At 1945, directly following the power vacuum left by Japanese occupation after their defeat of World War II, ICP formed a Vietnamese Independence League- the Vietminh. The Vietminh was an umbrella grouping of anti-French and anti-Japanese nationalists, but with the handle of an umbrella-hence control-held firmly in hidden communist hands. To Ho Chi Minh and the ICP, the success of the national revolution would require mass support, but if the Vietminh were seen as a communist-front organization, it would deter non-communists from participating. Therefore, the Vietminh¡¯s manifesto emphasized simple patriotic themes and was designed to appeal to a wide spectrum of Vietnamese nationalist opinion. Later, when the national revolution had been completed, the ICP could abandon its bourgeois and progressive ¡®allies¡¯ in the Vietminh and move to implement its Marxist-Leninist agenda. With successful establishment of Vietminh, the 1945 August revolution shaped a memorable moment of Vietnam¡¯s history and critically contributed in establishment of DRV. The question i

By the time of August Revolution of 1945, the Vietnamese communists were longing for broad support in order to arrange a number of soldiers and supplies from local people, and intelligence. The numbers of ICP were still small, probably two or three thousand by 1944. Its base areas were isolated, and its arms inconsequential. Its urban organization was decimated and haphazard, despite good relations with students and the intelligentsia. So, even though the communists planned to abandon reactionary and bourgeois allies, the most urgent goal of ICP was to make most allies as possible to occupy the Vietnam in power vacuum and establish an independent government. The Communist¡¯s plea for support was to persuade more ally as possible for nationalist coalition and use their poised power to overthrow any resistance in ICP¡¯s way to independent government.

If there were several issues confronting ICP that caused failures in communist policies, why did Vietnamese choose communism as their driving principle? There are number of reasons. Actually, during the national liberation period, Vietnamese people did not have traditional indigenous leadership. No matter how much support a Party is getting from its people, nationalism alone could not lead to successful national liberation. They needed an indigenous leadership to achieve liberation successfully. Also, they needed a structural ideology. Fair enough, there were lots of workable plans and points in communism, unlike other ideas with central and nebulous ideology. The communism h

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