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::Are you serious? Out of all the possible criticisms that might be levied against my additions; this is one charge that I would never have imagined anyone would make. I'm baffled as to what exactly struck you as being in any way sympathetic to the Communist cause.[[User:JakeRMurrin|JakeRMurrin]] 23:00, 30 October 2010 (EDT)
::Are you serious? Out of all the possible criticisms that might be levied against my additions; this is one charge that I would never have imagined anyone would make. I'm baffled as to what exactly struck you as being in any way sympathetic to the Communist cause.[[User:JakeRMurrin|JakeRMurrin]] 23:00, 30 October 2010 (EDT)
:::I would appreciate a response! My best guess is that you misread the prelude section:
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Neither side respected the legitimacy of the other; as a consequence, the division was widely regarded as temporary. A British diplomat suggested that free elections be held in the North and South to determine the future of a unified Vietnam. Contrary to commonly repeated myths; it was North Vietnam, not South Vietnam, that was the most extreme and steadfast in its efforts to prevent any such election from taking place. Nevertheless, it is true that South Vietnam consistently opposed all such arguments, claiming that the majority of South Vietnamese wanted independence, but that those North Vietnamese who wanted conquest should not be allowed to veto their just demands. The United States was willing to accept free elections and a reunified Vietnam, Communist-led and hostile to China. Indeed, US officials favored such a default outcome; they listed it in secret communications never intended for public consumption (but released in the Pentagon Papers) under the heading "advantages."[2] The US gradually intervened, due to the insistence of the North on a campaign of military aggression, as part of its wider Cold War strategy of containment.
Unwilling to accept or even consider free elections, and with the South's economy growing rapidly and its prospects looking brighter by the day, Ho Chi Minh was up against a wall. A unity government was established in Laos, and the US was firmly committed to defending South Vietnam from conquest. Huge numbers of North Vietnamese desperately fled to the South for freedom. Cambodia was neutral and united behind the rule of Sihanouk. Despite repeated diplomatic efforts by the US to bring about a peaceful regional settlement; Hanoi became increasingly convinced that the revolution could be spread throughout Indochina only by force.
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In 1958, North Vietnam launched an invasion of Laos.[41]
In 1959, by its own admission, North Vietnam decided on war in South Vietnam. North Vietnam created the Viet Cong and sent 20,000 men to attack the South. In 1961, North Vietnam used 30,000 troops to build invasion routes via Laos and Cambodia. North Vietnam later admitted that it “played a decisive role” in bringing to power the Pathet Lao in Laos and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.[42]
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As every serious historian of the time knows, it simply is not true that free elections were ''ever'' "scheduled" for Vietnamese reunification. On the contrary, the Communists established a totalitarian dictatorship that made free elections impossible in the North after seizing power through mass murder and genocide! Far from mandating free elections, a British diplomat at the Geneva conference, noting that the odds of a non-violent solution seemed hopeless in the face of North Vietnam's intransigent refusal to accept the sovereignty of the South, pleaded for an election to settle the question. He had no illusions that this was anything but a pipe dream.[[User:JakeRMurrin|JakeRMurrin]] 22:32, 3 November 2010 (EDT)