Please write about Ho Chi Minh!

[Hopes_Guevara]

Dear Comrades,

This thread is for comrades who admire Ho Chi Minh.

Uncle Ho's 117th birthday is coming up. Now, I am joining a group consisting of Vietnamese communists. We are preparing to set up a blog of Ho Chi Minh in memory of him. Our intention is to present foreigners' viewpoints about him, especially youths. Thus, I will appreciate if you could write an article which shows your points and feelings about Ho Chi Minh and send it to me. It'd better that you should tell about the process on that you have learnt about Ho Chi Minh. You know, we are trying to dispose devastingly distorting arguments against Ho Chi Minh's life and career. Your article will be posted on our blog and translated into Vietnamese. If you want I will send the blog's link to you.

Thank you very much!

[Hopes_Guevara]

No one feel interested in this subject? *sigh*

[fashbash]

Aw comrade, I'm interested, if only briefly. Ho Chi Min is 117? Is he senile, or is he still with it?

Here's my article for the auld bugger, as a foriegn yoof:

Ho Chi Minh was great man. I particularly admired his work alongside Spike Milligan in hit fifties radio-comedy, The Goons, where he shortened his name to 'Min', or sometimes more affectionately: 'Minnie'. Below is my favourite quote from 'The Goons,' featuring the great Ho Chi Minh:


Minnie: Oh, Henry, after all these years, our own piano!
Henry: Yes, all our own. At last, we can take a bath.

I also admired Ho's later acting work, as B.A Baracus in cult TV show, The A-Team. His transition from radio to television gave him reign to show off his impressive muscles, and he went on to coin a catchphrase that would be repeated by little boys for generations to come: 'I ain't gettin' on no helicopter, fool!'.

And now at 117 years old, Ho Chi Minh, the worlds oldest man, I, a foriegn youth, salute you, and remember what you used to say when you could still feed yourself, 'Don't mess with Ho-Chi fool!'

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Comrade, have you ever read the book "Ho Chi Minh: A Life?"

[fashbash]

no actually I made it all up. Do you think it matters? :huh:

[bolshevik butcher]

http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/bac...2/MosTrial.html (http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/backiss/Vol3/No2/MosTrial.html)

Good article that.

[The Grey Blur]

Murdered thousands of Vietnamese Trotskyists, but I appreciate his anti-Imperialist efforts in Vietnam.

[bolshevik butcher]

We have to admire and recognise the Vietnamese national liberation movement and the amount that they suffered but not necesserally Ho Chi Minh as an individual. As shown his direction playerd a violent role in supressing the most militant elements in the Vietnemese working class.