[angkor]

the will have to throw off the "foreign" influence of communism.

Good point.

Ho Chi Minh, a co-founder of the French Communist Party in 1919, and who lived in Moscow for about a decade thereafter.

Hardly a homegrown Vietnamese social philosophy.

Just as Pol Pot and Ieng Sary got their dose of French Communism three decades later while studying at the Sorbonne (Ieng detailed the Khmer Rouge agricultural gulag in his Sorbonne doctoral thesis).

[JimSEA]

Pol Pot and Ieng Sary got their dose of French Communism three decades later while studying at the Sorbonne

Absolutly. Also you can go back to the end of WWII in Burma when the Labour Government in GB sold out their wartime allies, the Karen and Shan, giving the Communist Burmese all they wanted. Of course many of the problems of today have their genesis in that disgraceful sellout.