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(V) French colonial hoops in Saiqon dUhng the 19305
soldiers, government employees, and disaffected
and unemployed intellectuals and teachers. Its
platform contained demands for the establishment
of a republican form of government (modeled
in the Chinese Qou Mindang version) and
the overthrow of the French colonial administration.
In February 1930, the VNQDD organized a
revolt of Vietnamese troops at Yen Bai, a garrison
located about sixty miles northwest of Hanoi, and
other military outposts. The revolt failed, and the
French moved with speed to run down the conspirators.
A handful of the nationalists fled to
China where they entered into an exile that effectively
excluded them from any future influence
inside Indochina. Their absence left the field
completely open to the other major source of
resistance to French colonial rule - the communists.
(D) The other opposition party was the
Indochinese Communist Party OCP). This was
the brainchild of Ho Chi Minh, who, for better or
worse, was the major influence in Indochinese
history in the mid-twentieth century. Ho had
been sent to Indochina by the Communist
International (COMINTERN), the organization
controlled by Moscow for the promotion of world
(V) Ho Chi Minh
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