Hồ Chí Minh



"So, that's Hồ Chí Minh. Uncle Hồ's the name too. Guess this guy may look so tears-of-joy-jerkin' to the Vietnamese people back then when the Vietnam War was won by them, even if he died too sooner than that, then I guess my vilage would've supported him because Vietnam is our communist ally. Well, for most of the time."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Tunnel Cups

Hồ Chí Minh (/hoʊ tʃiː mɪn/; Vietnamese: [hò cǐ mīŋ̟], Saigon: [hò cǐ mɨ̄n]); Chữ nôm: 胡志明; May 19, 1890 -- September 2, 1969), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, Bác Hồ or simply Bác, was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam. He was also Prime Minister (1945–1955) and President (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 as well as the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.