What if S. Vietnam won...

[RedMarxist]

What if South Vietnam won the Vietnam war? Would it become a base for US Forces in Southeast Asia seeking to undermine China? What would happen to Uncle Ho? To the communist movement in southeast Asia as a whole?

And, how "democratic" would S. Vietnam be, seeing as the US basically owned the country/corruption. Would it be less oppressive then today's Vietnam?

Finally, how would future socialist movements be affected by the fall of north Vietnam?

[Tommy4ever]

Well, I don't think there was ever a realistic desire for the South to invade the North. The Vietnam War essentially consisted of the US trying to prop up the regime in South Vietnam against a large popular movement which was in turn backed by the North.

So if the South had 'won' ie defeated the Vietcong, then there would have just been a divided Vietnam - similar to the situation in Korea. There probably wouldn't have been 'communist' regimes in Laos and Cambodia either.

There is no way to tell if the South would have been more or less oppressive.