“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.”
I reacted to the talk about wanting to “unify” the country. Guess I’m on something of a hair trigger too.
“Unification” is how Ho and his propagandists here in the US were selling it, as if there was something inherently wrong about the people of South Vietnam not wanting to be subjects of a Communist police state. You’re just supposed to ignore the part about killing anyone who objected or otherwise got in the way of the Vanguard of the Revolution.