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Hồ Chí Minh [a] [b] (born Nguyễn Sinh Cung; [c] [d] [e] [4] [5] 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), [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 1945 ...
Hồ Chí Minh, the first president, became president in 1945 after Vietnam's declaration of independence. Tô Lâm is the shortest-serving president, with 152 days (from May 22, 2024 to October 21, 2024) if not counting interim presidents. Hồ Chí Minh had the longest time as president, with 24 years from 1945 to his death in 1969.
An article in Nhân Dân on 25 March 1951 described Trường Chinh's role as the "builder and commander" of the revolution, while Hồ Chí Minh was referred to as "the soul of the Vietnamese revolution and the Vietnamese resistance". [9] Trường Chinh was demoted as first secretary in 1956 because of his role in the Land Reform campaign". [10]
Even though the land reform program was emphasized by many scholars as the failure of Trường Chinh, Hồ Chí Minh was the mainstay in pushing the program after he had sought advice from Stalin and Mao. [58] After Hồ Chí Minh visited China and personally discussed it with Mao in 1950, the land reform program was finally launched in 1953.
Phạm Văn Đồng joined the Indochinese Communist Party in 1940 and then continued to take part in activities led by Ho Chi Minh. In 1945, at the National People's Congress of Tân Trào, he was elected to the Standing Committee of five members of the National Committee for the Liberation, preparing for the August Revolution .
Nông Đức Mạnh's official biography gives his date of birth as 11 September 1940 and states that he was born to a peasant family from the Tày ethnic minority [6] when Hồ Chí Minh was still in China. [7] Ho returned to Vietnam in February 1941 [8] and met Trưng in July. Hồ wrote a four-line poem for Trưng in 1944, and gave her a ...
On the morning of August 26, 1945, at No. 48 Hàng Ngang, Hà Nội, Chairman Hồ Chí Minh presided over a meeting of the Communist Party of Vietnam, which he had called. The meeting unanimously decided to prepare to proclaim independence and to organize a large meeting in Hà Nội for the Provisional Revolutionary Government to present ...
In the end, the leftist tendency to embrace communism prevailed. Some members were transferred to study at the Revolutionary Youth League (founded in November 1925, led by Hồ Chí Minh), actively preparing for the establishment of a new party following the path of the Communist Party of Vietnam. [8]