Ho Chi Minh, born on 19 May 1890, in Hoang Tru, Vietnam, French
Indochina, was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party (1930) and its successor,
the Viet-Minh (1941), and president from 1945 to 1969 of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). As the leader of the Vietnamese
nationalist movement for nearly three decades, Ho was one of the prime movers
of the post-World War II anti-colonial movement in Asia and one of the most
influential communist leaders of the 20th century.
