Tuấn Cao-Đắc - Danlambao - Abstract: Hồ Chí Minh, leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party, was known for his ability to act and fraudulent tricks. Many Western scholars have written about this since more than 40 years ago. Jean Lacouture described Hồ as a self stage manager and a play actor. Mieczyslaw Maneli considered Hồ’s act of shedding tears a cheap trick. A representative performance is Hồ’s dealing in the land reform campaign in the 1950s. Hồ accused Madame Năm Cát Hanh Long of murder in a newspaper article written under a pen name, but later acted as if he had known nothing about her when he learned of her death by execution. In 1956, Hồ publicly admitted mistakes in the land reform. William Duiker believed that this admission was prompted by instructions to practice self-criticism from Krushchev in Krushchev’s speech denouncing Stalin. In delivering his speech, Hồ had a chance to show off his acting skill by shedding crocodile tears.
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