Exactly! Here is a telegram Ho Chi Minh sent Truman on the 28th of February, 1948. A piece of history you can touch. (well you would have to break into the archive or work there, but theoretically hehe)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;todaysdocument.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;18436528466&#x2F;dated-february-28th-1946-this-telegram-was-sent" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;todaysdocument.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;18436528466&#x2F;dated-febr...</a><p>Published by the national archives, it shows that Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist and independence seeker first, and Communist second (or even third)<p>In fact, having spent time in Paris, Boston, Moscow and Hongkong working menial jobs and getting in contact with western philosophies in his youth he actually chose to quote<p><pre><code>    &quot;All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness&quot;

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this from the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in his independence speech after French occupation.<p>The course of history might have been slightly different...