Geburtstag: 19. Mai 1890
Todesdatum: 2. September 1969
Hồ Chí Minh war ein vietnamesischer Revolutionär und kommunistischer Politiker, Premierminister und Präsident der Demokratischen Republik Vietnam.
Nach mehreren Stationen im Ausland, darunter Paris und Moskau, gehörte Hồ Chí Minh 1930 in Hongkong zu den Gründern der Kommunistischen Partei Indochinas, aus der später die Kommunistische Partei Vietnams hervorging. 1941 wurde er in Vietnam zum Anführer der neu gegründeten Việt Minh, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg gegen die japanischen Besatzer und die vichy-französische Kolonialmacht, die mit den Japanern kollaborierte, kämpfte. Nach der Ausrufung der Unabhängigkeit am 2. September 1945 ging der Kampf um Vietnam jedoch weiter: zuerst im Indochinakrieg gegen Frankreich , dann im Vietnamkrieg , dessen Ende Hồ Chí Minh nicht mehr erlebte.
1976 wurde Vietnam wiedervereinigt. Saigon, die frühere Hauptstadt von Südvietnam, wurde in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt umbenannt.
— Ho Chi Minh
während des Indochina-Krieges 1946; Der Spiegel: Immer siegreich, Heftausgabe vom 8. September 1969
— Ho Chi Minh
Context: A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the Fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent.
For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country and in fact it already has been so. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilise all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.
Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21
— Ho Chi Minh
Context: A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the Fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent.
For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country and in fact it already has been so. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilise all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.
Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21
— Ho Chi Minh
As quoted in From Colonialism to Communism : A Case History of North Vietnam (1964) by Văn Chí Hoàng, p. 37
— Ho Chi Minh
From a letter sent to the Communist Party of Vietnam, quoted in Vietnam & Trotskyism https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/vietnam/pirani/hochiminh.htm (1987)
— Ho Chi Minh
As quoted in Vietnam: The Betrayal of a Revolution https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/10/20/vietnam-the-betrayal-of-a-revolution/baef22ef-5ee7-43f0-97d3-7dc02ab24533/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.865c3958cb61 (20 October 1991), by Bui Tin
— Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21
— Ho Chi Minh
Political slogan, quoted in Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam : A Personal Memoir (1972) by Jean Sainteny, p. 172
Variant translation: Nothing is more valuable than freedom and independence.
World Marxist Review: Problems of Peace and Socialism (1979), p. 91
— Ho Chi Minh
As quoted in Vietnam : A History (1983) by Stanley Karnow, p. 153; also in A Phoenix Reborn: Travels in New Vietnam (2008) by Andrew Forbes
The historian Professor Liam Kelley of the University of Hawaii at Manoa on his Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog challenged the authenticity of the alleged quote where Ho Chi Minh said he would rather sniff French shit than eat Chinese shit, noting that Stanley Karnow provided no source for the extended quote attributed to Ho in his 1983 Vietnam: A History, and that the original quote was most likely forged by the Frenchman Paul Mus in his 1952 book Viêt-Nam: Sociologie d’une Guerre, Mus was a supporter of French colonialism in Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh knew that there was no danger of Chinese troops staying in Vietnam, and in fact the Vietnamese at the time were busy spreading anti-French propaganda as evidence of French atrocities in Vietnam emerged, while Ho Chi Minh showed no qualms about accepting Chinese aid after 1949. https://leminhkhai.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/ho-chi-minh-said-what/ ( proof that he runs the blog https://web.archive.org/web/20141014090118/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/history/node/44)
