Ho Chi Minh, real name Nguyen Tat Thanh (1890-1969), Vietnamese Communist leader and the principal force behind the Vietnamese struggle against French colonial rule.
Ho was born on May 19, 1890, in the village of Kimlien, Annam (central Vietnam), the son of an official who had resigned in protest against French domination of his country. Ho attended school in Hue and then briefly taught at a private school in Phan Thiet.
In 1911 he was employed as a cook on a French steamship liner and thereafter worked in London and Paris. After World War I, using the pseudonym Nguyen Ai Quoc (Nguyen the Patriot), Ho engaged in radical activities and was in the founding group of the French Communist party. He was summoned to Moscow for training and, in late 1924, he was sent to Canton, China, where he organized a revolutionary movement among Vietnamese exiles.
He was forced to leave China when local authorities cracked down on Communist activities, but he returned in 1930 to found the Indochinese Communist party (ICP). He stayed in Hong Kong as representative of the Communist International. In June 1931 Ho was arrested there by British police and remained in prison until his release in 1933.
He then made his way back to the Soviet Union, where he reportedly spent several years recovering from tuberculosis. In 1938 he returned to China and served as an adviser with Chinese Communist armed forces. When Japan occupied Vietnam in 1941, he resumed contact with ICP leaders and helped to found a new Communist-dominated independence movement, popularly known as the Vietminh, that fought the Japanese.
In August 1945, when Japan surrendered, the Vietminh seized power and proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh, now known by his final and best-known pseudonym (which means the “Enlightener”), became president.
The French were unwilling to grant independence to their colonial subjects, and in late 1946 war broke out. For eight years Vietminh guerrillas fought French troops in the mountains and rice paddies of Vietnam, finally defeating them in the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Ho, however, was deprived of his victory. Subsequent negotiations at Geneva divided the country, with only the North assigned to the Vietminh.
The DRV, with Ho still president, now devoted its efforts to constructing a Communist society in North Vietnam. In the early 1960s, however, conflict resumed in the South, where Communist-led guerrillas mounted an insurgency against the U.S.-supported regime in Saigon.
Ho, now in poor health, was reduced to a largely ceremonial role, while policy was shaped by others. On September 3, 1969, he died in Hanoi of heart failure. In his honor, after the Communist conquest of the South in 1975, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh was not only the founder of Vietnamese communism, he was the very soul of the revolution and of Vietnam's struggle for independence. His personal qualities of simplicity, integrity, and determination were widely admired, not only within Vietnam but elsewhere as well.
-- Interviewing President Ho Chi Minh (English subtitle), June 1964
-- The Path Which Led Me To Leninism
-- Bài Ca Hồ Chí Minh! Ballad of Ho Chi Minh!
-- Basic Introduction of Ho Chi Minh ideology
-- Think Like a Vietnamese Commie
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the idea of financially stable parents making their child pay them rent as soon as they turn 18 is so gross to me but it’s so common. it’s one thing for a working class family living check to check to need help from their child to pay the bills once they’re able to work, but it’s almost always well off families i see this happen in
Time to start preparing a bootstraps speech for when meemaw and peepaw can't live independently anymore.
I like the one where they put the money in a savings account for the kid or something like that. Helps form good habits and sets them up with a cushion when they move out
Its a gentle reminder that the parents want you out of the house. Yes, my mother did want me to pay rent after i graduated college lol. And yes, i will never ever ask my child to pay rent
not really that gentle though is it
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it really depends. A decent parent wouldn't charge anything the kid couldn't easily afford, and many put the money aside to give the kid a deposit or down payment on their future housing, not just take the money and spend it. But its still a very american thing to do, rather than like, talking to your kid.
They could offer to help with the rent you'll have to pay on an apartment or like, chip in on the damage deposit or do something other than stop you from saving money to actually move out.
Tbf, parents wanting you out of the house is pretty modern. I did want to leave though
In my parents' case they acted like they were doing us a favor. Like by forcing this need to work they were nudging us out of the nest instead of tyou know parasitizing their children
yeah there’s a fine line imo. i think it’d be a better move to have your kid set aside money for savings rather than charging them for existing
So glad my parents aren't fools and have notices that I've been systematically fucked into the position I'm in and that they got in at the last good time and came out incredibly well all things considered. I'm sure they'd like me to have found a career that makes me rich, but they didn't do anything I didn't and came out fine, so they're quite aware how fucked it is now and are also mad about it. Throw my tips in and I make just short of 2.6 grand a month, which seems okay until you factor in the fact a one bedroom apartment is $1700 and grocery prices have close to fucking doubled in the last 5 years, they get it and help out. They've talked with their pals around the same age how fucked it is that me and the kids of their pals, some of those kids who have what should be better paying jobs, will probably only own a home once our parents die.