Viet-Minh Assets and the 1944 Silence in the China Theater
For decades, the record of a tactical alliance in French Indo-China remained buried, mirroring a sudden, unexplained gap in the war diaries of the Far East.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Indochina
Pham Van Dong Pushed for 13th Parallel Against French 18th
Top-secret communications to Mao Zedong show how Soviet officials felt Pham Van Dong had "no mature ideas" for pushing French forces back to the 13th parallel in 1954.
By Vera Kessler ·
Molotov Blocks Free Elections to Protect Kim Il Sung
Korean voters were denied a democratic poll after Soviet leadership pushed the UN out of the 1954 Geneva Conference to protect Kim Il Sung's grip on power.
By Roy Castellano ·