Editing Viet Minh (section)

== Influences on neighbouring countries ==
=== Khmer Việt Minh ===
{{main|Khmer Issarak|United Issarak Front}}{{See also|Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation|Cambodian People's Party}}
The Khmer Việt Minh were the 3,000 to 5,000 [[Communist Party of Kampuchea|Cambodian communist]] cadres, left-wing members of the [[Khmer Issarak]] movement regrouped in the [[United Issarak Front]] after 1950, most of whom lived in exile in North Vietnam after the [[Geneva Conference (1954)|1954 Geneva Conference]]. Khmer Issarak and United Issarak Front were under leadership of [[Son Ngoc Minh]], [[Tou Samouth]], Sieu Heng, etc. It was a derogatory term used by [[Norodom Sihanouk]], dismissing the Cambodian leftists who had been organizing pro-independence agitations in alliance with the Vietnamese.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cambodia/kh_appnb.html |title=Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Cambodia / Appendix B |publisher=Lcweb2.loc.gov |access-date=4 January 2015 |archive-date=6 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306190527/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cambodia/kh_appnb.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Sihanouk's public criticism and mockery of the Khmer Issarak had the damaging effect of increasing the power of the hardline, anti-Vietnamese, but also anti-monarchist, members of the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]] (CPK), led by [[Pol Pot]].<ref name=kiernan227>Ben Kiernan. ''How Pol Pot came to power'', Yale University Press, 2004, p. 227</ref>

The Khmer Issarak and United Issarak Front were instrumental in the foundation of the [[Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation|Cambodian Salvation Front]] (FUNSK) in 1978. The FUNSK invaded Cambodia along with the [[People's Army of Vietnam|Vietnamese Army]] and overthrew the [[Democratic Kampuchea]] Pol Pot state. Many of the Khmer Việt Minh had married Vietnamese women during their long exile in Vietnam.<ref>Margaret Slocomb, ''The People's Republic of Kampuchea, 1979–1989: The revolution after Pol Pot'' {{ISBN|978-974-9575-34-5}}</ref>

=== Laotian Việt Minh ===
{{main|Lao Issara|Pathet Lao}}{{See also|Lao Front for National Development|Lao People's Revolutionary Party}}
[[Lao Issara]] (''Free Laos'') was a political and military organization of Laotian communists, led by [[Phetsarath]], [[Souphanouvong]], [[Kaysone Phomvihane]], [[Phoumi Vongvichit]]. Lao Issara received training and support from [[Việt Minh]]. Under French intervention, Lao Issara was split into non-communists and communists. Laotian non-communists under leadership of Pretsarath later established the [[Kingdom of Laos]] which was part of the [[French Union]].

However Laotian communists rejected the French offer and fought side by side with Vietnamese communists during the [[First Indochina War]]. In 1950, Lao Issara was renamed to [[Pathet Lao]] (''Laos Nation'') under leadership of [[Souphanouvong]], [[Kaysone Phomvihane]], [[Phoumi Vongvichit]], etc.