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Ho Chi Minh
[ hoh chee min ]
noun
- 1890?–1969, North Vietnamese political leader: president of North Vietnam 1954–69.
Ho Chi Minh
/ ˈhəʊ ˈtʃiː ˈmɪn /
noun
- Ho Chi Minh18901969MVietnamesePOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: nationalist leader original name Nguyen That Tan. 1890–1969, Vietnamese statesman; president of North Vietnam (1954–69). He headed the Vietminh (1941), which won independence for Vietnam from the French (1954)
Ho Chi Minh
- A Vietnamese revolutionary leader of the twentieth century. Ho Chi Minh led the communists of Vietnam in their efforts to drive out the forces of Japan in the 1940s ( see World War II ), France in the 1950s ( see Dienbienphu ), and the United States in the 1960s ( see Vietnam War ). He died in 1969.
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Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi was a communist dictator, for sure, but had a genuine following.
But, he continued, they had read Mao, and Ho Chi Minh, and Giap, and Che.
In the 1960s, many in the New Left excused Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh because they battled American hegemony.
Five screens document the five staffers involved in the sober discussions, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City itself.
In addition to Bangkok and the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, I went to Ho Chi Minh City, Danang, Na Trang, and Haiphong.
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