Paris exhibition features Ho Chi Minh’s aspiration for national independence
(VOVWORLD) -Nearly 200 photos and documents featuring President Ho Chi Minh’s life and career are on display at an exhibition entitled “Ho Chi Minh – Desire for National Independence” which opened in Paris on Sunday.
 Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang (third from left) and other delegates cut ribbon to launch the exhibition. (Photo: Ngoc Hiep/VNA correspondent in France) |
The exhibition recounts President Ho Chi Minh’s youthful years searching for a way to save the nation to the time when he became the beloved leader of the Vietnamese people.
It focuses on the periods when young man named Nguyen Tat Thanh first found his determination to find a way to save the nation. It follows his journey of transition from a patriotic youth to a communist soldier between 1911 and 1930. When he emerged as leader Nguyen Ai Quoc it recounts how he founded the Communist Party and directed the Vietnamese revolutionary movement from 1930 to 1945. Finally, it reveals leader Ho Chi Minh who gave birth to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the victorious resistance war from 1945 to 1954.
The exhibition also features President Ho Chi Minh, who led the cause of building and protecting the socialist North while fighting to liberate the South, reunifying the nation from 1955 to 1969 and Ho Chi Minh in the hearts of people around the world from 1969 to the present.
The exhibition, part of a series of activities to mark the 134th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh on May 19, is running through June 3.