Essay Prompt
Ho Chi Minh
Many credit Ho Chi Minh for his significant role in the independence movement and rise to power as the first president of North Vietnam. He saw people within Vietnamese society as one that is undergoing a transition towards French influence, from which he sought to liberate them. Ho became a kitchen boy by educating himself, which became the key for him to travel around the world. His travels in Europe and the United States (US) greatly influenced his political thinking, having acquired several books that mostly leaned towards Communist ideologies. Books by Karl Marx and Leo Tolstoy, ...