It's still disingenuous because they are being very selective with their facts. They are trying to imply that the People's Republic was somehow: 1) able to maintain control over the entire country in terms of security, food, governance, 2) actually had broad based support beyond small groups and that support was durable, 3) wasn't just a communist cover (as it was in Eastern Europe).

It's a nice "what if" story, but pretending a fully functional democratic government was overthrown by US and Russia for no reason is disingenuous.