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Case Study Week 6: Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was a communist leader, amongst other things,and heplayed a critical role in the fight for Vietnam’s independence in the 1940’s. He was an integral part in the fightwith North and South Vietnam in the 1960s. His life was all about nationalism and communism whichcontributed to the independence of the Vietnamese people. He was a fighter for the peasants and Communism was used as a device which also led to the Vietnam people’s independence. (“Ho Chi Minh,” 1960).Ho chi Minh proclaimed the independence of Vietnam in Hanoi Ba Dinh Square with a speech that had zeal and ambition for nationalism he quoted the laws of the land of the United States of America and France on the need for equality of all men and observation of all free equal rights. Nonetheless, the French imperialists still oppressed their fellow citizens and denied them democratic liberty. According to Minh, regardless of everything the French put their people through, they were always polite and respectful. Indeed, even after the Japanese’s revolt in 1945 the Vietnamese people still helped the French rescue their people from the Japanese and secured their lives and possessions. In spite of all this the French still sold them out to the Japanese in the end. He also helped America during the war by obtaining intelligence on the Japanese and helping American pilots that were shot down. Though later he would show his true reasons for this; to prove his great relations and support with America to Vietnamese nationalists(Berube, 2009).
Ho Chi Minh was a specialist in finding fraud in the West. In this specific speech, he utilizes sections from the French and American Declarations of Independence. He asks why those nations don’t feel that the Vietnamese ought to be given the same individual rights thatare allowed to them. Ho Chi Minh specifies how the pioneers of the Allies met on two unique events amid the war, keeping in mind the end goal to graph the eventual fate of the world. In those gatherings, the issue of self-determination and correspondence was recognized as imperative for future peace on the planet. Ho Chi Minh feels that the Vietnamese ought to be given these same privileges of self-determination and freedom.Moreover, the Vietnamese people were united under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh to defend at all cost any attempt by the French colonialist to reacquire their country. They solemnly declared their country free and independent. They sacrificed their physical and mental strength to safeguard their independence and liberty. The French imperialists oppressed their fellow citizens and denied them democratic liberty.Ho Chi Minh affirms how the French had robbed them of their basic worth of life in their homeland; they had been robbed economically, flattened their public opinion and weakened their race using “opium and alcohol(“Ho Chi Minh,” 1960).”
There were so many injustices done to Vietnam that Ho Minh identified in his speech and the French’s inhumane laws lasted over an 80 year period. However, utilizing subtle techniques for misleading, Ho Chi Minh led the world to believe that he was a loyalist, battling himself for the benefit of the country.
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