19 Mei 1890, lahir pemimpin besar rakyat Vietnam, Ho Chi MinhThe great Vietnamese communist revolutionary, Ho Chi Minh, was born on this day in 1890.The revolutionary and leader of the Vietnamese struggle for national liberation, Ho Chi Minh was born in 1890. Despite attending a French colonial school as a child, Ho Chi Minh would be influenced by his father who refused to serve in the French colonial government. At age 21, Ho Chi Minh left his country to become a revolutionary, traveling through Harlem, Moscow, London and Paris and getting involved in the international socialist movement. Whilst he also joined other Vietnamese compatriots who were organizing anti-colonial and pro-independence projects.Later he lived in the Soviet Union and China for several years where he worked and studied in different governmental institutions. He also served as a senior Comintern agent around Southeast Asia for years and eventually, in the late 1930s, settled in China to work for the Communist armed forces.Finally, in 1941, Ho Chi Minh returned to his Vietnamese homeland where he became the most prominent leader of the independence struggle because he exercised a major role in uniting the left fractions and forging the party that would lead the liberation movement in the region. In 1945, after the success of the August Revolution, Ho was elected as the President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and proclaimed independence. As the leader of the revolutionary movement of Vietnam, Ho oversaw the famous Dien Bien Phu military win against French colonial forces, as well as much of the war against the U.S. during the Vietnam War.By the 1960s his name was chanted by demonstrators the world over, for whom he became a symbol of the Third World’s will and ability to stand up to American imperialism. Ho Chi Minh was a staunch internationalist, who fought for nations' auto-determination and for the liberation of proletariat around the world.Rest in power Uncle Ho!
On this day in 1890, the revolutionary leader of the Vietnamese struggle for national liberation, Ho Chi Minh, was born. He gave the Third World hope and the struggle for independence he led gave U.S. imperialism a bloody nose. At age 21, Ho Chi Minh left his country to become a revolutionary, traveling through Harlem, Moscow, London and Paris and getting involved in the international socialist movement. After returning to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh exercised a major role in uniting the left fractions and forging the party that would lead the liberation movement in the region. By the 1960s, his name was chanted by demonstrators the world over, for whom he became a symbol of the Third World’s will and ability to stand up to U.S. imperialism. Though initially a Vietnamese nationalist who only wanted to get rid of colonialism in his homeland, he became convinced of the need for socialism after reading Lenin on imperialism. Lenin claimed that no nation can be free if it oppresses other nations and explained the necessity of fighting all forms of oppression and exploitation, both that of the working class in colonizing countries as well as the masses in colonized countries. Ho Chi Minh became a staunch internationalist and was thoroughly convinced that both struggles were intertwined, even joining protest marches calling for the independence of Ireland when he lived in London. He once wrote: "Colonialism is a leech with two suckers; one of which sucks the metropolitan proletariat and the other that of the colonies. If we want to kill this monster, we must cut off both suckers at the same time. If only one is cut off, the other will continue to suck the blood of the proletariat, the animal will continue to live, and the cut-off sucker will grow again." Rest in Power comrade.
