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Izzy_Cool

If you want the honest truth, Communism wasn't Ho Chi Minh's first choice. In fact, the FIRST people he turned to for help was the US President at the time.

Ho wanted the US to support his claim that Vietnam should be governed by Vietnamese and not as a French colony.

Unfortunately, the US knew Ho had ties to other communist leaders so they gave him the cold shoulder, especially when faced with the fear that if the US supported Vietnamese efforts to throw off the yoke of colonialism, then India would follow suit and kick out the British.

So, it was a case of "do as we say, not as we do." The US could toss out the British to gain independence, but wouldn't help the Vietnamese to do it.

What most people don't realise is that Ho Chi Minh was a devout nationalist first and foremost. He would have sold his soul to the devil if it meant freedom for his people.

When the US turned their backs to him, he approached both China and Russia (two communist countries) for help and they naturally obliged.

Sad, the Vietnamese war could've been avoided completely if the US had helped Ho instead of ignoring him.

Now, as to communism in Vietnam nowadays, its nowhere as bad as you might think or have been led to believe. Honestly, you'd never know Vietnam is communist except for the red flags everywhere. Completely different than China.

If anything, Vietnam government is more like a benevolent form of Socialism. They lean heavily towards Capitalism in business, but have many social action programs to help the poor.

After 17 years, I am still here...and that says a lot.

Hope this helped you.

MojaveDan

Communism was brought to Vietnam by one man â€“ Ho Chi Minh.

Contrary to what some may want to believe, Ho Chi Minh was very much a communist. Ho had been studying and practicing communism for decades before returning to Vietnam and creating the Viet Minh resistance force during World War II. Ho was a founding member of the French Communist Party in 1921. Ho continued his communist studies in Moscow and China. Ho was employed by the Commintern, which was an international communist organization. Ho had directly asked Stalin and Mao for assistance to defeat the French during the French-Indochina War.

Ho Chi Minh studied Soviet style communism and practiced it as president of North Vietnam. Thousands of Viets were killed by direct order from Ho Chi Minhâ€™s or by his communist officials - just like what Stalin did in the Soviet Union. This happened BEFORE the Vietnam War started.

Ho Chi Minh had also studied American democracy and was a big fan of Thomas Jefferson. There is some truth that Ho may have supported democracy if the U.S. supported his efforts to remove the French from his county. However, things didnâ€™t pan out that way and that information is also irrelevant to the question. The fact is Ho Chi Minh was the one who brought communism to Vietnam

Communism in Vietnam today is much different than it was before 1986. Soviet style communism was eventually proven to be a complete failure throughout the world. In 1986, Vietnam started Doi Moi, which abandoned the central controlled (communist) economy and began introducing a market economy. Over 20 years later, Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and is experiencing the greatest era of prosperity in itâ€™s very long history.

Although Vietnamâ€™s government is still communist controlled, communism in Vietnam today is as different as democracy was to Soviet style communism in Vietnamâ€™s past.

Khanh

In Vietnam war, the north Vietnam was in communism, the south was democratic. Since April30, 1975, after the North won and the U.S. troops withdrawed from the South, the whole country fall to communism, that leaded to the event called "boat people", in which millions of people in the South illegally immigranted to America.

nguyenthanhtungtinbk

Regardless of communism is right or wrong and if we don't talk about politics, Ho Chi Minh is the person I adore because of his kind heart. Almost everything he did in his life is not for himself, but for Vietnamese nation I can tell. After he became the president, he was still living a simple life and always wanted to do good things for Vietnamese people.

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