President Ho Chi Minh - Hero of National Liberation, Great Man of Culture
17/5/15
On these days, many activities are scheduled to organize across
the country to mark President Ho Chi Minh’s 125th birthday.
Annually, on this occasion, Vietnamese people have recalled Uncle Ho’s
contributions and his heritage to Vietnam and the world, at large.
He said in his Testament, “All my life, I have served the
Homeland, the revolution and the people with all my heart and strength. If I
should now depart from this world, I would have nothing to regret, except not
being able to serve longer and more.”
President Ho Chi Minh is a genius leader, a great teacher of the
Vietnamese revolution, a beloved Uncle of Vietnamese people, the hero of national
liberation and great man of culture of the world, who had devoted all
his life to national independence, freedom and the happiness of his people.
Born on May 19,1890 in a patriotic family of scholars, in Nghe
An province; President Ho Chi Minh decided to leave the homeland to to seek the
path of national liberation, saving his country and people at the
early age of 21.
He then went to across many countries in Asia, Africa, Europe
and America from 1911 to 1917, people and France participated in the labor
movement, the socialist movement, overseas operations in Vietnam. He used the
name Nguyen Ai Quoc( meaning love for the nation).
In 1930, Nguyen Ai Quoc founded the Vietnam Communist Party,
marking a turning point of the revolutionary history of the country. Under the
leadership of the Party, headed by leader Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam people
successfully won the August 1945 revolution, overthrowing the semi-colonial
condition.
On September 2, 1945 at Ba Dinh Square, Ho Chi Minh read the
Declaration of Independence, declared the founding of the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam.
After the August Revolution, President Ho Chi Minh continued to
lead Vietnam through two resistance wars to win against the French and
Americans.
President Ho Chi Minh is a symbol of true patriotism accompanied
with proletarian internationalism.
He is a great international soldiers, resilient and incredibly
bright, with life-long struggle for justice, peace and progress of the
oppressed peoples of the world.
During those years of activities abroad, President Ho Chi Minh
wrote books, articles in French, English, Russian, received the quintessence of
Western culture particularly receptive to Marxism – Leninism. Thus,
crystallized in him are the value of both national and global culture,
traditional and contemporary.
Ho Chi Minh spoke many languages fluently such as French,
English, Russian, Chinese, German. The quintessence of Confucianism, Buddhism,
inherited traditional Eastern culture also converged in this man. Ho Chi Minh
City has applied, developed and enrichedt Marxism - Leninism on a range of
issues in accordance with Vietnam revolutionary reality.
Ho Chi Minh was a pioneer soldiers of the revolutionary
literature and journalism, who fought a tireless struggle for national
independence and socialism, for justice in the world.
The President left behind invaluable asset, including three
aspects: Ho Chi Minh thought which features, morality and dignity; President Ho
Chi Minh’s career which we need to continue and Ho Chi Minh era- a great era of
the Vietnamese nation.
Particularly, timely and deep values of Ho Chi Minh’s
thoughts have been the doctrine for the Vietnamese revolution, the foundation
of the national past struggle for national salvation and in the current
national renewal, construction and defense process.
Revolutionary morality is socializing with the people, believe
in people, understand and listen the people. Ho Chi Minh often reminded
Party officials and members to consider virtue as the root of the revolution
and people. They should be industrious, thrifty, upright, honest,
public-spirited and selfless.
The ideology as well as moral example of Ho Chi Minh penetrates
all spheres of social life of the people of Vietnam, becomes national cultural
values. They are humanitarian and national peace, democracy and human liberty,
happiness and patriotism with true nationalism.
For
outstanding contributions to the nation and to mankind advances, President Ho
Chi Minh has been recognized “a Vietnamese hero of national liberation and a
great man of culture” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural United Nations (UNESCO).
According to UNESCO Resolution: "The important
contributions in many aspects in the fields of culture, education and art is
the crystallization of thousands- year cultural traditions of Vietnamese people
and his ideas are embodiment of the aspirations of the peoples in asserting
national identity and typical for the promotion of mutual understanding".
President Ho Chi Minh is the pioneer of national liberation. He
had led millions of Vietnamese and thousands more enslaved in 100 countries
around the world to gain independence and freedom, against old and new
colonialism. He has created a change never seen before since capitalism
overthrown ancient Roman Empire. He has redrawn map of the world. President Ho
Chi Minh is worthy to be a cultural figure of the 20th century.
In the new context of industrialization and modernization, every
government cadre and Party member is obligated to lead and set a good example
in following President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example in serving the nation and
people of Vietnam.
Vietnamese people also need to understand Uncle Ho’s moral
thoughts, continue developing a rich people, a strong country, independence and
self-reliance while resolutely protecting national territorial integrity. Ho
Chi Minh thought shines forever on the cause of independence, freedom,
industrialization and modernization of our nation./.
All comments [ 13 ]
Ho Chi Minh has been praised and admired not only for ingenious leadership that helped Vietnam get glorious victories in two wars against Frence and America, but also for his morality and personality
that's right, I like his simplicity that is really very rare to find in another leader
While the whole world have praised Ho Chi Minh, it's ashame there are still some people who try to distort and smear his life and career
Worldwide celebrations in overseas Vietnamese communities also saw various activities to mark President Ho Chi Minh's 125th birthday anniversary.
Uncle Ho devoted his life to the national liberation cause, while tirelessly striving for peace and progress in the world.
President Ho Chi Minh was a great man due to his role in and enormous contributions to the history of Vietnam and the world.
He directed Vietnam to be an independent nation, encouraging a global national liberation movement
A great Vietnamese man!
A symposium was held in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg on May 18 to gain an insight into applying the ideology of President Ho Chi Minh in the contemporary era.
Standards of Ho Chi Minh morality is the perfect combination of theoretical and practical, is the symbol of the integration of Eastern and Western cultural values.
Undisputed great and honorable man!
The immortal thoughts of Ho Chi Minh President, with their deep theoretical thinking and practical outlook, remain fresh with the time.
“From the bottom of my heart, I think Ho Chi Minh is a man of great humanity and strong determination to pursue his goals.” said French historian Pierre Brocheux.
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