Ho chi minh biography
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Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese communist leader (–)
For other uses, see Ho Chi Minh (disambiguation).
Hồ Chí Minh[a][b] (born Nguyễn Sinh Cung;[c][d][e][4][5] 19&#;May – 2&#;September ),[f] colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ)[g][8] and by other aliases[h] and sobriquets,[i] was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from until his death in , and as its first prime minister from to Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, he founded the Indochinese Communist Party in and its successor Workers' Party of Vietnam (later the Communist Party of Vietnam) in , serving as the party's chairman until his death.
Hồ was born in Nghệ An province in French Indochina, and received a French education. Starting in , he worked in various countries overseas, and in was a founding member of the F
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Ho Chi Minh ()
Ho Chi Minh, c ©Ho Chi Minh led the Vietnamese nationalist movement for more than three decades, fighting first against the Japanese, then the French colonial power and then the US-backed South Vietnamese. He was President of North Vietnam from until his death.
Ho Chi Minh (originally Nguyen That Thanh) was born on 19 May in Hoang Tru in central Vietnam. Vietnam was then a French colony, known as French Indo-China, but under the nominal rule of an emperor. Ho's father worked at the imperial court but was dismissed for criticising the French colonial power.
In , Ho took a job on a French ship and travelled widely. He lived in London and Paris, and was a founding member of the French communist party. In , he visited Moscow for training at Comintern, an organisation created by Lenin to promote worldwide revolution. He travelled to southern China to organise a revolutionary movement among Vietnamese exiles, and in founded the Indo-Chinese Communist Party (ICP)
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Ho Chi-Minh
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Who Was Ho Chi-Minh?
Ho Chi-Minh was the founder and first leader of Vietnam’s nationalist movement. Starting at an early age at the dawn of the 20th century, Ho became a strident voice for an independent Vietnam. He was inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution and joined the Communist Party traveling to the Soviet Union and China to spread the socialist doctrine into South East Asia. At the end of World War II, he appealed to the United States to assist him in liberating Vietnam from French control. But the post-war world order was not in his favor and he allied the hopes of his country with the Soviet Union and Communist China. Known as “Uncle Ho,” he became the symbol of Vietnamese liberation and the arch rival to the United States during the Vietnam War.
Early Life
Ho Chi-Minh was born Nguyen Sinh Cung on May 19, , in Nghe province in central Vietnam. He was brought into the struggle for independence almost from birth. Nghe was the center of resistance to Ch