... and independent Vietnam. However, the adversities that plagued North and South Vietnam for the last eight years of Guerrilla warfare were still not dealt with and both regimes faced major problems. Consequently, "independence had brought nothing but a reign of terror" (Brawley) on both sides of the 17th parallel. Leader of the North, Ho Chi Minh aimed at ... flee south. Additionally, land reforms and redistribution regimes were successfully implemented to promote self-sufficiency from the south, revitalising a country facing impending famine to a country with the fastest growing econom...

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