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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2345225" data-attributes="member: 26473">I don't know much about the psychology involved, but what I do know is that the Vietminh went out of their way to target prisoners from the French colonies in North and West Africa for re-education - the viets treated them better and focused their program on them while in captivity, and in fact there were a number who later joined the ALN and cited the experience as a significant factor. Maoist doctrine was taught in the French Army as part of the counter-terrorism training that soldiers received, but for tirailleurs who returned and joined the ALN, it became a manual on how to fight the war against the French.Maoist revolutionary doctrine was also the justification the French Army used for claiming that the fight against the FLN was 'containing Communism' and for employing torture as a counter-insurgency tool... :\</blockquote>