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: It provided historical justification for the leadership of the Communist Party, endowing it with the "Mandate of Heaven." To this day, the legitimacy earned is constantly reiterated, reaffirmed, validated and deified. War-era heroes continue to monopolize peacetime authority; war-era military leadership has been reborn as totalitarian control. The party knows that although many things can change, the myth of its "Mandate of Heaven" must remain intact because every other element of its ideology has been betrayed or revealed as bankrupt. [ Source: Pham Thi Hoai, Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2005. Pham Thi Hoai, born in Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province in 1960, is the author of the novel "The Crystal Messenger" (1991) and a collection of short stories, "Menu de Dimanche" (1997). This article, translated by Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Peter Zinoman, and appears in a longer form at www.openDemocracy.net ==]
"Vietnam had to overcome the severe consequences of 30 years of war and started rebuilding the country. After that it focused on economical development and is striving to raise the annual income per capita, solidify the economy.