Ho Chi Minh: would be deemed among history's maddest if...

Ho Chi Minh would be deemed among history's maddest if he had gotten a over a million Vietnamese soldiers and over two million Vietnamese civilians from both sides killed to kick out the French colonialists -- which at least would have been a laudable goal. But to bring about the deaths of three million with another three million permanently maimed and another three million wounded but recovered (normal distribution of combat statistics) our of a population of thirty-five million just to force his version of good government on the other half of the country...
...a police state in which he can force millions to die and in which school children are indoctrinated to inform on their parents if they hear them criticize the state plus a loony economic system that leaves everybody poor...
...even if the South Vietnamese for some reason wanted to live that way...
...they held out a lot longer than the French did and fled in droves (almost a million ended up in the USA) when Ho won...

If Gandhi had gotten almost half the population of India killed, permanently maimed or wounded kicking out the British...

South Vietnamese peasants had no reason to revolt. Why; to give their (70 percent) personally owned land over to government communes (it had been close to 100 percent in the north)? If commune-ization did not happen to South Vietnamese farm land, what was the difference that communism was theoretically supposed to worth leaving millions dead? The people of North Vietnam would never have voted to kill off a million of their military age males (one million North Vietnamese soldiers died fighting in the south) to spread their political system. By the time communism showed its true face in the north folks there may have wished they could have remained under French colonialism instead.