you can’t go.