Sunday, 1 April 2012

Political Biography of Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh 1890-1969 - "He Who Enlightens"
Ho with Vo Nguyen Giap [left] whose gift for military strategy enabled Ho to put his ideas into actions. Before gaining fame, Giap had been a history teacher and known to have admired Napoleon Bonarpart of France. In this respect, just like Ho who quoted Wilson's and America's famous declaration of independence, both Giap and Ho would subsequently make the nations of their idols [France and America] pay dearly for their imitations and 'adorations' [School of Vice]

“I don’t know of any other leader of his stature having done this kind of masquerading under different guises, or having had to change his name so many times which makes me wonder whether this was just a necessity, or was it the sense of the drama in the man that prompted him to do this?”

“His achievements required the effort of a man who was part Lenin, part Ghandi, part Confucius, and all Vietnamese


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