Neither. I've read about Ho Chi Minh rather extensively. His political ideology was based around self-determination for Vietnam, and he turned to the Soviet Union for support because the United States would not support him. Apparently, they knew very little about him and did not trust him. As for his political goals, those were fair enough, and he led Vietnam through the most difficult time in Vietnam's history.
One book stated, however, that Ho Chi Minh the person was not the state he led. While Ho Chi Minh was known to be very pragmatic, and to be after independence primarily, the people who served below him were brutes, often more so than their South Vietnamese counterparts. They pushed through very violent land reform before the war was anywhere near over, and they kept prisoners of war in appalling conditions. One documentary stated that there was an exchange of prisoners of war between the Vietnamese and the French. The Vietnamese prisoners of war who were released by the French were well-fed and cared for, while the French prisoners of war who were released by the Vietnamese were starving and ill, with teeth falling out of their mouths.
Perhaps the best example of how the government of Vietnam ruined Ho Chi Minh's ideas is his mausoleum. He said he wanted to be cremated and his ashes spread, but they built an enormous mausoleum, seemingly copying the Soviet Union's display of Lenin, in a country still extremely poor and ruined by war.