I'm smiling read letter from my uncle who moved to Vietnam

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8. Most people dont realize that Vietnam would have been an ally if we'd ended WW2 correctly.

They were a French colony before the war. They fought the Japanese DURING the war. After the war they just wanted independence. But the Allies just HAD to try to give them back to France. And the rest is history. They looked for help where they could find it; which was from the communists. Since the 90s they've slowly been moving away from the totalitarian model & now are more capitalist.
They're more an ally now than anytime since 1945.