Ho Chi
Minh was the patriot and
leader of Vietnam who instilled the sense of freedom in his countrymen,
and
emancipated Vietnamese from the tyrannical rule of imperialists like
France. He
enlightened the people of Vietnam. For Vietnamese people, Ho Chi Minh
is as
great as Gandhiji is to India. He liberated his countrymen from slavery
and
oppression.
Ho
Chi Minh was born in 1890 in Vietnam. He spent his childhood in
studying and
roaming in the beauty of nature. As he grew older, he became a freedom
lover
and a promising youth. But his poverty and slavery came in his way of
progress.
These adverse circumstances were the inspiring events in the life of Ho
Chi
Minh and he hardened his resolve to do away with them.
At
that time Vietnam was a colony of France. H e did many professions but
the
theme idea of his mind was to indulge in struggle for freedom movement.
Once he
worked as a teacher, then as a cook in France. He studied the political
system
of France and about imperialism. He finally made up his mind to snatch
the
power from France and work for the progress of his country, Vietnam.
In
1917, Ho Chi Minh reached England during the First World War. After the
war, he
again came back to France and presented a charter of demands at the
Versailles
conference. The French people created a furore over it. It was a sad
part of
his life that his sacrifices and plans for his country were hardly
known to his
countrymen.
In
Paris, he worked as a laborer and suffered untold miseries for the sake
of
freedom of Vietnam. He wrote about the Vietnam problem in paper. He
also wrote
a book, 'The Crimes of French Colonialists'. In the end, Vietnam was
liberated
under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh and he became the President of the
Republic
of Vietnam.