I will grant that in 1919, the World Communist movement was just starting to get organized, the Soviet Union was still knee-deep in Civil War, and certainly the fight against colonialism back then, was one of the things that gave Communism some traction. But by the end of WWII, Ho was firmly in the Soviet Camp, and would have established a Communist dictatorship, with or without the help of the US.
“But by the end of WWII, Ho was firmly in the Soviet Camp, and would have established a Communist dictatorship, with or without the help of the US.”
I’m not disputing that Ho was an evil man probably very early in his life; he certainly was able to use the West’s preaching against it, though.