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MoJo wrote:Contrary to most current and contemporary thinking, Ho Chi Minh wanted a democracy for Vietnam. If the US and other western powers would have backed Ho instead of the French at the end of WWII things could have been different. Unfortunately, the USSR and Red China moved in, and Ho adopted Communism.

Have to disagree Mojo.

Ho adopted Communism in 1920, long before WWII, when he was a founding member of the French Communist Party. In 1924, in Moscow, he studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. He then went to China but left after the anti-communist gov't of Chiang Kai-shek came to power. He remained in Thailand, staying in the Thai village of Nachok, until late 1929 when he moved on to India, then Shanghai. In early 1930, in Hong Kong, Nguyễn Ái Quốc (Ho Chi Minh) chaired a meeting with representatives from two Vietnamese communist parties in order to merge them into a unified organization, Communist Party of Vietnam.

While he did have some communication with the U.S., he was a Communist through and through, long before WWII and the Russians and Chinese moving in to fill any vacuum created by lack of U.S. support.

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