Posted on 12/27/2024 2:31:51 PM PST by DallasBiff
Ho Chi Minh (born May 19, 1890, Hoang Tru, Vietnam, French Indochina—died September 2, 1969, Hanoi, North Vietnam) was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party (1930) and its successor, the Viet-Minh (1941), and president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). As the leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement for nearly three decades, Ho was one of the prime movers of the post-World War II anti-colonial movement in Asia and one of the most influential communist leaders of the 20th century
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Asked him about Ho Chi Minh and he said, Ho's soldiers would cut the throats of the people.
I have mixed feelings about the Vietnam war, but God bless the veterans who served.
Jane Fonda’s buddy
Yeah the war suck. Alliances come and go. Great folks, the ones I’ve known.
Kamala was Ho She Been.
Still dead.
It is rumored that he worked for Escofier. Vietnamese bread is great!
My Dad argued that the Vietminise hate China, and could have been an ally against them.
Both go on today as examples of the offensive epithet “ho”.
Christmas joke.🎅🎄
Santa got in trouble. He was seated and watched three young women go by and happened to say “Ho, ho, ho.”
Thanks to the French. Almost everything we know as Vietnamese food is French derived or inspired.
I saw his body in the mausoleum in Hanoi. Was kind of weird looking at a preserved body that was dead for over 50 years.
Kind of like taxidermy. 😁
I was just talking about Ho with a retired Marine yesterday, we were discussing the Tet Offensive and how rather than end the war because of the crushing defeat of the VC, cooler heads in North Vietnam called for watching to see how the media played it to the American public.
The Vietnamese very much hate China. For several reasons.
That’s why they turned to Russia for help to fight us.
China supported Pol Pot in Cambodia.
China and Vietnam fought a short war in 1979.
China claimed much of Vietnam’s waters in their land grabs. Most of the Gulf of Tonkin.
When I spent several weeks there in 2020 they openly stated their hatred for China. They allow Chinese tourists, but no residents. They explained that they would not accept China’s Belt and Road projects.
Been or IS? Alias Eye Cue Lo.
They took over the city of Hue’ and killed thousands in 1968 Tet Offensive.
They are. I’m from an army town (Leesville, LA.) with lots of old soldiers, many of which have Vietnamese wives, some of whome have beautiful daughters, a couple of which I’ve dated. They’re all good people, in my experience
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Typing is not my strong suit
Ho was once a pastry chef at the Omni Parker House in Boston. Once I noticed they put "Ho Chi Minh's Egg Rolls" on their bar menu on the second floor!
Ho requested self-determination be given to the Annamites (S. Vietnamese) as it was being advocated for other nations post WW2.
To give them this would have meant forcing the French to leave.
We had the chips to do that at that time; we should have done so, providing Viet Nam would become a democratic protectorate of the US for a length of time.
That would have been a super-smart move, so naturally it was not even considered, and our people in State refused Ho's numerous requests to meet with TPTB. At some point Ho approached Mao, and the rest is history.
If we had given Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh in 1945, he would have set up a Communist state, like the one he set up later in North Vietnam—and it would most likely have included all of Indochina.
Yeah. People forget who Ho really was and what his place in history was. He was in France training as a sous chef, born name Nguyễn Sinh Cung - and was a truly seminal Communist from before the Russian Bolsheviks had adopted that name formally in 1917. He was one of the founders of the Communist party in France before he founded one in Vietnam. This guy went way, way back. As to the persistent insistence on the part of the less informed, no, Ho was not going to be “co-opted” by the CIA or State Department or anyone else. He was what he was.
They won. We lost. That sucks.
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