Vietminh

or Vi·et Minh

[ vee-et-min, vyet-, vee-it- ]

noun

1. a Vietnamese, Communist-led organization whose forces fought against the Japanese and especially against the French in Indochina: officially in existence 1941–51.
2. (used with a plural verb) the leaders, supporters, and fighters of this organization.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Vietminh.

Vietminh

/ ˌvjɛtˈmɪn /

noun

1. a Vietnamese organization led by Ho Chi Minh that first fought the Japanese and then the French (1941–54) in their attempt to achieve national independence
2. a member or group of members of this organization, esp in the armed forces
3. modifier of or relating to this organization or to its members

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vietminh¹

< Vietnamese Việt-Minh, short for Việt-Nam Độc-Lập Đông-Minh Vietnam Independence League

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vietminh¹

from Vietnamese Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi Vietnam League of Independence

Example Sentences

This was accompanied by a “rumor campaign that the Vietminh were being sent into China as railroad laborers.”

From MSNBC

Because this propaganda painted such a “scary picture” of life in the North, Lansdale claimed, “there was a really significant refusal to go North”47—not on the part of hardened Vietminh operatives, many of whom were ordered to remain behind in any case, but, rather, among the impressionable teenagers whom Hanoi hoped to lure north for insurgent training and subsequent infiltration back into the South.

From MSNBC

He found that the reports originated with a rumor campaign that had been started by the South Vietnamese army’s G-5, at his suggestion, to create the impression that the Vietminh were tools of Chinese imperialists.

From MSNBC

He recalled having an argument in 1954 with none other than Edward Lansdale “over a propaganda story” he had heard while visiting the North “about village children whose eardrums had been ruptured by the insertion of chopsticks during a Vietminh torture session.”

From MSNBC

Some nine hundred thousand refugees moved south, roughly two-thirds of them Catholics, while only thirty thousand people—mostly Vietminh cadres—went north.

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