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The NLF of Vietnam (Vietcong) adopted a horizontally red over
blue flag with a yellow star in the centre. This flag was
that of the (communist) Republic of South Vietnam, adopted on
8 June, 1969. It became the only flag of South Vietnam
between April, 30, 1975 (when the anti-communist regime
collapsed) until 2 July 1975 (when North and South Vietnam
were united as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam). Ratio 2.3.
Jaume Ollé - June 1996 and Mark
Sensen - 18 September 1997
The "Vietcong" flag was simply a Communist flag with a blue
half. The blue half quickly dissolved on May 1st 1975 (not
July 2 1975), at the "reunification speech" of Le Duan, then
Communist Party's Secretary General, in Saigon. Even founding
members of the NLF (e.g. Nguye^~n Ho^.) now admit that they
were simply Communist Vietnam (North Vietnam) with a
different flag. Nguye^~n Ho^. is now under house arrest for
revealing these secrets.
Linh T. Tran - 5 December 1997
I have heard a story (probably apocryphal, but who's to say?) that the vietcong flag indicated unified co