Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh or by his real name Nguyen Tat Thanh was a vietnamese communist leader and the principal force behind the Vietnamese struggle against the French colonial rule. Ho was born on May 19th 1890, in the village of Kimlien, Annam. Ho was forced to leave China when local authorities discovered communist activities, but he returned in 1930 to find ICP which is Indochinese Communist Party. In 1938, China served as an adviser with Chinese Communist armed forces. In 1941, he resumed contact with ICP leaders and helped to find a new Communist dominated independence movement, popularly known as the Vietminh, which fought the Japanese. The movement later got Japan to surrender and the Vietminh seized power and proclaimed the democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). Ho Chi Minh became president and had a title know as pseudonym which meant the Enlightener. Vietminh fought the French troops in the mountains and rice paddies of Vietnam, finally defeating them in the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1945. Ho, was deprived of his victory. The DRV, with Ho still president, now devoted its efforts to constructing a Communist society in North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh or by his real name Nguyen Tat Thanh was a vietnamese communist leader and the principal force behind the Vietnamese struggle against the French colonial rule. Ho was born on May 19th 1890, in the village of Kimlien, Annam. Ho was forced to leave China when local authorities discovered communist activities, but he returned in 1930 to find ICP which is Indochinese Communist Party. In 1938, China served as an adviser with Chinese Communist armed forces. In 1941, he resumed contact with ICP leaders and helped to find a new Communist dominated independence movement, popularly known as the Vietminh, which fought the Japanese. The movement later got Japan to surrender and the Vietminh seized power and proclaimed the democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). Ho Chi Minh became president and had a title know as pseudonym which meant the Enlightener. Vietminh fought the French troops in the mountains and rice paddies of Vietnam, finally defeating them in the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1945. Ho, was deprived of his victory. The DRV, with Ho still president, now devoted its efforts to constructing a Communist society in North Vietnam