Also, it's funny just to say the word "flag" in your head while reading these kinds of posts. "I asked my son to take me out behind the woodshed but then the war in flag started. Helping flag in its fight gave me the will to keep going. If I was still spry I'd be joining the flag army to fight for flag."
The Vietnamese fought for decades to free themselves from the colonial rule of the French, the Japanese, and later the US. They didn't need the USSR to convince them to do so, although the aid provided was certainly a good thing.
It's deeply ironic (or betrays your complete ignorance) to call the North "puppets" when they had wide support throughout Vietnam, unlike the Western-backed South government. The US prevented a democratic election of the entire country in 1956 because they knew that the communists would win it. Eisenhower estimated that Ho Chi Minh had 80% support.
I don't know what that comment above said, but it sounds like American brainworms.
Motherfucker, Ngo Dinh Diem outlawed Buddhism in a country that was over 70% Buddhist at the time and made Catholicism (that came from foreign colonizers) the state religion. But yeah, sure, it was the North who didn't have people's support.
Revisionist. I distinctly remember the Soviets sending Kirov airships and apocalypse tanks to Vietnam. Who can forget the last American building getting captured because a singular Soviet engineer walked into the building and turned it red???