Communist Party of Vietnam: Difference between revisions

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At the second Party Congress it was decided that the Communist Party would be split into three; one party for each of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. However, in an official note it said that the "Vietnamese party reserves the right to supervise the activities of its brother parties in Cambodia and Laos."

Beginning in 1953, the Communist Party of Vietnam launched a campaign of land reform. Hundreds of thousands of citizens were accused of being landlords and were summarily executed or [[torture]]d and starved in [[concentration camp]]s. More than 172,000 people died during the North Vietnam campaign after being classified as landowners and wealthy farmers, official records of the time show.

The [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]] was established in April 1951 and the Lao People's Party was formed four years later on 22 March 1955. The third Party Congress, held in Hanoi in 1960, formalized the tasks of constructing socialism in what was by then North Vietnam, or the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and committed the party to the liberation of South Vietnam. In the south, the United States of America established a pro-American Republic of Vietnam (RVN), commonly known as South Vietnam, in 1955. In 1960 DRV established a military-political front in the south called National Liberation Front of Southern Vietnam (Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng Miền Nam Việt Nam) or NLF for short. American side commonly referred to the NLF as the Viet Cong ([[Việt Cộng]]) or VC for short.

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 At the second Party Congress it was decided that the Communist Party would be split into three; one party for each of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. However, in an official note it said that the "Vietnamese party reserves the right to supervise the activities of its brother parties in Cambodia and Laos."
+Beginning in 1953, the Communist Party of Vietnam launched a campaign of land reform. Hundreds of thousands of citizens were accused of being landlords and were summarily executed or [[torture]]d and starved in [[concentration camp]]s. More than 172,000 people died during the North Vietnam campaign after being classified as landowners and wealthy farmers, official records of the time show.
 The [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]] was established in April 1951 and the Lao People's Party was formed four years later on 22 March 1955. The third Party Congress, held in Hanoi in 1960, formalized the tasks of constructing socialism in what was by then North Vietnam, or the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and committed the party to the liberation of South Vietnam. In the south, the United States of America established a pro-American Republic of Vietnam (RVN), commonly known as South Vietnam, in 1955. In 1960 DRV established a military-political front in the south called National Liberation Front of Southern Vietnam (Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng Miền Nam Việt Nam) or NLF for short. American side commonly referred to the NLF as the Viet Cong ([[Việt Cộng]]) or VC for short.