I was using elections as an example.
It was more of an insurgency than a "popular revolution". If that were the cae, then why was the VC all but defunct after Tet?
And you don't think that the systematic extermination policy I mentioned (e.g., operation Phoenix) had anything to do with it?
I mean, Jesus-onna-stick, I'm used to revisionist history, but your delusions have got to take the cake. Claiming that the systematic extermination of communists is some kind of indication that people started to no longer like communists is as ridiculous as, dunno, claiming that disappearance of private property under Lenin or Mao is because people no longer wanted to own stuff.
Also, since I'm at revisionist history, earlier you seemed to genuinely believe that there was some political engineered famine in the North... well, yes, engineered by the Americans that is. Let me introduce you to
Agent Blue, a herbicide not as well known as Agent Orange, but one which was specifically engineered to destroy rice. And enough soil contamination could even render the plot of land useless for agriculture long term.
Yes, you've read that right. America didn't just use such agents, you know, to deny the commies cover in the jungle, but some were explicitly and intentionally targeted to destroy crops and agricultural land.
Some 1.25 million gallons of Agent Blue alone were used in Vietnam alone, rendering half a million acres of agricultural land useless long term. That is, in addition to the more immediately destroyed crops.
So, yes, there was a politically engineered famine. But not by the commies. It was engineered by the murderous idiots at Washington.
Incidentally Agent Blue (and Orange, and White) was also used against Laos to destroy crops and arable land there too. Although, again, Laos was as per the 1962 Geneva convention a neutral country. And in Cambodia too.
Ironically the quest to maintain the chemical attacks secret (America feared it would be used by commie propaganda) was a cause for even more destruction, as conventional carpet bombings were used to "mask" the chemical attacks. You know, to make it look like everything died there because of normal bombs, not because of spraying chemicals.
In case you still wonder why those Khmer Rouge suddenly swelled in numbers. Destroying the peasants' crops, and "masking it" by carpet bombing their village, didn't quite make them love America.
up? Yes. But it was largely meant to draw out the Communists. It was meant as a short term solution, and the effects long term were not known.
