By the end of 1959, Diệm was able to entirely control each family and the communists had to suffer their "darkest period" in their history. Membership declined by two thirds and they had almost no power in the countryside of South Vietnam.Jacobs, p. 90; Moyar, pp. 85–86. Diệm's repression extended beyond communists to anti-communist dissidents and anti-corruption whistleblowers. In 1956, after the "Anti-Communist Denunciation Campaign", Diệm issued Ordinance No. 6, which placed anyone who was considered a threat to the state and public order in jail or house arrest.Jacobs, pp. 89–90.
By the end of 1959, Diệm was able to entirely control each family and the communists had to suffer their "darkest period" in their history. Membership declined by two thirds and they had almost no powe,r in the countryside of South Vietnam.Jacobs, p. 90; Moyar, pp. 85–86. Diệm's repression extended beyond communists to anti-communist dissidents and anti-corruption whistleblowers. In 1956 after the "Anti-Communist Denunciation Campaign", Diệm issued Ordinance No. 6, which placed anyone who was considered a threat to the state and public order in jail or house arrest.Jacobs, pp. 89–90.