Viet Cong
Viet Cong Nickname for the Vietnamese communist guerrillas who fought against the US-supported regime in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. After earlier, isolated revolts against the government of Ngo Dinh Diem, the movement unified (1960) as the National Liberation Front (NLF), modelled on the Viet Minh.
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