They smuggled slaves into the country and took part in an active domestic slave trade
The main reason why the Ho Chi Minh Trail was important to the North Vietnamese and the NLF was because it provided for vital supply lines for the Viet Cong during the war.
The Great Leap Forward was a colossal failure on the part of the Chinese Communist Regime.
Explanation:
Mao Zedong's scheme of the Great Leap forward relied on the labor on common land and ablution of private property in China.
The workers were to make the country into an industrial powerhouse to bring general prosperity in the nation.
However, the policies of indiscriminate industrial work without any centralized industry in place meant that the produce was of third rate, the people were often overworked and the famine that came due to less focus on agrarian setup was devastating.
More than 10 million people lost their life in the famine that was a result of the Great Leap Forward.
