Thread:ZARGH80/@comment-45405656-20200610155439/@comment-45405656-20200611052917

Also Diệm wasn't a dictator, he didn't have his power over the constitution. Yes, he executed many communists who were believed to be Viet Congs (a terrorist organization), but remember that a massive number of 30,000 - 50,000 were killed for being suspected as "bourgeois" under Ho Chi Minh's rule. And what do you mean he wanted to convert Vietnam into a Catholic country? A majority South Vietnamese population were buddhists and a lot of overseas Vietnamese buddhists nowadays do show respect for him. Overall, he wasn't a dictator like Stalin or Park Chung-hee.