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 Liberation 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.
How Ho Chi Minh confronted USA HYPOCRISY with Vietnam's Declaration of Independence :uncle-ho-2:
Marxists.org Ho Chi Mihn archive :uncle-ho:
Ballad of Ho Chi Minh! :red-fist:
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me with fidel, additionally. the one thing that awful ken burns docu did good was hagiography for uncle ho
Yeah that Ken Burns documentary did at least give Vietnamese a chance to talk despite being way to nice to the Americans.
I was even sympathetic with Fidel when I was a lib now that I think of it, to a lesser extent Lenin because the standard Stalin betrayed the revolution stuff that I learned in AP World history.
who is even responsible for pro-Lenin, anti-Stalin? i have the same track but like Chomsky is anti-Lenin. was it trotskyists?
but you wana know what got me on Fidel? hearing he had famously long speeches so i prank-printed one out for a 'read a speech' assignment in school--then i actually read it. always been a sucker for a dry subject matter ig
People making fun of Yeonmi Park :sicko-yes:
"When she opened her mouth I just thought 'nice tits' and tuned out" :sicko-no:
WISH ME LUCK PRETENDING TO BE NORMAL AROUND THESE PEOPLE I AM TRAVELING 2.5 HOURS TO SEE 🫵
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I started fencing! It's been neat. It's just about 6 hours a week but it's constant cardio 😩
Also I keep getting beat lol, my sword arm is covered in bruises (I've been fencing sabre). And the lunges and hours of squatting has my thighs feeling like I've ridden a horse bareback on rough terrain all day.
I used to work with a guy who was really into fencing and it was cool listening to him talk about the different styles, also he looked like Ali Boulala and dressed like a pirate
All swordfighting is cool. See if you can try out medieval longsword too (groups will either mention specific weapons like longsword, or the terms "HEMA" or "western martial arts" or "historical fencing" or other stuff like that and it's all fucking rad)
I got to try some historical longsword and sabre! It was so dope.
That's the worst. Sorry you had to deal with that :meow-hug:
it's so funny that men will masturbate yet insist that they're "straight". you're literally jacking off a dude while being jacked off by that same dude, lmao
this is still gay unless you look in the mirror at yourself while jerking off dressed as a woman
feeling an urge to walk into a forest and become part of a fungal network
my diet goal was not be fat
your diet goal is run a matharon in every state
damn i rly am a 'do as little as possible' ass mother fucker
based. i didnt ask to be here. how can they expect me to do stuff. their shit isnt my problem :smalls-unflinching:
You're less than half a year into your diet quest and you've done a marathon and are about to do another... wow.
A manga's description
Kei, a hot transfer student from the U.S., mistakes Yuri for a girl. Even when he realizes Yuri's a guy, he won't stop making passes at him!
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Yuri's always had a complex about his cute name and appearance, and Kei keeps pushing Yuri's buttons from day one [...] he loves to call Yuri "cute"...! One day, they're alone together in the library,
:antelope-popcorn: I'm reading this NOW
Posting about a cute BL manga and not providing a link: The twelfth type of liberalism
did you know that ouroboros got a rib removed so it could eat its own tail
in the future there won't be animals for pets anymore, just fruit. you're going to put a leash on a pineapple and drag it around the neighborhood
You'd need a way to keep it from rotting... maybe if it was immersed in some sort of salty brine
Taco Bell exclusive soda that replaces the sugar with estrogen. Blåhaj Blast.