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john9001 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 03, 2003, 02:07:40 PM »

ho chi min

devious · « **Reply #2 on:** March 03, 2003, 02:31:45 PM »

Think so, too.

(WW2 unrelated ? Or was he taking influence back then ?)

ZePolarBear · « **Reply #3 on:** March 03, 2003, 04:23:21 PM »

I agree. That be Uncle Ho.

ZPB

palef · « **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2003, 07:00:05 PM »

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Originally posted by devious
Think so, too.

(WW2 unrelated ? Or was he taking influence back then ?)

Ho Chi Minh

His real name was: Nguyen Sinh Cung, or it may have been: Nguyen Tat Thanh, or even: Nguyen Van Ba

Re. WWII
"In 1940, Japan's legions swept into Indochina and French officials in Vietnam, loyal to the pro-German Vichy administration in France, collaborated with them. Nationalists in the region greeted the Japanese as liberators, but to Ho they were no better than the French. Slipping across the Chinese frontier into Vietnam--his first return home in three decades--he urged his disciples to fight both the Japanese and the French. There, in a remote camp, he founded the Viet Minh, an acronym for the Vietnam Independence League, from which he derived his nom de guerre, Ho Chi Minh--roughly "Bringer of Light." "
From Time 100 National leaders Site: http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/hochiminh.html

palef

Otto · « **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2003, 10:56:38 AM »

Nice target for the range.... Thanks...

brady · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2003, 12:48:07 PM »

Ho Chi Min, it is:)

From What I have read he was a big pain in the back side to the Japanese, so much so that when the Japanese Surendered in 45, the French , lacking an army in theater, armed some of the Japanese in their prison camps to help fight the Followeres of Ho Chi Min for a while.

hazed- · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2003, 01:17:38 PM »

you sure that isnt the infamous fu man chu ?