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Reunification
Vietnam may have been united, but it would take a long time to heal the scars of war.
Damage from the fighting extended from unmarked minefields to war-focused, dysfunc-
tional economies; from a chemically poisoned countryside to a population that had been
physically or mentally battered.
The party decided on a rapid transition to socialism in the South, but this proved disas-
trous for the economy. Reunification was accompanied by widespread political repression.
Despite repeated promises to the contrary, hundreds of thousands of people who had ties
to the previous regime had their property confiscated and were rounded up and im-
prisoned without trial in forced-labour camps, euphemistically known as re-education
camps.
Author and documentary film-maker John Pilger was ripping into the establishment long be-
fore Michael Moore rode into town. Get to grips with his hard-hitting views on the war in Viet-
nam at
www.johnpilger.com
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