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Thorn In The Heart

the death struggle without help, and saw few babies crying in
their dead mother arms.

Any things had a disaster before the 10th Vietnamese
Movable battalion was in the village to joint with French
militarist troops and discussed another move.

Vietminh agents appeared in immediately to control the
people after the operated troops moved out of the village. They
always clutched at the people as the threatened psychological to
make the people afraid for terrorist. They raised strategic
propaganda on the French troops’ dirty actions and the village’s
disaster to pull the people into their side.

It made the countryside civilians struggled with painful
suffering with tears and bloodies under the rims on both sides.

The more French and Vietnamese troops operated to look
for the enemy, the more they put the people into other side and
hated them in deeply by the true of foreigner’s domination.

Thus Vietminh agents killed the opposes in secrets,
threatened the people to connected tax, but they did not destroy
the paddies and villages as French Militarist had done for the
people. Also, Vietminh knew that the people in the countryside
had the simple life of the land, truly truth and easy to forgive
and forget. They had been working hard on the farm to make a
living from the generation to others. They loved their lands and
house that they built with their whole life much more as their
living.

With the tactical psychological warfare, Vietminh gave
some guerrilla soldiers working for the poor on the farms, lived
in the family as the adopted sons, and hid under the family cover
for the enemy. They made the poor satisfied, and the people in
the village looked at those actions then volunteered to help them
much more they needed to resist their enemy.

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