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1893
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1945
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The Pathet Lao (Lao: ປະເທດລາວ, romanized: Pa thēt Lāo, lit. 'Lao Nation'[1]), officially the Lao People's Liberation Army, was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century. The group ultimately conquered the entire country in 1975, after the Laotian Civil War. The Pathet Lao were always closely associated with Vietnamese communists and North Vietnam. During the civil war, it was effectively organized, equipped and even led by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). They fought against the anti-communist forces in the Vietnam War. Eventually, the term became the generic name for Laotian communists.
Under orders from Mao Zedong, the People's Liberation Army provided 115,000 guns, 920,000 grenades and 170 million bullets, and trained more than 700 of its military officers.[2]
^Andrea Matles Savada, ed. (1994). "The Pathet Lao". Laos: A Country Study. GPO for the Library of Congress. Archived from the original on June 26, 2022. Retrieved August 8, 2011. .... The basic stance of this front's propaganda was the united struggle against the French without reference to political parties or ideology. Illustrative of this stance was the use henceforth of the name Pathet Lao (Lao Nation).
^Brazinsky, Gregg A. (2017) Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War, p. 249, The University of North Carolina Press
contains Lao text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Lao script. The PathetLao (Lao: ປະເທດລາວ...
1959, which saw the communist PathetLao, supported by North Vietnam and the Soviet Union, fight against the Royal Lao Armed Forces, supported by the...
throne to the PathetLao during the civil war in Laos, who abolished the monarchy in favour of a Marxist–Leninist state called the Lao People's Democratic...
(1959–1975) was a civil war in Laos waged between the Communist PathetLao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. It is associated...
During the Lao Civil War, the PathetLao actively used members of the Sangha in their propaganda campaign. For example, a seized PathetLao document dated...
was first adopted in 1945 under the short-lived Lao Issara government of 1945–46, then by the PathetLao. It is one of the two flags of a country currently...
North Vietnam supported the PathetLao to fight against the Kingdom of Laos between 1958 and 1959. Control over Laos allowed for the eventual construction...
backed by the US against the PathetLao and its North Vietnamese allies. Massive aerial bombardment against the PathetLao and PAVN forces were carried...
Souphanouvong convened the first congress of the Lao Freedom Front (Neo Lao Issara), more generally known as the PathetLao, which served as the vehicle for the communist...
his forced abdication in 1975. His rule ended with the takeover by the PathetLao in 1975, after which he and his family were sent to a re-education camp...
communist PathetLao guerrillas in the neighboring Kingdom of Laos. During his years as prime minister Sarit was a patron of his cousin, the Lao strongman...
geographic fate. Fighting soon erupted between elements of the PathetLao and the Royal Lao Army. Although tentative negotiations resumed between the factions...
late 1960s, supported by the North Vietnamese army, the Viet Cong, the PathetLao, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Although it originally fought...
the newly independent Lao state in 1953. As the Laotian Civil War broke out between the Royal Lao Government and the PathetLao, Vientiane became unstable...
weight of the battle against Vietnamese communist invaders and local PathetLao insurgents. Despite its continual drain of heavy pilot and aircraft losses...
communist PathetLao. The Vietnamese communists continued to support the PathetLao after the end of the Laotian Civil War and the establishment of the Lao People's...
with the communist PathetLao and the North Vietnamese, others were recognized for serving in combat against the NVA and the PathetLao, helping block Hanoi's...
most Lao migrants were refugees who fled Laos after the Laotian Civil War (part of the greater Vietnam War) and from the new communist PathetLao government...
country's 13 provinces. To meet the threat represented by the PathetLao insurgency, the Royal Lao Army depended on a small French military training mission...
organized Hmong people to fight against the North Vietnamese-backed PathetLao. The PathetLao were the communists in Laos. The CIA-backed Hmong and Iu Mien...
pro-American Lao officer, Sisouk na Champassak: "Black market deals in American aid dollars reached such proportions that the PathetLao needed no propaganda...
(PAVN) and the PathetLao, against airmen of the United States Air Force (USAF)'s 1st Combat Evaluation Group, elements of the Royal Lao Army, Royal Thai...
Phi, including Lao phi worship, and Yao Taoism. Some practice Theravada Buddhism. Some Lao Soung fought against the communist PathetLao government in...
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to the Lao throne. Laos was a monarchy until 1975, when the communist PathetLao seized control of the nation, causing Savang Vatthana to abdicate his...
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