What were the mistakes of Ho Chi Minh?

Let start from the infamous land reform: By all mean, redistribute the land. That is what the party promised the people in exchange of their support, and actually a very normal thing in Vietnam history. read more

Ho Chi Minh, far from being the commanding leader of North Vietnam, was simply its most prominent. He never held total power nor did he influence policy dramatically after 1958 but he held considerable power before his mistakes. read more

Ho Chi Minh was born Nguyen Sinh Cung on May 19, 1890, in a village in central Vietnam (then part of French Indochina). In 1911, he found work as a cook on a French steamer and spent the next several years at sea, traveling to Africa, the United States and Britain, among other locations. read more

CPUSA and its mouthpieces regularly compared Ho Chi Minh to the American Founding Fathers, as if he were fighting not for the ideas of the Bolshevik Revolution but the American Revolution. I gave several examples, including Dr. Benjamin Spock, a leftist dupe extraordinaire. read more