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=== Early life ===
=== Early life ===
In 1890, Ho Chi Minh was born as Nguyễn Sinh Cung and raised in Kim Liên village, in the province of Nghệ An as a child of a rural teacher named [[Nguyễn Sinh Sắc]] (his father) and of a weaver named Hoàng Thị Loan (his mother). At that time, Vietnam was suffering from French colonialism steming in 1858. Despite many struggles of resistance, the French colonialists consolidated its occupation by 1884. However, many uprisings of rebels seeking to re-establish the feudal system still persisted including those of Phan Đình Phùng (1885 - 96) and of Hoàng Hoa Thám (1884 - 1913).
In 1890, Ho Chi Minh was born and raised in the province of Nghê An as a child of a rural teacher. At that time, Vietnam had suffered a French invasion in 1858. Despite many struggles of resistance, the French colonialists consolidated its occupation by 1884.


He was the third child in the family. The eldest sister was borned in 1884, named Nguyễn Thị Thanh and his older brother, borned in 1888 was named Nguyễn Sinh Khiêm. After his 30-year journey across the world and his subsequent return to Vietnam in 1941, he would only meet his older brother and sister one last time in 1946.
Ho Chi Minh learned [[Esperanto]] between 1914 and 1917 in his visit to Britain.<ref name=:1>{{Web citation|url=http://esperanto.cri.cn/1/2006/12/27/1@51427.htm|title=Ho Chi Minh kaj Esperanto|date=2006-12-27T14:53:21Z+08:00|newspaper=[[China Radio International]]}}</ref>


He and his family lived in the village of Hoàng Trù where his grandparents would teach [[Confucianism]] and writing to the children of the village. There, Ho Chi Minh was exposed to the Vietnamese stories, songs and fairytales.
In 1895, his father took the family to Huế by foot through the rural countryside. They would lived in an army barrack near the Governor's building as his father was preparing for an entrance examination to become a Mandarin. 3 years later, in 1898, his father would move the family to Dương Nỗ village, 7km from Huế, to teach children and Ho Chi Minh himself to write in Chinese characters. The family would live in the abandoned home of Nguyễn Sĩ Khuyến.
In 1901, as Ho Chi Minh had moved into Huế again with his mother while his father and brother had gone to Thanh Hóa to attend the entrance exam, his mother gave birth to the fourth child - Xin. Unfortunately, Xin would died due to malnutrition and his mother would soon died as well. Devastated, he would moved to Kim Liên with his grandmother for a little while. Not long after, he was informed that his father had passed the entrance exam as a ''Phó bảng'' "Junior Doctor". As per [[Confucian]] tradition, his father gave him a new name: ''Nguyễn Tất Thành''.
By now, Ho Chi Minh was attending formal classes with the scholar Vương Thúc Quý, a son of a rebel who fought the French, and then had gotten good with Chinese characters. The scholar was also regionally famous and had intellectuals visiting him, chief among them was the infamous [[Phan Bội Châu]] whom Ho Chi Minh would take inspiration from to fight for an independent Vietnam.
=== Activism in France ===
=== Activism in France ===
In 1911, Ho Chi Minh left Vietnam to seek for ways to achieve [[national liberation]] of his country. He traveled to France, visited various French colonies in Africa, went to the United States and many Latin American countries. He also went to England, [[German Empire (1871–1918)|Germany]] and [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)|Russia]], then finally returned to France.
In 1911, Ho Chi Minh left Vietnam to seek for ways to achieve [[national liberation]] of his country. He traveled to France, visited various French colonies in Africa, went to the United States and many Latin American countries. He also went to England, [[German Empire (1871–1918)|Germany]] and [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)|Russia]], then finally returned to France.
Ho Chi Minh learned [[Esperanto]] between 1914 and 1917 in his visit to Britain.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|newspaper=[[China Radio International]]|title=Ho Chi Minh kaj Esperanto|date=2006-12-27T14:53:21Z+08:00|url=http://esperanto.cri.cn/1/2006/12/27/1@51427.htm}}</ref>


In 1919, Ho Chi Minh joined the [[Socialist Party of France]] and studied social theory, the French and North-American revolutions, the [[Commune of Paris]], and the [[October Revolution]] in Russia. In June 1919, he presented a 8-point platform in the [[Paris Peace Conference]], demanding freedom from colonial interference in Vietnam.
In 1919, Ho Chi Minh joined the [[Socialist Party of France]] and studied social theory, the French and North-American revolutions, the [[Commune of Paris]], and the [[October Revolution]] in Russia. In June 1919, he presented a 8-point platform in the [[Paris Peace Conference]], demanding freedom from colonial interference in Vietnam.

Revision as of 10:42, 25 August 2024

Hồ Chí Minh
Portrait of comrade Ho Chi Minh
Born
Nguyễn Sinh Cung

(1890-05-19)May 19, 1890
Kim Liên, Nghệ An Province, French Indochina
DiedSeptember 2, 1969(1969-09-02) (aged 79)
Hanoi, North Vietnam
Cause of deathHeart failure
NationalityVietnamese
Political orientationMarxism-Leninism
Ho Chi Minh Thought

Ho Chi Minh[a] (May 19, 1890 — September 2, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary. He is known in Vietnam by the nickname Uncle Ho.

Ho Chi Minh joined the Communist Party of France in 1920, studied in the Soviet Union in 1923, joined the Communist International in 1924, and carried out revolutionary activities in China from 1924 to 1927. In 1930, he founded the Communist Party of Indochina, and in 1941 he initiated the establishment of the Vietnam Independence League, which led the struggle against the French colonialists and Japanese imperialism.

Ho Chi Minh was elected President and Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in March 1946, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Labor Party (now the Communist Party of Vietnam) from February 1951 to 1969, and led the war against France from 1945 to 1954, and the war against the United States in the 1960s. He died in Hanoi on September 2, 1969, at the age of 79.

Aside from being a politician, Ho was also a writer, a poet and a journalist. He wrote several books, articles and poems in French, Chinese and Vietnamese.

Life

Early life

In 1890, Ho Chi Minh was born and raised in the province of Nghê An as a child of a rural teacher. At that time, Vietnam had suffered a French invasion in 1858. Despite many struggles of resistance, the French colonialists consolidated its occupation by 1884.

Ho Chi Minh learned Esperanto between 1914 and 1917 in his visit to Britain.[1]

Activism in France

In 1911, Ho Chi Minh left Vietnam to seek for ways to achieve national liberation of his country. He traveled to France, visited various French colonies in Africa, went to the United States and many Latin American countries. He also went to England, Germany and Russia, then finally returned to France.

In 1919, Ho Chi Minh joined the Socialist Party of France and studied social theory, the French and North-American revolutions, the Commune of Paris, and the October Revolution in Russia. In June 1919, he presented a 8-point platform in the Paris Peace Conference, demanding freedom from colonial interference in Vietnam.

In 1920, it was the first time Ho Chi Minh had access to Lenin's article Theses on the national and colonial questions, published in the periodical L'Humanité, the newspaper organ of French Socialist Party. In December of that same year, Ho Chi Mihn participated of the 18th Congress of the FSP, in which the French Communist Party was founded.

Vietnamese independence movement

In 1924, Ho Chi Minh traveled to China, in the city of Guangzhou. Along with other revolutionaries from parts of Asia, including China, Korea, India, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, he founded the Association of Oppressed Peoples of Asia.[2] In the same year, he traveled to Moscow to speak in support of national liberation at the 5th Congress of the Comintern.[3]

In 1925, Ho Chi Minh helped develop the Association of Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth, what became the embryo of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

In 1931, the Hong Kong police arrested Ho Chi Minh at the request of France.

In 1935, the first National Congress of CPV was established.[2]

In September 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence from France by simply saying, "We are free".[4]

Anti-French Resistance War

Resistance War against the United States

See also

References

  1. "Ho Chi Minh kaj Esperanto" (2006-12-27T14:53:21Z+08:00). China Radio International.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ho Chi Minh, Pedro de Oliveira (2020). Ho Chi Minh: vida e obra do líder da libertação nacional do Vietnã. Anita Garibaldi. [LG]
  3. "Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, ¡presente! − a WW statement" (2023-05-19). Workers World.
  4. Vijay Prashad (2017). Red Star over the Third World: 'Preface' (p. 12). [PDF] New Delhi: LeftWord Books.

Notes

  1. Vietnamese: Hồ Chí Minh, “the one who shines”