Unit 3. People's background

Unit 3: people’s background
welcome
President Hô Chí Minh was born on May 19, 1890 in Kim Lien Commune, Nam Dan District, Nghe An Province, and died on September 2, 1969 in Hanoi.
With immense love for the people, in 1911, he left the fatherland to go to the West to find the way of national liberation
In 1919, under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc, he sent to the Versailles Conference a petition for the freedom of the Vietnamese people that would also be the freedom of the colonised peoples

In June 1923, Nguyen Ai Quoc came to the Soviet Union from France. He worked in the Communist International.
Just after its founding, the Communist Party of Vietnam led a revolutionary high tide (1930-1931), its highest peak being the Nghe Tinh Soviet, the first dress rehearsal of the August Revolution of 1945.
In June 1931, Nguyen Ai Quoc was illegally arrested by the British imperialists in Hong Kong. This was an arduous and glorious time in the active life of Nguyen Ai Quoc. In spring 1933, he was set free
On 28 january 1941, he returned to the homeland after more than thirty years of activity abroad.
In August 1942, taking the mame of Ho Chi Minh. He was arrested by the Chiang Kai - shek authorities and jailed in Kwangsi prisons. In September 1943, he was set free.
In August 1945, he led the people to rise up in a general insurrection to seize power in the whole country. In September, 1945 at the historical Ba Dinh Square, Ho Chi Minh solemnly read the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and he became the first President
Under the leadership of President Ho Chi Minh, the sacred resistance war of the Vietnamese people was a great success, culminating gloriously in the historical victory at Dien Bien Phu (1954) which completely liberated the North of Vietnam
In 1964, US imperialists started their war of destruction by air force against the North
Before passing away President Ho Chi Minh left the Vietnamese people with the historical Testament.
Carrying out Ho Chi Minh’s Testament our united people have won over the destruction war by B.52 bombers of the US imperialists, ending the aggressive war.
In 1987, President Ho Chi Minh was revered as a national liberation hero and a world cultural celebrity by the UNESCO.
Nowadays,, Ho Chi Minh Thought is great spiritual property of our Party and nation, and it will forever enlighten the way of struggle of the Vietnmese people