I must be in a communist country
Having just returned from seeing Ho Chi Minh, in the flesh literally, I thought I’d share with you this incredible piece of propaganda:
The Mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh is an architectural work of great political and ideological significance, expressing the profound feelings of the entire Vietnamese people towards the Late President who is endearingly called Uncle Ho. In this place the Vietnamese, generation after generation, have arrived to pay homage and show gratitude to President Ho Chi Minh and express thier determination to follow the revolutionary path He had charted to build a peaceful, united, democratic and prosperous Vietnam.
It’s written in the best English I’ve seen in Vietnam.
While we’re on ‘Uncle Ho’, was he a benevolent dictator? To my knowledge (and this is based largely on what I’m learning in Vietnam), there were no Railway Purges, Gulags, Cultural Revolutions or other acts of genocide and the likes. There was some land distribution that pissed a couple of people off but otherwise it was just everyone else committing atrocities on the Vietnamese (the Chinese over thousands of years and more recently the Cambodians and Americans).
Can anyone tell me of human rights violations committed by Ho? He even seemed quite tolerant of religion.