Ho Chi Minh

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Born Nguyen Tat Thanh in 1890, Ho left Vietnam as a youth and traveled the world before moving to Paris in 1917. He joined the French Communist Party and founded the Communist Party in Hong Kong in 1930, but did not return to Vietnam until 1941 when he created the Vietminh and adopted his famous name Ho Chi Minh -- He Who Enlightens. Ho fought the French for nine years before serving as president of North Vietnam from 1945 until his death in 1969.

Source:
Karnow, Stanley; "Vietnam: A History"

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