much of the improvement is due to the communist party abandoning Stalinist policy and instituting free market reforms.
hardcore communism in the neighboring country, under the Khmer rouge didn't work out thawesome for the Khmer people.
and the French occupation had more to do with imperialism than pure capitalism. for a long, long time, france has been one of the moresocialistic nations in the west.
Well, again, what they had wasn't Communism. It was this distorted bastardized view of Communism, like the USSR had, that wasn't anything like how Communism is supposed to be.
Again, I don't like Socialism or Communism, and Vietnam is using a free market policies, but that still doesn't say that Capitalism didn't destroy their country in the first place, pushing it towards those who would try and implement their view of Communism, forcibly, and then the wars that followed.
The US is the biggest threat to global security and has been for a long time.