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Published: 06.07.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Ho Chi Minh', 1.
  • Essays 'Ho Chi Minh', 2.
Extract

Ho Chi Minh once said:
"You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." as Ho's brilliant commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap, stated in Hanoi in 1990, his principal concern had been victory. When I asked him how long he would have resisted the U.S. onslaught, he thundered, "Twenty years, maybe 100 years -- as long as it took to win, regardless of cost." The human toll was horrendous. An estimated 3 million North and South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians died.
During Ho's childhood he was greatly influenced by his surroundin…

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