HCM - The one of greatest leader in the world and Vietnam.

He contributed his whole life to struggle for peace and independence of Vietnam country. He was born on May 19, 1890 at Kim Lien village, Nam Dan district, Nghe An Province . His original name was either Nguyen Sinh Cung or Nguyen Tat Thanh and he was educated in Hue and apprenticed to a technical institute in Saigon. He left for Europe in 1911 and was in England when World War I began. After the war he moved to Paris and was active in socialist organizations into the 1920s. He visited the Soviet Union to study revolutionary tactics and was sent to China to spread communism throughout Asia; he founded the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and spent the rest of the decade living in China and the Soviet Union. During World War II he was in Vietnam, where he organized the League for the Independence of Vietnam, called the Viet Minh. He was jailed briefly from 1942 to 1943 by the anti-communist Nationalist Chinese, during which time he took the name Ho Chi Minh . After World War II Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam with himself as president. He led the Viet Minh through eight years of underground resistance against French colonial forces from 1946 to 1954, then turned to guerilla warfare against the anti-communist government in South Vietnam. By the time the United States became involved in the fight against the Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh was in failing health and not as active in directing his forces. He was, however, "Uncle Ho," the symbol of the communists' willingness to sacrifice and to endure a war of attrition. He died in 1969, six years before the U.S. withdrew from South Vietnam. In his lifetime, President Ho had travelled far and wide to meet people and listen to their opinions. Although he had a great prestige and attraction, Ho Chi Minh always regarded himself as a loyal and dedicated servant of the people