How Communism Nearly Starved Vietnam

180522 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. The 1975 collapse of the Republic of Vietnam - commonly referred to as South Vietnam - ended a three decade struggle to reunify the country.

The victorious North Vietnamese - led by the Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV - then embarked on a series of economic measures to wipe away colonialist influence and bring socialism to the country.

However, these measures failed to achieve their goals and the country tilted dangerously close to a famine.

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