On July 10, 1986, the leader of the Viet Cong, Le Duen, died of illness in Hanoi at the age of 79. Looking back at history, since the death of Ho Chi Minh in 1969, Lê Duần controlled Vietnamese government for 17 years, making him the most powerful leader in the history of the Viet Cong. So what about Li Sungqi? Is it really a product of intra-party balance?
In fact, from the ho Chi Minh era onwards, the various factions in the Viet Cong party were the product of interests. Although Ho Chi Minh orchestrated the contradictions within the party, he still did not have absolute control. After Vietnam entered the era of "Le Son", the balance of power within the Viet Cong no longer appeared, and the "southern faction" headed by Lê Duần quickly took over the central power.
On the mainland, Ho Chi Minh is often seen as a model of Sino-Vietnamese "brotherhood and comradehood", but for a long time Ho Chi Minh was almost limited in his power to govern politics. According to records, from 1965 onwards, Ho Chi Minh's image as a leader was gradually diluted, and his role in the party eventually evolved into the nature of a "mascot". Prior to this, Ho Chi Minh's wide prestige and "circle of friends" made his position in the Viet Cong party so strong that careerists like Le Son could not compare with it.
However, this changed with the official invasion of Vietnam by the U.S. military. At that time, In order to successfully become the leader of the party, Lê Duần openly co-opted all sides of the forces, and in September 1960, he became the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, becoming the number one person in the Politburo. At the beginning of Li Sun's tenure as general secretary, he often suppressed his ideas to cater to the old seniors, but as the regime gradually stabilized, he also embarked on the road of exclusion and crackdown.
Vu Yuan Kah, the soul of the Vietnamese military, was seen as a spokesman for Ho Chi Minh, enjoying high prestige in the Viet Cong, once threatening Le Son's position in the party. In this case, Li Sun decided to strike first. After a series of political struggles, Li Sun installed a large number of cronies in the army and dismissed Wu Yuanjia on the grounds of the defeat of the "Easter Offensive". Since then, although Wu Yuanjia has been serving as the minister of national defense, he has been declining in the army.
Unlike Ho Chi Minh, who is close to China, Li Sun has no feelings for China. In contrast, Li Sun was more willing to maintain relations with the Soviet Union, which had nothing to do with positions, but was a common problem of refined self-interest.
Since Li Sun took office, he has taken for granted the tremendous help provided by China in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Vietnam, and has not the slightest sense of gratitude. There is a saying that you can not love, but please do not hurt, What Li Sun did really hurt the hearts of Chinese comrades. At that time, in order to obtain the greatest interests and support, Li Sun often sent Long March, Fan Wen and others to Beijing to ask for assistance, and at every turn, the lion opened his mouth, which made Premier Zhou physically and mentally exhausted.
Although China has helped the Lisun regime a lot, Lisun has looked down on China. According to records, in 1952, Li Sun visited China. At that time, China was fighting the Korean battlefield, and when he returned, Ho Chi Minh asked Lê Sun's opinion, and he said contemptuously: "Vietnam is brave, and they are not brave at all." It can be seen that blind support is never fed to mature wolf cubs.
In 1972, US President Richard Nixon visited China and normalized Sino-US diplomatic relations. This greatly made Li Sun, who had always been wary of the United States, greatly dissatisfied, but at that time there was no backing support, and Li Sun could only hide these dissatisfactions in his heart. After Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated, the Soviet Union intended to win over Vietnam in order to realize its plan to attack China from north to south. When Li Sun saw it, the opportunity came, and he immediately threw himself into Mao Xiong's command and acted as a pioneer in opposing China.
China later gave a strong answer to Li Sun's armed provocation. In 1979, Chinese troops launched armed strikes against Vietnam from both Guangxi and Yunnan. At the end of the Sino-Vietnamese War, Vietnam's foreign debt was close to 8 billion US dollars, which was really a loss of money and a loss of troops. Although Lê Tên carried out economic reforms in order to reverse the economic downturn, such minor repairs were doomed to be futile, and the overwhelmed national economy had collapsed during the Sino-Vietnamese War!
On July 10, 1986, Lai Died in Hanoi, retaining the post of General Secretary at the time of his death. It is worth noting that Lê Thanh's evaluation in Vietnam is very high, and Vietnamese leader Nong Duc Manh once pointed out that Lê Duần's cause is inseparable from the glorious victory of the Vietnamese revolution in the twentieth century.