“Ho Chi Minh’s Communists wanted to unify the country”
They wanted to rule the entire country, would be a better way to put it. They weren’t noble patriots seeking unity. They were communist filth set on a blood bath.
Eventually they got it. Sooner, if you count Hue.
I figured the fact that they were Communists and were “killing village leaders and other South Vietnam officials” should have indicated what they were doing.