Ho Chi Minh
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Ho Chi Minh (born on May 19, 1890 as Nguyen That Thanh) 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.
- Ho throughout his life was a dedicated Communist internationalist. If anything, he was drawn even more to the Chinese than to the Soviets. [1]
- Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist in the sense that he had a special affection for Vietnamâs people and favored Vietnamese unification and independence, but, from his reading of Leninâs Theses onward, he firmly adhered to the Leninist principle that Communist nations should subordinate their interests to those of the international Communist movement. [2]
External link
- Triumph Foresaken - history book by Mike Moyar which disproves most of the liberal propaganda about Ho.