Is Ho Chi Minh a Nationalist or a Communist?

Question

He is a communist. But my history teacher keeps emphasising that he's a nationalist. Which is strange. I think he secretly met up with communist countries like Russia and China, and the Communist Party of France, and planned on kicking out the imperialists in Vietnam...and then taking over with the communist regime...and today is...the result.

And as for the Americans coming in...and dropping napalm...and agent orange, sickening. Don't Head of States ever contemplate ahimsa...

Answer 1

Minh actually started out as a Nationalist.....he wanted to free his country of French inperialism.

Russia helped him, so he eventually became a communist.

Answer 2

Ho Chi Minh was actually very pro American. As a matter of fact, he worked in NYC as a baker. He also tried to solicit help from the Americans to boot out the French, but we ignored him, equating him to some silly naive university student. Therefore, he went to other sources for help and we are upset at him for that. Today, their economy is second to China as far as percentage growth. (Theirs is at around 8% and ours is at an anemic 2.5%.) All HCM wanted was Vietnam for the Vietnamese. We never understood that however. Instead, we supported corrupt and incompetent South Vietnamese leaders. He was a nationalist that just happened to solicit help from the communists.

Answer 3

I shan't give you information overload.

Jules - he's dead but he remains my culture hero up there with Che Guevara. Both were primarily nationalist.

Neither was committed to the Personalty Cults of perverted Marxism in the USSR or China. Each fought for his country against incredible odds, In fact Che probably had it easier (Ho had to deal with the French Foreign Legion:no mean feat!).

Vietnam suffered under the yoke of French the Japanese Imperialism. Ho was fortunate to be one of the extremely few Vietnamese to get a university education. He and his (far more "gentle communists than the tyrants of the USSR and China) comrades in Paris decided that his homeland must be liberated.

After WWII the "Allies" gave Vietnam back to the French. The French were losing it to the Vietminh (Ho and his comrades) so America (at the UN) forced a division of the country to North and South. The ruler of the South, Bo Dai, was totally corrupt. The people rose up against him. The Americans progressively aided him to kill the so called "Viet Cong" rebels.

There was no secret that he sought help from the USSR and China. He had to make his country Communist on the Soviet model to get it. Ho aided the Viet Cong. More American bombs were dropped on North Vietnam than in WWII.

After a long war of attrition and many coups in South Vietnam
the Americans had an "exit policy" they left their "puppet" regime (i e one they totally controlled) to die.

Ho won but his nation will take a millennium to recover. The government now is quite progressive and caring. Individual American War Vets have worked with the government to pay back for what America has done.

I buy Vietnamese products to pay back in some small way for what our nations have done to the Vietnamese people.

Answer 4

specific, Ho Chi Minh replaced into the two a nationalist and a communist. i'm questioning rationally as quickly as I say at that element, 1945, neither Ho Chi Minh nor the Viet Minh have been even able to any expansionism. Ho took the help from the Soviets and the chinese language basically after being constantly ignored by using the yank Presidents Wilson and Truman. Even up until 1959, the DRV replaced into in no place to boost previous its on the spot territory. the secure practices of South East Asia, u . s . of america, and the Western international have been by no potential threatened by using the Viet Minh's conflict for independence and unification. i'm curious as to which voters you consult with, simply by fact back in 1955 maximum human beings could desire to not even inform you what French Indochina replaced into or the place it replaced into. the yank public did not misunderstand something - it replaced into lie to. lie to by using Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - all of them lied to the yank public. As for the turn around in foreign places coverage from the Atlantic shape to the Truman Doctrine - no person else understood the hypocrisy greater advantageous than Ho Chi Minh himself! As you will discover by using the previous answer (and any of the solutions that stick to), crimson Scare hysteria is alive and properly and flourishes interior the background type each and every time questions approximately: Marx, the Russian Revolution, Lenin, Stalin, international conflict II, Cuba, Fidel, Che, the chilly conflict, Afghanistan, and Vietnam seem. in case you prefer "rock not undemanding evidence" - seem no greater advantageous than the 2nd consultation on the Hearings earlier the Committee on foreign places family u . s . Senate, ninety-2nd Congress on reasons, Origins, and training of the Vietnam conflict. Contained interior are records bearing directly to the OSS "Deer" venture to the Viet Minh Headquarters, July-Sept. 1945.

Answer 5

From 1919-1923, while living in France, Ho Chi Minh embraced communism.

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Answer 6

HoChi Minh was a nationalist. He fought against the Japanese in WW2, then the French. His aim was for an independent and united Vietnam. He made several attempts to gain American support for a peaceful and democratic unification, all were ignored. When it became obvious that war was imminent he then turned firstly to Russia, then China for the support he needed.

Answer 7

No true nation has ever been "communist." In a true communism, there has to be perfect equality of wealth, social status, etc. To the contrary, almost every nation that has ever called themselves "communist" has always been, in reality, a nationalist/fascist nation, which is the exact opposite of communism.

Therefore, I would label Ho Chi Minh as a nationalist.

Answer 8

Just a quick point. The USA is not an imperialist nation. The USA has been in many wars, and never took the country as a territory. Usually the only land the USA asks for, is enough space to bury their dead who gave their lives, for the freedom of others.

Answer 9

the libs love to say he was a nationalist, but he was heavily in the communist power structure and was beholdent to his communist benafactors in both China and more so Russia. He attended communist political training in Russia also. Was Mao a communist or was he a nationalist too? Ask your teacher that....if he/she says he too was a nationalist then ask tehm why he killed millions of his own people to setup his communist state?

Answer 10

Minh was a homocidal fascist dictator. He was associated with "communists" from russia and china because he wanted seroiusly to have power over all vietnamese, not just the poorer oppressed northerners. Because americas democrats never learned how to win a war we turned soft, we were not allowed to finish the fight in the north, where it originated-- and we lost. Millions were in murdered in cambodia and south vietnam because of democrat cowardice! John kerry-hinze was part of that loss.