Indoctrination was carried out at evening meetings held two or three times per week, during which cadres expounded the Viet Minh philosophy and anticolonial propaganda. To support the armed forces, the party collected taxes—cash extortion in the towns and rice levies in the villages—and recruited porters to serve in the clandestine logistical network. When the situation demanded, the cadres reinforced education and propaganda with terror tactics,
