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Communism in Vietnam
Communism in Vietnam is closely associated with the country's modern history and politics. Marxism–Leninism was first introduced into Vietnam in the 1920s. In 1930, the anti-colonial revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh, acting under the direction of the Comintern, coordinated the unification of three competing communist organizations in Hong Kong, establishing the Communist Party of Vietnam (soon renamed to the Indochinese Communist Party). Trần Phú served as its first Secretary General. There were also influential Trotskyists in Vietnam until their suppression by the ICP. Both repressed by the French colonial authorities, republicans were far more popular than communists in the competition between the two groups for leadership of the national independence movement. Following the end of the Japanese occupation and the August Revolution in 1945, the ICP-led Việt Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). The party subsequently led the DRV through the First Indochina...
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