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| Author | Karl Marx |
|---|---|
| Written in | 1849 |
| First published | 1849 |
| Type | Pamphlet |
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Comrades
9 December
1953
- Statesian company General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
Hồ Chí Minh | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of comrade Ho Chi Minh | |
| Born | Nguyễn Sinh Cung May 19, 1890 Kim Liên, Nghệ An Province, French Indochina |
| Died | September 2, 1969 (aged 79) Hanoi, North Vietnam |
| Cause of death | Heart failure |
| Nationality | Vietnamese |
| Political orientation | Marxism-Leninism Ho Chi Minh Thought |
Hồ Chí Minh[a] (Chữ quốc ngữ: Hồ Chí Minh; Hanzi: 胡志明; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and Marxist–Leninist politician who served as the 1st President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death in 1969. He is colloquially known in Vietnam as Uncle Ho. During his life, he used between 50 and 200 pseudonyms in order to conduct his revolutionary activities.[1] Aside from being a revolutionary, Ho Chi Minh was also a writer, a poet and a journalist highly critical of colonialism and imperialism. He wrote many books, articles and poems in French, Chinese and Vietnamese and was also a polyglot. Ho Chi Minh is famous for his 30 years of traveling around the globe, learning from western bourgeois regimes and finally discovering Marxism–Leninism.
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 both French colonialism 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 (CC) of the Vietnam Labor Party (now the Communist Party of Vietnam) from February 1951 to 1969, and led the war against the French colonialists from 1945 to 1954, and the war against the United States and its lackeys in the 1960s. He passed away in Hanoi on 2 September 1969, at the age of 79. In 1976—one year after the Liberation of Saigon—the city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honour of the former revolutionary and father of the nation.
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- ↑ Dennis Duncanson (1957). Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong 1931–1932 (p. 85). The China Quarterly.