country, we were going to do it for them.
Both the Soviet Union and China tried to hold Ho Ch Minh back military involvement in the south The ruling bureaucracies feared war with the US. In North Vietnam, the laws üneven combined development prevailed.
The revolution was li quidating capitalism.
Agrarian revolution gave Ine lana to lne peasants Landlords were being tried by people's courts. . In 1959 Hanoi decided to back the struggle in the south. The guerrilla forces were re grouped the National Liberation Front (NLF); called the Vietcong by the Americans and their Vietnamese stooges.
By C. Van Gelderen The NLF established a shadow government which commanded support from the DeoD e Salgor ficials would sit in their offices during the hours of daylight. When night fell, the NLF took over.
The Minh track was established, ensuring supplies thefighters in the south. This was a web of tracks, which could not have been maintained but for the active support of the people. Women played a decisive role in keeping it alive.
American forces were being reinforced. US air raids on the North destroyed targets but not tne morale or te people America's 'Operation Rolling Thunder' had fail ed. Then in 1968 came the Offensive. few weeks before, General Westmoreland had said: "The war was entering a new phase, the end was beginning to come into President Lyndon