Há '' `` ChÃ Minh is often called `` the Vietnamese George Washington '' by Communist Vietnamese , because he spent much of his life trying to get the French , who controlled Vietnam , to leave . In contrast , some Vietnamese who lived through the war accuse Há '' `` ChÃ Minh of bringing chaos to the country and causing the deaths of millions of Vietnamese on both sides , both soldiers and civilians . Some Vietnamese people living outside of Vietnam ( commonly known as Overseas Vietnamese , who fled communist rule after 1975 from the former Republic of Vietnam ) , and some political dissidents have hostile opinions of Há '' `` ChÃ Minh .