Opinion of Ho Chi Minh

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Certainly better than any of the thugs in the South.

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The division of Vietnam (and forcing Vietnam to stay divided) was entirely the fault of France, then the United States.

George Orwell was a socialist who served in a Trotskyist brigade in the Spanish Civil War (which is where he started hating Stalinism), but as far as I know he did not consider himself a communist at any point. Though given the rogues gallery of reactionaries, royals, plutocrats, and petty dictators wormyguy probably loves (he seems to have gone full-throttle on the "anti-democratic libertarian" thing), I shouldn't take his opinion too seriously.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

For example, the initial subject of this thread was, in fact, a "nationalist."

He was both, but his nationalism was the greater priority.