HO CHI MINH
Ho Chi Minh is a man that will always remain in the memories of his generation, our generation, and generations ahead. He is one of those enigmatic figures that no matter ho much we know, it wont be enough. Ho has become one of the most famed communist revoulutionaries in history. He will forever be remembered in the book including the likes of Lenin, Marx, Stalin, and Mao. But though he is remembered sometimes as similar to these men, he is quite different from any of them. Hos vision was independence from colonial rule and tyranny in general. And on September 2nd, 1945, he got it. But it took him half a decade, dozens of pseudonyms and a good bit of globe trotting to get there. These next 12 pages document Hos earlier life, up until hs success of Vietnams independence. -(It is necessary to say here that due to Hos gift of secrecy and diguise, his early life is quite hard to assess; and that any attempt is just that, an attempt. So many document!s blatently contradict one another, it is hard to make heads from tails). The man we have come to call Ho Chi Minh was born Nguyen Sinh Cung on May 19th, 1890, in a small village called Kim Lien in a region called Annam
in that same year he was was an active participant in the Fifth Congress of the Commintern. Ho spoke out harshly against the organizations lack of action in the issue of colonialism. This appearance gave Ho considerable recognition as a significant revolutionary. This appearance is also noteable because it marks the first time that Ho spoke out on his belief that the agrarian population was what was key, more than the industrial population. And then in January of 1941, they crossed the border and Ho returned to hes homeland for the first time since that day in 1911 when he boarded the Amiril LaTouche bound for the west. He There in the border village of Pac Bo, Ho is said to have set up headquarters in a cave guarded by local peasants. Supposedly the mountain he lived in he named Marx and the stream he got water from he named Lenin. The group from there organized Indipendence League of Vietnam, or as it became popularly known as, Viet Minh. Ho sought to form an formal allegence with the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek. But Chiang was cynical about Hos intentions, and as a precautionary measure had him jailed. It was while in the chinese jail for 18 months that he wrote the famous Notebook From Prison a collection of Manderin poems filled with stoicism, frustration and dispair. His friends were finally after a year and a half, negotiate with a government official to gain his release. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ a region that now makes up central Vietnam. The region was indirectly run by the French through a puppet emporer. Most of the villigers in the region were strongly opposed to the French's prescence, but laked the determination or leadership to act. Ho's father, an agrarian intellectual, actually served on the imperial court for some time, before leaving at his fellow villigers wishes. (some say he was forced to leave due to his criticizm of French rule). As a measure of Vietnamese custom he received a new name, Nguyen Tat Thanh. The young Ho began his "education" at a young age exploring the volumes in his fathers library including many classical texts. He also studied the political situation of Vietnam, realizing the inadequacys of the current situation. It has been reported that ho first started his political the! saw that the time to ace was coming soon. He had his two leaders Pham and Vo, go to Kunming to be educated by the Chinese Eighth Rout in the art of intense guerilla warfare and political seizure of power. Giap acted quickly with his new knowledge, and by August of 1940 he had cleared the border area of both French and Japenese threats. In 1911 under the name Ba, he got work on a passenger liner Amiral LaTouche Treville as a galley boy. It would be thirty years before he found his way back to Vietnam. He would work abord the ship for the next three years traveling around to various European cities, African ports and the U.S. cities of Boston and New York before settling in London and finally Paris. It was these years abroad that were absolutely key to Ho's metamorpho
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Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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