Title: VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR | Facts and Details
Headings: VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR
VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR
VIETNAM AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR
Vietnamese Government After the War
Boat People Flee Vietnam
Vietnamese Government After the Vietnam War
Problems with the Vietnamese Economy After the Vietnam War in 1975
Economic Policy After the Vietnam War
Results of the Economic Policy After the Vietnam War
Hard Times for South Vietnamese After the Vietnam War
Society in Vietnam After Reunification in 1975
Repression and Coercion and Changes in Vietnamese Society After 1975
Post-Vietnam-War Reeducation Camps
Hardships at the Reeducation Camps
Life in Vietnam After the War
Hunger and Queues in Hanoi
Repression and New Economic Zones After the Vietnam War
Harsh Economic Life in the late 1970s and Early 1980s
Army Says Errors Made after Vietnam Re-Unified
Vietnam’s Foreign Relations After the Vietnam War
Vietnam and Cambodia
1979 Chinese-Vietnamese Border War
Reasons for 1979 Chinese-Vietnamese Border War
Events Before the China-Vietnam War
Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Debacle in Vietnam in 1979

Content: Without incentives, productivity went down and Vietnam became a rice importer. The party confiscated property and wealth. Overnight, millionaires became paupers. Children of South Vietnamese soldiers were denied access to the best colleges and the good jobs, and the spirit of reconciliation withered. Newspapers disappeared, movie theaters closed, bank safe-deposit boxes were sealed. Ordinary Vietnamese were forbidden to have contact with foreigners. More than 400,000 South Vietnamese were sent off to reeducation camps, some to languish for years. [ Source: David Lamb, Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2005]
Pham Thi Hoai wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "The Vietnam War was a complete victory for the communists. The war was the mother's milk, the school and the testing ground of Vietnamese communism.