
When Tyrants Rule The World – Episode 4: Communism And The Cold War
Ho Chi Minh led the Vietnamese nationalist movement for more than three decades, fighting first against the Japanese, then the French colonial power and then the US-backed South Vietnamese. He was President of North Vietnam from 1954 until his death. Mao Zedong was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led his country’s communist revolution. Mao's "Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural Revolution were ill-conceived and had disastrous consequences, but many of his goals, including stressing China's self-reliance, were generally laudable.