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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Remember Vietnam was divided in two. The South was very grateful the Americans were helping to fight the Communists and felt abandoned when the US left (even with some of the atrocities).
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It was the CIA that largely brought about the division of Vietnam, 'the south' didn't exist until the US invented it, and the reality is most Vietnamese were grateful to the Communists for throwing out the French, the US, in the height of anti communism in the mid 50's throw their full weight of propaganda into persuading the catholic minority that the communists would kill them, which succeded quite well, but on the whole the rest of the Vietnamese were never particularly supportive of the US effort to 'save' them from the evil commies mostly because the #######s we picked to run the place were all as bad as the commies or worse.
What the US did in South Vietnam was foist a catholic dictatorship onto a mostly Buddhist majority, the Catholics, being French educated were all mostly middle to upper class, and somewhat sympathetic to colonial rule, the buddhists majority were the poorer farmers and agrarian workers and were either supportive of the communists or at best nuetral.