Ho Chi Minh Quotes
I’d rather eat French shit for two years than Chinese shit forever.
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym. In 1945 at the end of World War II, the Chinese under Chiang Kai-shek invaded Vietnam instead of attacking the Japanese. 200,000 Chinese troops occupied Vietnam when the war ended. Ho Chi Min and other Vietnamese nationalists diplomatically worked to restore the order of things before the war and have the French return to Vietnam. Many were very critical of Ho for enabling the French Colonials to return with 15,000 troops, as they replaced the Chinese forces. After he made this statement, the Vietnamese then ousted the French and gained their independence but are continuously wary of China, their neighbor to the North and traditional enemy. To this day, Chinese maps refer to Vietnam as “The South-East China Province.”
Ho Chi Minh, 1890-1969, North Vietnamese Revolutionary Leader, Explanation to Vietnamese nationalist political critics, 1945
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This speech to over 100,000 people galvanized the Indian nationalists They had been asking the British to change the constitution to give India more independence. Churchill was opposed to any policy that would diminish the British Empire, but needed the Indians as men of India served in the British Army in every major theater of WWII. So instead of saying "No" Churchill held out the possibility but at a later time. He argued that it was inopportune to alter the Constitution in the midst of a world war.
Shortly after he refused to join, his brother who had joined the Resistance had been captured, tortured and murdered by the Germans. He then joined the active resistance even though the Americans had not yet arrived. He realized that resistance was just an annoyance to the Germans, and the time the Resistance could really make a difference was after the Americans and British had landed in France.
Nostradamus made thousands of prophecies most of which seem not to have occurred as he predicted. However there were a few that some people believe predicted later events. In this case some think that he predicted the colonization and independence of America.
A few weeks after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan invaded the Philippines and occupied the country. They thought that because of the original American occupation and some American war crimes in the American Philippines War, the people would welcome Japan, thinking that Japan had freed them from the United States domination. However, by that time, most of the Filipinos had become pro American and despite many posters like this one, the Japanese were hated by almost all of the Filipinos for their atrocities were much worse than the worst of the American army at the turn of the century. The American outrages were committed by a minority of the soldiers and officers while the Japanese atrocities were universal and institutional.
The Japanese Government was in the control of ardent militarists intent on expanding the Japanese empire. They invaded Manchuria and had designs on China. The League of Nations was very weak, in large part because the United States had not joined when the Senate refused to ratify the treaty. So peace or war In Asia depended on the fascist, military clique that ruled Japan.
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym. At the Versailles WWI Peace Conference a young, 29 year old, Ho Chi Minh showed up and tried to present his petition for Vietnamese independence to Woodrow Wilson and the other non-French leaders. (Indochina was then a French colony.) Little attention was paid to him and his petition. Even though Wilson was for national self determination, all the other major WWI Allies had overseas colonial empires. After suffering losses from German aggression they were interested in getting those back plus reparations—not ceding away any of their then existing territory. They paid little attention to Wilson on the self determination issue and the Senate would not support Wilson on the League of Nations which then might have pressed for self determination. Ho was snubbed. It was a costly, unjust snub for the world.
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The Russians, who had invaded Afghanistan successfully, then proceeded to lose Afghanistan.
Despite the fact that there were no formal political polls at the time, public opinion was very influential in curtailing what might be a tendency to use of the American military. Starting with the Cold War later, Presidents tended to use American military force regardless of public opinion or would exaggerate or lie (Vietnam and Iraq wars for example) to temporally gain some public support.
His prediction was correct. However, most of the direct force for withdrawal came from the people of America and not the Vietnamese.
The French leader was one of the first to warn against the Fascism that Mussolini brought to Italy. Although most of the French leadership was opposed to Fascism when it came to fighting Fascism, the French later proved feeble, and many became collaborators and adopted the Nazi puppet state of Vichy France.
Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, Bác Hồ, or simply Bác ('Uncle', pronounced [ʔɓaːk̚˦˥]), was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and President from 1945 until his death in 1969. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, he served as Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam.
