About Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh | Life Highlights | Photographic Display.
Aug. 22, 2020 - posted by Paul Rowe.
Aug. 22, 2020 - posted by Paul Rowe.
Ho Chi Minh was crucial to the formation of contemporary Vietnam. To the Vietnamese today he is still much loved and considered the source of inspiration. He is respectfully referred to as Uncle Ho; the ultimate family ancestor.
The following photographic display takes you through highlights of Uncle Ho's long and interesting life. Note, there are many versions and interpretations of his life.
This display was on public display on Nguyen Hue Street, Ho Chi Minh City, August, 2020.
I could not find who to credit this display to.
(The original display was presented with Vietnamese and English languages. However, once I reduced the photo to web page size the writing became difficult to read. I decided to completely retype the English text, and increase the font size. Occasionally I simplified the text to improve readability. If Vietnamese language text is needed, just contact me.)
Photo displays, museum exhibitions, magazine stories, statues, and television discussions, etc., about this famous person are common in Vietnam. This well assembled and clearly explained display, celebrates 130 years since Ho Chi Minh's BIRTH, and 109 years of ??(awaiting accurate translation).
For those wanting to learn more about Vietnam, this display highlights key events in this historic figure's important life.
It might also cause us to reflect on, and appreciate the life we have today.
The following photographic display takes you through highlights of Uncle Ho's long and interesting life. Note, there are many versions and interpretations of his life.
This display was on public display on Nguyen Hue Street, Ho Chi Minh City, August, 2020.
I could not find who to credit this display to.
(The original display was presented with Vietnamese and English languages. However, once I reduced the photo to web page size the writing became difficult to read. I decided to completely retype the English text, and increase the font size. Occasionally I simplified the text to improve readability. If Vietnamese language text is needed, just contact me.)
Photo displays, museum exhibitions, magazine stories, statues, and television discussions, etc., about this famous person are common in Vietnam. This well assembled and clearly explained display, celebrates 130 years since Ho Chi Minh's BIRTH, and 109 years of ??(awaiting accurate translation).
For those wanting to learn more about Vietnam, this display highlights key events in this historic figure's important life.
It might also cause us to reflect on, and appreciate the life we have today.
The house in Hoang Tru Village, Nghe An Province where Nguyen Sing Cung was born on May 19th, 1890.
This map was not part of the display. I added it out of interest.
About Ho Chi Minh's FATHER.
Mr. Nguyen Sinh Sac (1862 - 1919) was from Sen Hamlet in Nghe An Province.
He descended from a rural family. He was a successful Confucian scholar, and in May 1906 was nominated an officer of the Ministry of Rites. Three years later he was nominated Chief of Binh Khe District.
In patriotic spirit he would oppose any mandarins, who were lackeys of the French colonialists who did not defend the poor. Eventually Ho’s father was recalled to Hue. He was demoted, caned 100 times, and reduced to a commoner.
He lived poorly, but honestly, as a teacher and then a traditional physician.
Mr. Nguyen Sinh Sac (1862 - 1919) was from Sen Hamlet in Nghe An Province.
He descended from a rural family. He was a successful Confucian scholar, and in May 1906 was nominated an officer of the Ministry of Rites. Three years later he was nominated Chief of Binh Khe District.
In patriotic spirit he would oppose any mandarins, who were lackeys of the French colonialists who did not defend the poor. Eventually Ho’s father was recalled to Hue. He was demoted, caned 100 times, and reduced to a commoner.
He lived poorly, but honestly, as a teacher and then a traditional physician.
About Ho Chi Minh's MOTHER.
Mrs. Hoang Thi Loan (1868 – 1901) Hoang Tru Hamlet in Nghe An province.
The kind-hearted woman was both a farmer and a weaver.
Her lifelong diligence and devotion to her family
ensured support for her husband’s and children’s education and well-being.
Uncle Ho’s mother died in 1901, in Hue.
Mrs. Hoang Thi Loan (1868 – 1901) Hoang Tru Hamlet in Nghe An province.
The kind-hearted woman was both a farmer and a weaver.
Her lifelong diligence and devotion to her family
ensured support for her husband’s and children’s education and well-being.
Uncle Ho’s mother died in 1901, in Hue.
Young Nguyen Sinh Cung was a smart, hard working student who enjoyed reading patriotic stories and poems. Discussion of contemporary issues with his father and other patriots, soon educated the boy in the spirit of patriotism and love for the people.
Painting: Nguyen Sinh Cung is listening to his father and uncles talking about the country.
Painting: Nguyen Sinh Cung is listening to his father and uncles talking about the country.
Hue National School, where Nguyen Sinh Cung studied in 1907-8 with the name Nguyen Tat Thanh.
In the summer of 1908, Nguyen Tat Thanh quit school and left Hue. He headed south to find a way to go abroad.
He stopped in Phan Thiet and taught for a short while in Duc Thanh school.
Painting: Duc Thanh School where teacher Nguyen Tat Thanh taught in 1910.
NOTE from Paul: This school and the local fish sauce factory served a long life as resistance centres.
He stopped in Phan Thiet and taught for a short while in Duc Thanh school.
Painting: Duc Thanh School where teacher Nguyen Tat Thanh taught in 1910.
NOTE from Paul: This school and the local fish sauce factory served a long life as resistance centres.
Distressed at the loss of the country and failure of patriotic movements, on June 5th 1911, the patriotic young man, Nguyen Tat Thanh boarded the Amiral Latouche-Treville in Saigon harbour, leaving his beloved homeland.
He traveled the world to find a way to save his country.
He traveled the world to find a way to save his country.
Carlton Hotel in London, England,
where Nguyen Tat Thanh worked as a cook and learned English during 1914 – 1917.
where Nguyen Tat Thanh worked as a cook and learned English during 1914 – 1917.
On June 18th 1919, with the name Nguyen Ai Quoc, on behalf of the patriotic Vietnamese Association in France, Uncle Ho sent to a conference in Versailles a claim, asking them to admit the rights of freedom, democracy and equality of the Vietnamese people.
Le Paria Newspaper, headed by Nguyen Ai Quoc, published many articles and satirical paintings denouncing crimes by colonists, and calling on Vietnamese to fight against colonialism.
Le Paria Newspaper, headed by Nguyen Ai Quoc, published many articles and satirical paintings denouncing crimes by colonists, and calling on Vietnamese to fight against colonialism.
In December 1920, with the name Nguyen Ai Quoc, he attended the 18th Congress of the French Socialist Party in Tours, France. At the Congress, he voted to join International 3, participated in founding the French Communist Party, and became the first Vietnamese communist.
Excerpt from Lenin’s Thesis on Ethnic and Colonial Issues, 1920. This text made Nguyen Ai Quoc change his ideology from patriot consciousness to communist consciousness.
9 Compoint Alley in Paris where Nguyen Ai Quoc lived in 1921-23. Also a heating brick typical of the time.
Comrade Nguyen Ai Quoc with delegates of other countries attended the 5th Communist International Congress, 1924, in Moscow. It passed the Resolution on establishing the Workers Unification Front and emphasizing the liberation of colonial peoples.
These houses in Guangzhou, China, were the headquarters of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc in 1925. This was also the political training school for cadres of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
The book Judgement of the French Colonial Regime was a political work of Nguyen Ai Quoc first published in France in 1925. The work denounced the crime of the French colonialists, and set the Vietnamese people on the path of liberation in accordance with Marxism-Leninism.
The Youth Newspaper, the official organ of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth Association
founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc in 1925, China.
founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc in 1925, China.
The work Duong Kach Menh (The Revolutionary Road) gathered lectures by Nguyen Ai Quoc given at the cadre training courses for the Vietnam Revolutionary movement in China. Published 1927.
The headquarters of the Communist International in Moscow, where comrade Nguyen Ai Quoc stayed and worked when he returned to the Soviet Union, in June 1927.
From January 6 to February 7, 1930, in Hong Kong, Nguyen Ai Quoc chaired the Conference on establishing the Communist Party of Vietnam. This was the important turning point in our country’s revolutionary history.
Painting: Nguyen Ai Quoc chaired the Conference on establishing the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Painting: Nguyen Ai Quoc chaired the Conference on establishing the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Painting: Nghe Tinh Soviet high tide (1930-31), the first rehearsal of the Vietnamese revolution led by the working class.
Victoria Prison in Hong Kong, where Nguyen Ai Quoc was detained from June 1931 to the end of 1932.
Lenin International University in Moscow where Nguyen Ai Quoc studied during 1934 – 36.
Nguyen Ai Quoc’s card for the 7th Communist International Congress, and a view of that 1935 Congress.
Painting: On January 28th 1941, after 30 years of operating abroad,
comrade Ho Chi Minh returned to the country to directly lead the Vietnamese revolution.
comrade Ho Chi Minh returned to the country to directly lead the Vietnamese revolution.
On December 22nd 1944, the Propaganda Brigade for the Liberation of Vietnam, the predecessor of Vietnam People’s Army, was established by President Ho Chi Minh’s Directive, headed by comrade Vo Nguyen Giap.
Together with the whole country, Saigon people rose up to seize power in the August Revolution in 1945.
The speech: The Declaration of Independence given by President Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi.
* Note from Paul: Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of Independence SPEECH, in English, is on my website. Just CLICK here.
After the Revolutionary State was born, President Ho Chi Minh and the Provisional Government issued a decree to organize a free general election across the whole country, to elect the National Assembly and pass Vietnam’s first democratic Constitution. The 1st National Assembly elected President Ho Chi Minh as President of
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Photo: President Ho Chi Minh announced taking office and introduced the Government component at the first session of the 1st National Assembly in Hanoi in February 1946.
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Photo: President Ho Chi Minh announced taking office and introduced the Government component at the first session of the 1st National Assembly in Hanoi in February 1946.
On May 26th 1946, President Ho Chi Minh visited and offered the flag with embroidered gold words “Being loyal to the country, filial to the people” to Tran Quoc Yuan Military College in Son Tay.
President Ho Chi Minh addressed the Paris City Council (France), declaring the determination of the entire Vietnamese people to uphold independence. They would rather sacrifice everything, than to be slaves. September 1946.
Responding to President Ho Chi Minh’s call for National Resistance: “Those who have guns to use guns, those who have swords to use swords, if not with swords, use hoes, spades, sticks…”, people in the whole country unanimously rose up in the resistance war to fight against the invasion of the French colonialists in December 1946.
President Ho Chi Minh directed military units before entering the Border campaign in 1950.
President Ho Chi Minh read the political report at the 2nd National Party Congress held in Vinh Quang Commune, Tuyen Quang, in February 1951.
In 1951, the Lien Viet Front was established on the basis of uniting Viet Minh and Lien Viet Fronts to carry out the slogan “One people, one front, promoting the political strength of the entire people,
bringing the cause of resistance to victory”.
Photo: President Ho Chi Minh and other delegates attending the Congress of founding the Liet Viet Front.
bringing the cause of resistance to victory”.
Photo: President Ho Chi Minh and other delegates attending the Congress of founding the Liet Viet Front.
In December 1953, in Viet Bac, President Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Party Central Committee decided to launch Dien Bien Phu Campaign to destroy the strategic stronghold of the French colonialists in Vietnam.
On May 7th 1954, Dien Bien Phu Campaign gained the victory
and completely defeated the aggression plan of the French colonialists.
Photo: The flag “Being determined to fight to gain victory” of our Army flew on the roof of the bunker of General De Castries on the battlefield of Dien Bien Phu.
and completely defeated the aggression plan of the French colonialists.
Photo: The flag “Being determined to fight to gain victory” of our Army flew on the roof of the bunker of General De Castries on the battlefield of Dien Bien Phu.
Remembering the merits of predecessors, before taking over Hanoi capital, on September 19th 1954, at Hung Temple, Phu Tho Province, President Ho Chi Minh advising cadres and soldiers of the Vanguard Corps:
“The Hung kings had the merit of building the country, we must together protect the country.”
“The Hung kings had the merit of building the country, we must together protect the country.”
The Unity National Front Congress was held from September 5th to 10th 1955 in Hanoi, deciding to establish the Vietnam Fatherland Front, continuing the career of the Lien Viet Front. The Congress elected President Ho Chi Minh the Honorary Chairman.
The resistance against French colonialist gained the victory, in the north, our people started to build socialism.
In the south the US replaced the French with the plot to invade our country for the long term. In May 1959, the 15th Conference of the Party Central Executive Committee, chaired by President Ho Chi Minh, adopted the guidelines for the southern revolution, to fight against the American imperialists to unify the country.
In the south the US replaced the French with the plot to invade our country for the long term. In May 1959, the 15th Conference of the Party Central Executive Committee, chaired by President Ho Chi Minh, adopted the guidelines for the southern revolution, to fight against the American imperialists to unify the country.
In September 1960, the 3rd National Congress of the Party was held in Hanoi. The Congress affirmed the policy of socialist construction in the north, and to carry out the people’s democratic national revolution in the south.
Photo: President Ho Chi Minh is speaking at the 3rd National Congress of the Party.
Photo: President Ho Chi Minh is speaking at the 3rd National Congress of the Party.
President Ho Chi Minh signed a decree to announce the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1960.
President Ho Chi Minh chaired the Politburo Conference to decide to launch the offensive and uprising campaign in the Spring of 1968.
. President Ho Chi Minh and international delegates coming to Hanoi to attend the International Conference on Solidarity with Vietnam against American aggression and defending peace. November 30th 1964.
On March 17th 1964, at the special Political Conference convened by President Ho Chi Minh,
he stated “Each of us must work in two to pay back to our southern compatriots.”
Photo: President Ho Chi Minh talks to intellectual delegates at the Conference.
he stated “Each of us must work in two to pay back to our southern compatriots.”
Photo: President Ho Chi Minh talks to intellectual delegates at the Conference.
THE DEATH of President Ho Chi Minh - September 1969.
In the memorial service for President Ho Chi Minh at Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi, comrade Le Duan read the Five Faithful Oath, and spoke of the determination of the entire Party, people and army to carry out Ho Chi Minh’s sacred Testament.
In the memorial service for President Ho Chi Minh at Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi, comrade Le Duan read the Five Faithful Oath, and spoke of the determination of the entire Party, people and army to carry out Ho Chi Minh’s sacred Testament.
Fulfilling Uncle Ho’s wish “to fight until the American get out, and the puppet regime falls headlong”,
people in the whole country continued to resist with unshakable spirit.
Photo: The US B-52 plane shot down by soldiers and Hanoi residents, in the battle of Dien Bien Phu in the air, December 1972.
people in the whole country continued to resist with unshakable spirit.
Photo: The US B-52 plane shot down by soldiers and Hanoi residents, in the battle of Dien Bien Phu in the air, December 1972.
On January 27th 1973, the Paris Agreement on ending the war, restoring peace in Vietnam was officially signed, forcing the United States to withdraw its troops.
The general offensive and uprising in the spring of 1975 peaked when
the historic Ho Chi Minh campaign liberated the south and unified the country.
Photo: At 11:30 on April 30th 1975, the Liberation Army occupied the Presidential palace, the last den of the enemy in Saigon, ended successfully the resistance war against the US to save the country in accordance with the wishes of beloved Uncle Ho.
the historic Ho Chi Minh campaign liberated the south and unified the country.
Photo: At 11:30 on April 30th 1975, the Liberation Army occupied the Presidential palace, the last den of the enemy in Saigon, ended successfully the resistance war against the US to save the country in accordance with the wishes of beloved Uncle Ho.
President Ho Chi Minh, the shining symbol of the spirit of determination to gain victory, the will of independence, the Hero of national liberation of Vietnam.
A view of the opening ceremony of the 1st Session of the National Assembly of UNIFIED Vietnam in Hanoi.
The meeting of July 2nd 1976 passed the Resolution on;
~ the name of the country,
~ the national flag,
~ the national emblem,
~ the national anthem,
~ Hanoi as the capitol, and
~ named Saigon-Gia Dinh Ho Ci Minh City.
The meeting of July 2nd 1976 passed the Resolution on;
~ the name of the country,
~ the national flag,
~ the national emblem,
~ the national anthem,
~ Hanoi as the capitol, and
~ named Saigon-Gia Dinh Ho Ci Minh City.
Implementing the advice of our beloved Uncle Ho, the HCMC Party Committee, authorities and people are determined to unite and join hands in building the city into a city with a good quality of life, being civilized, modern and affectionate.
Photo: Ho Chi Minh City is dazzling with fireworks when celebrating
the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 2nd of September.
Photo: Ho Chi Minh City is dazzling with fireworks when celebrating
the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 2nd of September.
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