Việt gian is a pejorative term referring to a Vietnamese person who betrays, compromises or acts against the interests of Vietnam. The term Việt gian first appeared in 1938, denoting Vietnamese who su
A Viet Minh soldier and a anti-communist nationalist soldier, wearing a salacot and calot respectively, accuse each other of being Việt gian. Drawing from a nationalist newspaper in Huế, June 1947
1945 Viet Minh propaganda poster calls for the eradication of the Việt gian.
South Vietnam propaganda poster uses the phrase Việt gian cộng sản.
Trotskyism in Vietnam was represented by those who, in left opposition to the Indochinese Communist Party of Hồ Chí Minh, identified with the call of Leon Trotsky to re-found "vanguard parties of prol
Prominent Trotskyists in Vietnam
La Lutte 23 February 1935. Introducing the "Workers' Slate" for the Saigon City Council elections.
The Trotskyist League of Vietnam in Saigon, 21 August 1945.