What made ho chi minh a bad dictator?

Answer 1

Most people agree that Dictatorship is in itself a bad thing, so that merely being a dictator is bad. Dictators impose their will on a country by force, rather than by seeking the consent of the population by running for election. Other than that, Ho Chi Minh insisted upon going to war with the southern half of Vietnam, and while North Vietnam did eventually succeed in conquering the south, it did so only at the cost of a very long, very destructive war in which a great many Vietnamese died. A kinder leader would have worked toward national reunification in a non-violent way.