The journey to national independence of Nguyen Ai Quoc - Ho Chi Minh (1911-1945)

Vu Thi Hong  Dung

doi:10.48165/sajssh.2023.4410

Authors

Vu Thi Hong Dung Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Vietnam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/sajssh.2023.4410

Keywords:

Nguyen Ai Quoc, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, journey, finding the way, August Revolution 1945, saving the country, national independence

Abstract

Nguyen Ai Quoc - Ho Chi Minh is the founder of the Communist Party of Vietnam (early 1930), leader of the General Uprising in August 1945, to gain national independence, author of the Declaration of Independence declaring the establishment Democratic Republic of Vietnam (September 2, 1945) and the first President of the new Vietnam... He is the soul, the leader who leads and realizes the aspirations of independence and freedom of Vietnam. This study outlines the journey of national independence of Nguyen Ai Quoc - Ho Chi Minh in the period 1911-1945.

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The Comintern sent Nguyen Ai Quoc to Guangzhou (China) to act as an interpreter for the Soviet advisory delegation (led by Borodin) to assist the Government of the Republic of China. and was the representative of the Oriental Ministry of the Communist International in Guangzhou in charge of South Asian affairs. 2 A collection of lectures by Nguyen Ai Quoc for staff training classes of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, held in Guangzhou in the years 1925-1927. The work was compiled by the Propaganda Department of the Union of Oppressed Peoples and republished as a book.

The original headquarters of the Association was a space on the 2nd floor of building 13, after a while the Association rented two more rooms 3 of houses 13 and 13B (now 248-250) Van Minh street, Guangzhou city, Quang province, China.

At the end of 1944, an American plane was shot down by the Japanese at Nuoc Hai, Cao Bang, and American pilot William Shaw was rescued by the people of the Viet Minh Front according to Ho Chi Minh's previous instruction and policy "US Army" is my friend. Saving the American pilot is my friend".

The US sent a team of Con Nai (Deer) to parachute to Tan Trao base to help train the military, and at the same time to provide some medicine, weapons, technical equipment... Especially, it established a mixed company of Vietnam - The Americans were about 200 men and on August 16, 1945, the company held a ceremony to leave the army at Tan Trao and then went down to liberate Thai Nguyen town and headed to Hanoi.

After returning from Kunming with a number of technical and radio technicians supported by the US, Ho Chi Minh built a shack in Tan Trao and Tuyen Qunag for American forces to work and live, called "" Allied shack” right next to his workplace. The day after each working session, he often went to the Allied shack to talk and visit them, but mainly to monitor and listen to news from their means. Therefore, he knew specifically when Japan surrendered to the Allies and Allies, which forces would enter Vietnam to disarm the Japanese army.