From December 25-30, 1920, patriotic young man Nguyen Ai Quoc (the name of President Ho Chi Minh during his revolutionary activities in France) attended the 18th Congress of the French Socialist Party in Tours city as an Indochina delegate. Nguyen Ai Quoc supported Lenin's thesis on nations and colonial issues; endorsed the establishment of the French Communist Party and became one of the founders of the French Communist Party and also the first communist of the Vietnamese nation.
Nguyen Ai Quoc and the people of Moscow (Russia) on the hill of Chim Se, during the time of attending the 5th International Congress of Communists (June 17th - July 8th, 1924).
President Ho Chi Minh (center) and General Vo Nguyen Giap (leftmost) with the staff of the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), made plans to coordinate in 1954.
President Ho Chi Minh’s 4-month-long visit to France (May 31st - October 20th, 1946) at the invitation of the French Government as the head of state of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, was one of the most important external activities of the Vietnamese Government in 1945-1946 to save peace while the French colonialists were determined to invade Vietnam once again. In the photo: French Prime Minister Georges Bidault welcomed President Ho Chi Minh at the Prime Minister's Palace on July 2nd, 1946.
President Ho Chi Minh talked with Lao Prince Souphanouvong in Vietnam in 1951.
President Ho Chi Minh received a delegation from the French peace movement to visit Vietnam (March 15th, 1955).
The reception for President Ho Chi Minh at Novosibirsk Airport, July 10th, 1955, opening the official visit to the Soviet Union.
President Ho Chi Minh and Mongolia President Iu. Sedenban attended the meeting of the people of the capital Ulanbato welcoming him to the friendship visit to Mongolia in July 1955.
Chinese President Mao Zedong welcomed President Ho Chi Minh in a friendship visit to China at Beijing Airport on June 25th, 1955.
President Ho Chi Minh received Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Laos, to visit Vietnam (August 28th, 1956).
President Ho Chi Minh received the British Parliamentary Delegation visiting Vietnam (May 4th, 1957).
President Ho Chi Minh met with President Antonín Zápotocký in Prague during a friendship visit to Czechoslovakia (July 17th, 1957).
President Ho Chi Minh spoke to more than 30,000 workers of Vysočina Industrial Park during a Czechoslovakia visit (July 17th, 1957).
President Ho Chi Minh visited and talked with workers of a tractor factory in Bucharest during a friendship visit to Romania (July 1957).
The welcoming ceremony for President Ho Chi Minh to visit Poland, at Varsava airport (July 21st, 1957).
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