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Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam, with a long white beard and mustache, wearing a dark jacket, seated and looking to the side in a 1957 black-and-white portrait.
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Ho Chi Minh

president of North Vietnam
Also known as: Ba, Ly Thuy, Nguyen Ai Quoc, Nguyen Sinh Cung, Nguyen Tat Thanh(Show More)
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Jean Lacouture
Former Professor, Institute for Political Studies, University of Paris. Adviser, Éditions du Seuil, Paris. Author of Ho Chi Minh and others.
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Ho Chi Minh (born May 19, 1890, Hoang Tru, Vietnam, French Indochina—died September 2, 1969, Hanoi, North Vietnam) was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party (1930) and its successor, the Viet-Minh (1941), and president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). As the leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement for nearly three decades, Ho was one of the prime movers of the post-World War II anti-colonial movement in Asia...

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