The Only Choice in Life

In 1954, after nearly 75 years of occupation and 20 years of war, the Vietnamese finally kicked the French out of their country. This should have been an unequivocally good thing. The problem was that the pesky Cold War was going on,. A global religious war between the capitalist, liberal western powers, and the communist Eastern Bloc. And when it turned out that Ho Chi Minh, the guy who gave the French the ass kicking, was a communist, well, everyone kind of freaked out and thought this could spark World War III.