Editing Viet Minh (section)

== Organization ==
At the national level, Viet Minh is governed by the General Department (''Tổng bộ'').<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |url=https://his.ussh.vnu.edu.vn/vi/news/nguyen-thu-ha/tim-hieu-ve-mat-tran-viet-minh-5759.html |title=Tìm hiểu về mặt trận Việt Minh (PGS. TS. Phạm Hồng Tung) |first=Khoa Lịch |last=sử |date=9 August 2023 |website=Khoa Lịch sử |access-date=8 August 2024 |archive-date=5 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805000353/https://his.ussh.vnu.edu.vn/vi/news/nguyen-thu-ha/tim-hieu-ve-mat-tran-viet-minh-5759.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Further down there were executive committees in provinces and cities; and executive commissions in communes.

However, due to political turmoil and civil unrest at the time, plus conflicts with Japanese and French forces, the Viet Minh's General Department was not completely elected.<ref name="auto" /> Hence the details about members of the General Department were very scarce and not fully understood.

Viet Minh established strongholds in northern and central Vietnam.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite book |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/oa_monograph/book/74917 |title=Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960 |first=Alec |last=Holcombe |date=9 August 2020 |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |isbn=978-0-8248-8446-8 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |url=http://aejjrsite.free.fr/goodmorning/gm191/gm191_TheSovereignStatesOfVietnam1945-55.pdf |title=The Sovereign States of Vietnam |access-date=8 August 2024 |archive-date=7 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807170941/http://aejjrsite.free.fr/goodmorning/gm191/gm191_TheSovereignStatesOfVietnam1945-55.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> But in southern Vietnam, Viet Minh faced many challengers such as [[Cao Đài]], [[Hòa Hảo]] (religious sects) and [[Bình Xuyên]] (armed group).<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzp2k |title=Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier |last=Luận |first=Nguyễn Công |year=2012 |publisher=Indiana University Press |jstor=j.ctt16gzp2k |isbn=978-0-253-35687-1  |access-date=9 August 2024 |archive-date=7 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807154525/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzp2k |url-status=live }}</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2024}}<ref name="auto1" />