Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh (born on May 19, 1890 as Nguyen Tat Thanh, also known as Nguyen Van Ba, Nguyen Ai Quoc, sometimes used other aliases) was a Vietnamese revolutionary who imposed one-party rule on Vietnam, dashing any hopes of it becoming a democratic country. He was Prime Minister of the so-called Democratic Republic of Vietnam (actually a totalitarian Communist state) from 1945 to 1955. He assumed the office of President in 1955 and remained there until his death on September 2, 1969. After the civil war ended in 1975, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. The name Ho Chi Minh means "The One Who Brings Light".

Ho Chi Minh
Personal life
Date and place of birth	19 May 1890, Nghe An Province, French Indochina
Parents	NguyỠn Sinh Sắc (father)
Claimed religion	Atheist
Education	Educated in France
Spouse	Tăng Tuyết Minh
Children	None
Date & Place of Death	3 September 1969 (aged 79)
Manner of Death	Heart failure
Place of burial	Buried in Hanoi with honors
Dictatorial career
Country	Vietnam
Military service	Led military as Commander in Chief during wars with France and USA
Highest rank attained	N/A
Political beliefs	Communist
Political party	Vietnam Workers Party
Date of dictatorship	Served as President from 2 September 1945 – 3 September 1969
Wars started	Invasions of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia; Vietnam War
Number of deaths attributed	1,500,000 (total number of Vietnamese killed by Communist democide in the north and south from 1945 to 1990, not counting war casualties); Engineered 1956-59 "land reform" bloodbath, during which 100,000 to 300,000 were killed. North Vietnam altogether killed upwards of 500,000 of its citizens (some say over 1 million); the Communists executed 200,000 South Vietnamese, killed 155,000 who tried to escape in cold blood, drowned 200-400,000, and killed another 200,000 in concentration camps after the war, along with potentially tens of thousands of others through different means. From 1945-56, when he had full control, North Vietnam killed between 250,000 and 900,000 people (Rummel). About 1,200,000 Vietnamese were killed on both sides during the war, along with 300,000 Cambodians and Laotians.

Life and Career

Nguyen Tat Thanh left Vietnam at the age of 20. He traveled to London, New York and Paris and took different jobs (among others: worked as a ship steward, gardener, cook in a restaurant). While working on a ship he used name Nguyen Van Ba, then he returned to his original name.

In 1919 he joined the French Socialist Party and in 1920, after the party fell apart, he become a member of the French Communist Party. He became an expert in colonialism issues. In 1922 he was delegated to Moscow, where he studied the doctrine and techniques of communism. In 1925 he was sent to China, officially as a staff member of the Soviet Consulate in Kanton, in fact as a Comintern agent. Then he became the Director of the Comintern Office in Shanghai. Since then, until the start of the Second World War he traveled a lot over Asia.

• Ho throughout his life was a dedicated Communist internationalist. If anything, he was drawn even more to the Chinese than to the Soviets.
• Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist in the sense that he had a special affection for Vietnam’s people and favored Vietnamese unification and independence, but, from his reading of Lenin’s Theses onward, he firmly adhered to the Leninist principle that Communist nations should subordinate their interests to those of the international Communist movement.

External links

• Triumph Foresaken - history book by Mike Moyar which disproves most of the liberal propaganda about Ho.
• [1]- VietNam Quoc Dan Dang (Vietnamese National Party) website
• [2]-The Blood-Red Hands of Ho Chi Minh
• [3]-Statistics Of Vietnamese Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources
• [4] "More than 172,000 people died during the North Vietnam land reform campaign after being classified as landowners and wealthy farmers, official records of the time show. But official figures leave out summary executions of those accused of membership of the National People’s Party, however. Unofficial estimates of those killed by Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam Labor Party, which later become the Vietnamese Communist Party, range from 200,000 to 900,000. ...“The land reform campaign was a crime of genocide like that of Pol Pot,” Hao said."