Special art program marks 112 years of Ho Chi Minh's departure for national salvation
(VOVWORLD) -A special art program entitled “Songs about President Ho Chi Minh resound forever” was held in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday to mark the late leader’s 133rd birth anniversary (May 19) and the 112th years since he left the country to find a way for national salvation (June 5).
 A performance recreates Uncle Ho's journey to find a way to save the country. (Photo: V.H/VOV) |
The art program was staged in parts: "Song of truth", "Offering Uncle Ho thousands of flowers and feats" and "Ho Chi Minh City-Civilization, modernity, love". Performances recreated Uncle Ho's journey abroad before he returned to Vietnam to fight for national independence and freedom and read the Declaration of Independence, giving birth to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945.
On June 5, 1911, a young man named Nguyen Tat Thanh, who later became known as President Ho Chi Minh, boarded the French ship Admiral Latouche Tréville in the name of Van Ba to depart Nha Rong Wharf in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), starting his 30-year odyssey to seek a path for saving the country from colonialism.