PANO – Each country and each nation in the world has their own symbol of belief. The symbolized belief promotes and gathers national spiritual strength, sentiment and sacred authentication and serves as the most durable and firmest support for the nation to exist and develop. Any interference in a nation’s symbol of belief is to provoke millions of people’s sacred and profound sentiment. Therefore, anyone who tries to distort information about President Ho Chi Minh will never be accepted by the Vietnamese people.
Uncle Ho – Vietnamese national symbol of belief
Over the past thousands of years, the Vietnamese people have always been grateful to their national founders, great contributors and heroes. It can be said that Vietnamese people always remember the contributions of national founders and heroes has become one of the good cultural features of the Vietnamese people.
After many years studying, historical, cultural and military researchers have reached an agreement, proposing the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to erect monuments to commemorate 13 outstanding historical persons in Vietnam’s history of national construction and defense, along with the legendary national ancestor, Hung Kings. The 13 historical persons include Hai Ba Trung (Trung sisters), Ly Nam De, Ngo Quyen, Dinh Bo Linh, Le Hoan, Ly Cong Uan, Ly Thuong Kiet, Tran Nhan Tong, Tran Hung Dao, Nguyen Hue (King Quang Trung) and Ho Chi Minh. They all have met the 3 criteria: leading the nation in rising up against foreign invaders and gaining national independence; being an outstanding leader of the nation at a period of time and making a great contribution to the nation and leading the nation to great achievements in national construction and defense; and widely recognized as a brilliant political cultural and military man.
In fact, all the 14 figures have, for long time, been worshipped by the Vietnamese, and more than 14,000 monuments and temples worshipping them are located across the country.
Regarding President Ho Chi Minh, over 600 relic, memorial sites and 103 monuments have so far been built in 30 provinces and cities of the country, according to official statistics.
The statistics agency also releases that most population worship Hung Kings, General Tran Quoc Tuan and President Ho Chi Minh. Explaining the question od why they have widely been worshipped, researchers believe that Hung Kings were the founder of the nation in the primitive time, while General Tran Quoc Tuan marked a glorious milestone in national history by leading the Vietnamese people in defeating Mongol invasions three times in the 8th century, and President Ho Chi Minh was the national hero and a world cultural man of the 20th century; he was also the founder and trainer of the Vietnam Communist Party, the founder of the independent Vietnam and the beloved father of the Vietnamese armed forces; he was the one who dedicated all his life to national liberation and brought freedom, prosperity and happiness to the Vietnamese people.
History is objective and people are the just. In human history, a number of great persons have been considered “Saint” for their great contributions to human beings or at least to a community. Regarding President Ho Chi Minh, when alive, he devoted all his life, wished and did all the good to the country and people. Well understanding his huge contribution and dedication to the country, Vietnamese people all love him, respect him and regard him as the beloved father of the nation, other than deify him.
Ho Chi Minh – a genius of the era
The Vietnamese people’s respect to Uncle Ho is a natural sentiment, coming from their hearts since He has brightened up our country and nation. His name has gone far beyond the Vietnam’s border and become a symbol of the revolutionary patriot, struggling for national independence and freedom. He has become a great person in the world’s history.
32 years ago, after collecting opinions from some 300 scientist across the world, a dictionary named “The 20th Century Culture” was completed and released in 1983 by the US publishing house of Harper and Row. There is an entry about Ho Chi Minh’s life and career in the dictionary. Our Uncle Ho is listed as a world’s cultural man as the 300 scientists shared the view that Ho Chi Minh was the one who initiated and heightened the banner of the national liberation struggle against colonialism, and that he was the great leader in the international anti-colonist struggle, who was already recognized and respected by Asian people and the Third World.
In late December 1999, when human beings were to welcome the 21st century, The Times and CBS announced the list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, as the result of a survey of 7 million people across the world. Our Uncle Ho was included to the list. Our Uncle Ho was also selected by The Times as one among the 20 most charismatic leaders and revolutionaries in the world in the 20th century.
In the 24th plenary session in Paris from October 20th 1987 to November 20th, UNESCO discussed, examined and passed the Resolution on celebrating the 100th birth anniversary of Ho Chi Minh. As of 1987, only 21 historical brilliant persons in the world had been recognized by UNESCO as the people who had made great contribution to human civilization and progress. On May 19th, 1990, our Uncle Ho was officially honored by UNESCO as hero of national liberation and preeminent cultural man. The UNESCO resolution underlined that Ho Chi Minh was a bright symbol of the worldwide national liberation movement, who dedicated his whole life to the Vietnamese national liberation cause, contributing to the common struggle of nations for peace, national independence, democracy and social progress. It also stated that Ho Chi Minh’s ideal embodied the desire of nations to asserting their cultural identities, and promoted mutual understandings among nations. UNESCO also suggested its 150 member nations combined the celebration of Ho Chi Minh’s 100th birthday with activities to commemorate the late outstanding Vietnamese leader so as all people could learn his great thought and his contribution to the Vietnamese national liberation cause and international national liberation movement.
It was not by chance when President Ho Chi Minh was highly valued and respected by people around the world. In 1923 at the first meeting with Nguyen Ai Quoc (a name of President Ho Chi Minh), Soviet poet OxipMandenxtam realized the young Vietnamese man as a great character, saying that Nguyen Ai Quoc generated a culture, which was not an European one but probably a future culture. On September 2nd 1969, when he heard the news about President Ho Chi Minh’s death, Mao Zedong sent condolences, saying that Ho Chi Minh’s heart covered the entire country; Ho Chi Minh was the only hero in history; he was a star brighter than the sun and the moon; he was the greatest ever man in both Asia and Europe. Ho Chi Minh – eternal source of encouragement
Former Cuban President Phidel Castro said, Ho Chi Minh was a very special man, he never died in people’s heart, and he was an internal source of encouragement.
What is more, official statistics show that as many as 60 million people, including 7 million foreigners from 160 countries and territories, visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum from 1969 to 2014. Many international organizations and leaders of countries across the world visited the mausoleum and paid respect to President Ho Chi Minh during the period.
Not only Vietnamese people but also other nations have good feelings and respect President Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh has been named to streets, schools, squares and parks in many countries across the world, and 15 countries, including Russia, France, Britain, Thailand and Mexico, have erected monuments of Ho Chi Minh.
The above exemplary figures demonstrate how deeply Vietnamese people love their “Father”, and how deeply international friends respect President Ho Chi Minh.
In fact, Vietnamese people are also proud that the nation has President Ho Chi Minh. To deserve to be his offspring, Vietnamese people have been following President Ho Chi Minh’s ideal in building and defending the country, over the past years. Indeed, President Ho Chi Minh always serves as a guiding star and a great national leader for Vietnamese people in their national liberation wars in the past, and as an eternal source of encouragement for the Vietnamese people head for peace, prosperity and happiness at present and in the future.
Written by Thien VanTranslated by Thu Nguyen
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