I don’t have time to read the article - I will later to refresh my memory. IIRC, Ho Chi Minh studied in the USA. He modeled his constitution of his envisioned united Vietnam after ours. Asked for our help to unite them (kick the French out???).
Or - maybe that was just some propaganda that Fonda and Kerry put out there.
A friend of ours dad was in the ARVN. Taken and held in a camp for 4 years after the war before they even knew he was still alive. Then many years later with just an annual update. I think for a couple of years at the end they actually got to visit him. She, her baby sister, and her mom would beg for food. Her two brothers worked in the fields.
She said she was jealous of her brothers, who each got 2 balls of rice a day to eat (seeing as they worked the fields). She and her mom got one ball each. Her baby sister died of starvation.
Ho Chi Minh joined the Comintern in 1917, and was a founding member of The French Communist Party.