Laos and Cambodia as Vietnamese SSRs?

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So if I'm not mistaken, just as 1979 wrapped up, Vietnam had military control over Laos (as a consequence of the Vietnam War) as well as Cambodia (as a consequence of the war against Pol Pot).

That being said, what are your thoughts on Vietnam deciding to incorporate the new nations as annexed SSRs instead of setting up puppet governments like they did IOTL.

Could it have been feasible?
 
To be truly analogous to the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos would all have to be part of a Union of Indochinese Socialist Republics. And indeed from 1930 to 1945 there was an Indochinese Communist Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochinese_Communist_Party But the time for that was long past by the 1970's. As it was, Vietnam was much criticized for her invasion of Cambodia, despite the horrors of Pol Pot's rule. To actually incorporate it into Vietnam (or even "Indochina") would have been almost universally condemned (not least by Cambodians, even those glad to be rid of Pol Pot). Similarly, why upset the leaders of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, who were very pro-Vietnamese but still wanted at least the trappings of an independent country?
 
The Vietnamese only reluctantly invaded Cambodia in the first place. Only after being attacked repeatedly by the Khmer Rouge did they have no choice but to act. The idea of annexing a hostile territory would be insane for a nation like Vietnam, which was itself devastated by and only just recovering from three decades of war against Japanese, French, and American imperialism.

Not to mention that such a move would play right into the hands of the Khmer Rouge, who maintained a popular insurgency in Western Cambodia up until the 90s IOTL. While the average Cambodia peasant probably didn't give a rip, the intelligentsia (many of whom were ex-Khmer Rouge themselves) by this point were ardent Khmer nationalists. Independence, even nominal independence, was necessary.
 
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