Article: The fall of Hanoi. (demise of communism in Vietnam) (includes related article about Vietnamese contract workers in the Soviet Union )

THIS JUNE the Communist regime in Hanoi will convene its seventh Party Congress. This congress will also be its last.

Even before Tiananmen Square and the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, there were signs of the collapse of Communism in Vietnam. Like Cuba, Vietnam has been propped up by huge Soviet subsidies, and, as subsidies have not prevented Cuba from becoming the sick man of the Americas, so they have not prevented Vietnam from suffering a parallel fate. At this critical juncture in Vietnam's history the question is not whether Hanoi will fall. The question is whether American policy will push it over the edge or give it a new burst of life.

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