Ep 74: Mark Moyar on Vietnam (New Makers of Modern Strategy #4)
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The Left's Misunderstanding of the Communists
There's this idea, and people often cite in 1945 when Ho Chi Minh takes power in Hanoi, he cites the Declaration of Independence. He was very much a die-hard Marxist Leninist from the early 1920s. When he gains political power, he imposes Marxist-Leninist political system. A related myth to this is thatHo Chi Minh was anti-Chinese,. And we didn't understand this again because we were foolishly anti-communist.
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