Ho Chi Minh biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Ho Chi Minh

Author Name:

Ho Chi Minh

Born As:

Nguyễn Sinh Cung

Other Names:

Ho Chi Minh

Born:

19 May 1892

Died:

2 Sep 1969




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Soldier revolutionary                          
                          
Father  Nguyễn Sinh Sắc                          
Prime Minister - 1946 - 1955, and President - 1946 - 1969, of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam - North Vietnam.
Ho is most famous for leading the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. He led the North Vietnamese in the Vietnam War until his death; six years later, the war ended with a North Vietnamese victory, and Vietnamese unification followed. The former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor.                          
On 5 June 1911, Hồ Chí Minh left Vietnam on a French steamer, Amiral Latouche-Tréville, working as a kitchen help. Arriving in Marseille, France, he applied for the French Colonial Administrative School but his application was rejected. During his stay, he worked as a cleaner, waiter, and film retoucher. Hồ spent most of his free time in public libraries reading history books and newspapers to familiarize himself with Western society and politics.