What You Should Know about Ho Chi Minh
„The second father of the Vietnamese”
Ho Chi Minh was a genuine leader who believed in the people and respected them. He devoted his entire life to Vietnamese independence and still looks after the people of Vietnam as the “second father” of everyone. Ho Chi Minh did not send his soldiers to death in the South but felt sympathy for their fear and pain.
He was not a heartless, cold communist because he worried about the fate of the future generation. He wore sandals, had a beard, and won the people with his direct style. He loved the children, lived a modest life, and achieved an actual miracle by defeating the French and Americans — this is how the national communist propaganda describes him.
What did Ho Chi Minh stand for?
It has been over 40 years that the Vietnam War ended and 60 years that the Communists came to power in North Vietnam. The widespread image of Ho Chi Minh in the 1960s as a nationalist, a man of peace, an independent communist has still not faded in the West. Yet, as a member of the Comintern (an association of the world’s communist parties founded by Lenin that existed between 1919 and 1943), he wished for a worldwide communist revolution and the fall of Western nations.
