VLVL Rex and the BLGVN

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> Ho Chi Minh (who, by the
> way, was indeed a communist dictator and renowned for murdering and
> otherwise disposing of political opponents and dissidents)

NB the explicit reference in the text to the fate of the BLGVN: "some 500
Trotskyist cadres, none of whom, being to the left of Ho Chi Minh, were ever
heard from again" (207).

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> Rex is not talking about Asian dictators but about America explicitly in
> that quote.
> 
> Ironically it's been Ho Chi Minh's army that defeated Pol Pot, ended the
> killing fields and turned Cambodia into a free country. Thus to call the
> Vietnamese regime a "murderous dictatorship" just like the Khmer Rouge
> is absolutely wrong.