How Communism Nearly Starved Vietnam

The 1975 collapse of the Republic of Vietnam - commonly referred to as South Vietnam - ended a three decade struggle to reunify the country.
The victorious North Vietnamese - led by the Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV - then embarked on a series of economic measures to wipe away colonialist influence and bring socialism to the country.
However, these measures failed to achieve their goals and the country tilted dangerously close to a famine.
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