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Show r Page 8 The UTAH Independent June 7, 1973 Com Two weeks ago last Sunday in Communist Party the Salt Lake Tribune there was mittee created the Vietminh a news release to the effect that front, Ho was acting, according if the United States would have to the Nhan Dan. "on behalf of given aid to Ho Chi Minh (Viet-name- the Communist International." se for "He who of course, enlightens) then, everything would have been roses; no war, no deaths, no economic bottom-les- s pit. Those who persist in being deluded will snatch this up with considerable historical reality to the contrary. For Ho Chi Minh was a Communist first, last and always, and the guise of was simply a "nationalism convenient subterfuge. Unfortunately, a significant number of citizens (and an even lare number of college professors) adhere to the above theory that Uncle Ho was some thing of a "George Washington" to Vietnam. That is, that he was a principled nationalist who was forced into the Communist in the 1940's. because the United States wouldn't support him and h his resistance movement. This completely ignores the fact - openly acknowledged in Communist North Vietnamese accounts of his life - that Ho did not set foot inside Vietnam from 1911 until late 1940, and that during that time President Ho became one of the founders of the French Communist Party, that shortly thereafter Ho went to Moscow where he worked in the Communist International, and that in anti-Frenc- mid-192- as the pfficial 4, representative of the French Communist Party, President Ho attended the Fifth Congress of the Communist International (Comintern). Furthermore, Ho is quoted by the official Party daily in North Vietnam, Nhan Dan, as having told the Fifth Congress of the Comintern: In all of the French colonies. ..The Communist International must help (the must peasants). ..reorganize, supply leadership cadres to them and must lead them to revolution and liberation. In other words, the revolution does not have to be indigenous in origin. It can have leadership cadres imported to help the revolution or even spark it. Even in May of 1941, when under Hos direction the Eighth Conference of the Indochinese the time Ho Chi Minh was 50 years old, he had spent almost his entire adult life outside of Vietnam as a paid agent of the Comintern. Vu Van Thai, Vietnamese Ambassador to the By United States from strengthen the national union and not to liquidate its non-Com-mun- ist fellow travelers. What he's saying is that if Ho were reallyy a nationalist, or even a Nationalist first and then a Communist, his first goal would be independence - and then a Communistresolution of differences among other Nationalists. Mr. Thai continues: This interregnum was destroyed the conveniently used to liquidate the Dai Viet and Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang (Nationalist parties) There was bloodshed in the streets; the Communists com- pletely organization and the machinery of the Vietnam Quoc Dan Dand and the Dai Viet... the of ...Persecution nationalist groups continued. One of the tactics was simple lassassination. by iquidation Another tactic, for instance, was to send nationalists as vanguard troops to be killed by the French. This was the case of the yo uth groups, who were left to defend Hanoi as hostilities broke out, while all Communist troops withdrew from Hanoi. Two thousand young people, age fifteen to twenty, managed alone to defend Hanoi for two months. The Communists were ready to fight to the last Nationalist in the city!" Good Old Uncle Ho. The fact that the Communists purposefully signed the 6 March 1 946 accords with the French in order to buy time to attack their Nationalist rivals (or "reactionaries", in the vernacular) is admitted by Party First Secretary LDuan: SAM ANDY P.O. Box 11831 Salt Lake City, Utah self-sufficien- cy - 1- L national the liberation movement in other colonies." From Le"Duan once again: MONEY The achievements recorded by the Vietnamese revolution By over the past forty years are associated with closedly c CREATORS GERTRUDE M. 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Ho was revolution. ..and with the cope with not one but several In such a time. enemies at democratic and peace unconditionally loyal to Stalin h as our apcircumstances movement sweeping the world. and Stalin knew it or Ho would Party have been eliminated. plied in a creative manner this of shrewd recommendation Ho Chi Minh, states, in the last Incidentally, it was Stalin who Lenin: The more powerful line of his Last Will and Tesin 1913, under the direct enemy can be vanquished only tament, after expressing the of Lenin drafted the desire of creating a unified Viet- inspiration by taking advantage of any opcelebrated article on portunity of winning a mass ally, nam, "Thus we will make a nationalities which stipulated, even though this all is temworthy contribution to World "The Marxist principle of the And that is Revolution." porary, vacillating, unstable, and subordinate unreliable and conditional.' dedication to world revolution. secondary nature of the National QuesWe would at one time reach a Bernard Fall, in an Esquire tion ." . This meant, as Lenin temporary compromise with the article in 1967, indicated of Ho that the underlying aim French in order to wipe out the that "His hatred of the French put it, was to let the worldwide Yet reactionaries, thus gaining time seemed unquenchable." forces and it was Ho Chi Minh who yielded revolutionary strategy profit to consolidate from the tactical contribution this "unquenchable hatred" on prepare for a nationwide resisI think it's worth orders of the Comintern and which could in certain tance..." circumstances and certain areas noting "in the words of Robert F. gave up advocacy of outright (Vietnam, for example) be Turner, a specialist in Vieindependence in a goal he was furnished for by struggles tnamese studies" that while supposedly working towards, in National Liberation. Communist Theoreticieans frefavor of a policy of cooperation Finally, Party First Secreretary quently stress the desirability of with the French Colonial Regime in a As Fall tells it, "He (Ho) had to Le Duan in his funeral creation and forswear publicly all he had at Ho's memorial services, illusrevolutionary movement trated rather clearly exactly perhaps the impossibility of stood for, had to cooperate with Ho. Le Duan success by relying entirely on the French, the people he hated what motivated StdtGS' external assistance," that North most, and had to sell out the President Ho Chi Minh is the Vietnamese Party First Trotskyist allies who had helped purest symbol of authentic Secretary Le Duan clarified the the Communists from time to patriotism linked closely with official Communist position in time in beating French sponproletarian internationalism. His The Vietnamese Revolution: in for elections sored candidates heart and mind were continually If one. . . leans wholly on Cochin China." at the service of the Vietnamese be this even aid behavior This not was unusual though foreign people and at the service of the aid from socialist countries to Ho, who had attended the working class and the oppressed which persist in revolution no Institute for National and peoples of the world. Faithful Colonial Questions in Moscow dicipline of Karl Marx and Lenin, victory can be won. . . they repeatedly emphasize that the and then the "Graduate School" he was not only a great patriot battle for national liberation (in for Senior Communist leaders, but also an experienced comSouth Vietnam). . . can only end the Lenin School. Bernard batant in the international Comif it becomes part in total victory Fall states: "Moscow, 1935:38, munist Movement and the of world the and parcel also provided an education of National Liberation Movement revolution. another sort: The Stalin purges. of the- twentieth Century. It would be interesting to know President Ho Chi Minh constanThat means an individual revolution is important only in what Ho's feelings were as he tly recommended that we... the context of the world saw some of his best friends ac- fulfill our sacred duties to world revolution. cused, convicted, and executed revolution." Le text in same the by for crimes that they patently had Also, In conclusion, Ho Chi Minh is Duan, Ho Chi Minh places What - Was a founder of the not committed. Nationalism in its proper remarkable is that Ho, as a well French Communist Party, had perspective in relation to Comknown member of the Continued on Page 13 "The Vietnamese munism, revolution is a part of the world i revolution. ..it followed the path of the Communist International, ELEVENTH PRINTING i to i and it was intimately related "The revolution in our country or 0 484-568- 8 M MONEY CREATORS gives you clear and. forthright answers to such questions as: Where does money come from? Where does it go? How can it disappear? What private individuals now create money? What is money? Is money wealth? Is all money fiat money? Prepare Now. Remember the grasshopper and the ant. Send today for information and order blanks. ' iTOTSanMHr Do banks lend real money? 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