>>1040575There were multiple reasons behind it. The first was that the history behind how the Indochina under the French was created. It was the expansion of the already existed domain of the Nguyễn dynasty which was already colonialist by the time the French defeated them. And how the Nguyễn dynasty achieved this was so to say extremely brutal. There rule was a kinh (the Vietnamese majority ethnic group) supremacist one that openly tried to destroy Khmer and Laotian culture down to banning their language and moving loads of kinh into settling inside Laos and Cambodia. Minh Mạng was a backward imperialist piece of shit trying to emulate the Han expansion and assimilation tactics of China.
So when the French arrived they basically just took over the already imperial administration to ran their businesses. Which caused even more frictions between the three. The Kinh people was basically seen as imperial stooges. The best western comparison I can give is Yugoslavia.
Because of that Ho saw the only way to mitigate this friction while following Leninism is to return to a looser form of the federation where the CPI has to be dissolved. Which using some hindsight with the collapse of both the USSR and Yugoslavia was correct. However I would say that the CPV should’ve taken a more active role with the CPK like with the LRPP rather than doing realpolitik with Sihanouk, but that’s also was the direct results of PRC intervention into the Geneva Convention of 1954.
The second reason was a practical one. The CPI at the time was dominated by Vietnamese people. Which made the agitation and recruitment of Cambodians and Laotians into the cause nearly impossible as the CPI was a completely alien entity that would be seen as social imperialism.