Was Ho Chi Minh a Nationalist or PURE COMMUNIST B@STARD?

Question

He freed ALL OF South East Asia from the French.

Ho Chi Minh sent 400,000+++ S. Vietnamese people to die in his "reducation camps"

Ho Chi Minh favored the communism, even when the U.S. helped him in WW2 fighting the Japanese

Answer 1

Pretty much both. We trained him to fight the Japanese and just like the dudes in Afghanistan he learned real well. He then took that knowledge and went to work to create a communist society in a unified Vietnam.

And like Lenin, and Mao before him...he liquidated the wealthy class in South Vietnam.

So Nationalist, Communists...whatever else he may have been...he was a cruel man who had no respect for human life.

Answer 2

Ho Chi Min, Born 19 May 1890 to 2 September 1969 (he died 3 years before the war was over).

He was looking for freedom of Indo-China from French Colonial rule, he worked in London & Paris, France, and was there first exposed to the Communist values.

At the start of WW2 he was used by the Allies to conduct a campaign against the Japanese occupation forces, a promise was made that after the Japanese were defeated the people of Indo-China would be allowed to vote with regards self-rule.

The moment the Japanese surrendered the French moved back in to take control of the country, the French allowed Japanese P.O.W's to be re-armed and police the colony until it was under strong French control.

After the treachery committed by the French Ho Chi Minh took his movement back to the jungles and started to wage war against the French.

The first Americam Military casualties occured in 1945 when an American jeep with two officers were mistakenly ambushed, the Viet Minh thought they were French.

After the Battle of Dien Bien Phu which became a great defeat for the French, the French pulled out of Indo-China.

Then a period of instability came to the area, short of open civil war, in which the Communist were not able to control the country in force. And it became divided.

he US moved in to fill the vacum the French left and to support the non-communists running the country, and as we all know it went down hill from there, escalating into the Viet-Nam War.

more at: http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/ho.html

Answer 3

Well it was the same with Pol Pot, except he killed 2-3 million
people and basically obliterated the country, Same with "the Dear Leader!!!"Kim Jong Ill and his dad the "Great Leader" Kim Ill Sung, they have people dropping dead in the streets from hunger, and killed who knows how many more through concentration camps and executions, but they have enough money for a nuke program, and, oh gee!!! let me see, oh yeah America is the "great beast" or whatever moronic phrase they care to come up with, and they have people singing his praises for the "paradise" that is North Korea. Every day I hear insane crap like this and lots more and all I can do is wonder how the he-l humanity has gotten this far.

Answer 4

He was a nationalist, he only turned to the Soviets when the West turned their backs on him.

Answer 5

But to his credit he voted Republican and sent money abroad to help the Nixon campaign.