@Meanlucario
I wish that companies would actually do something about this.
@AaronMk
I’m a guy on the LGBTQ+ spectrum who buys/plays a metric ass-load of video games, owns all three major 8th gen consoles, AND does reviews and livestreams of games.I’m pretty sure I have a right to speak up against this.
@AaronMk
…You have no idea how business works, do you?
In 1959, the Diem regime organized the so-called “ agrovilles concentration camps in which peasants were grouped together and kept under strict police surveillance. In 1962, the Americans and their puppets attempted to implement the “Staley-Taylor plan”, according to which the entire rural population of South Vietnam is to be concentrated in thousands of concentration camps.
This plan ends in complete failure; the guerrillas score some brilliant military victories in 1963 (at Ap Bac) and 1964 (at Binh Gia), while the puppet army is decimated by desertions.
The living conditions of the proletarians of the south are those of pure starvation; suffice it to say that, in 1962, 40% of the working population was registered in the employment offices. The invasion of U.S. goods, the famous “aid”, quickly liquidated the weak local industry. In the textile industry, one of the most important, 80% of the workers had been laid off.
No wonder why South Vietnam fell to the commies. Bastard policies that led to its collapse, plus the persecution of Buddhists.
The Diem government, created by the USA, immediately began the restoration of the large landed estates. The peasants had to abandon the lands they had occupied after the launch of the agrarian reform (about 2,000,000 hectares), and this was achieved through a series of bloody expeditions in the countryside.
In 1956, Diem forbade the villages from electing their own representatives according to the tradition of the communes, and appoints governmental village chiefs (the Ac On). The puppet government also establishes traveling “special courts” to wage terror in the countryside.
The restoration of the landowners gives good results; suffice it to say that in 1957, 1% of the owners had 44% of the surface cultivated with rice, while in 1934 1% of the owners had 358% of the same surface.
South Vietnam was (and still is) the region with the most concentrated ownership of land. After the launch of land reform, during the anti-French war, the peasants had driven out the landowners and occupied their land. After the Geneva Agreements, the Vietminh forces had to withdraw from the south and leave the field open to the return of the landowners and the bloody repression that accompanied them.
On the part of the DRV, there was no material or propaganda support to the insurrection; on the contrary, the Vietminh leaders who were still in the South argued that any recourse to violence should be avoided, in order not to be accused of violating the Geneva agreements. One of the exponents of the Front, Quyet Thang, declares about this period: “Very strict directives were issued in view of a very strict compliance with Geneva: we never went beyond the legal political struggle…. This cost us hard losses, our best comrades. And it took us a whole year to explain and convince everyone that it was the right line” (quoted by Lê Châu).
The opportunist press generally tends to emphasize this position of the North Vietnamese government, and happily hypes it up as a demonstration of its “good will for peace” and the aggressiveness of the Americans. The position held by the DRV, on the other hand, showed that, in line with the decisions of the great powers, it had now accepted as definitive the partition of the country into two. On the other hand, this “will to peace” was certainly not a merit when dealing with a stronger adversary.
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