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Hồ Chí Minh

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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 (Vietnamese: “the one who shines” born in 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.