New work Ho Chi Minh - National hero and his contemporary significance

The book is another symbol of the sincere respect for Uncle Ho of a teacher, researcher, writer, poet, who has devoted an important part of his life to studying Ho Chi Minh's career in many aspects and fields: culture, ethics, literature, art, journalism, international...

More than 45 years ago, in September 1969, our people from the North to the South, along with friends around the world, sadly said goodbye to Uncle Ho as he left to "meet Karl Marx, Lenin and other revolutionary elders" (Will). Comrade Le Duan, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, read the eulogy: "President Ho has passed away! But he left us an extremely precious legacy. That is the Ho Chi Minh era, the most brilliant era in the glorious history of the nation."

How was the vision of President Ho Chi Minh formed and expressed in practice, leading to success and bringing many miracles to a glorious period of struggle of the Vietnamese people after World War II? Professor Ha Minh Duc approached the big issue with a profound and systematic knowledge, the ability to research, select, analyze sharply, and synthesize scientific documents from many sources, on that basis presenting his feelings and explaining a series of issues.

The research work consists of three parts arranged in chronological order. Starting with the 30-year journey of living and working abroad, from the day the young man Nguyen Tat Thanh boarded an ocean liner as a kitchen assistant to find a way to save the country, in 1911. Each chapter of the book is devoted to a place where Uncle Ho lived, first of all the United States; then from the United States to England to find a stable job to learn the language and see with his own eyes a colonial country that was an ally and competitor of French colonialism in the struggle for colonies; in France, he stayed longer, opening his life of revolutionary activities. Next is the time in the Soviet Union, where Nguyen Ai Quoc truly grew up; and finally the years working in China "to be closer to the Fatherland", according to his suggestion.

The trips back and forth to many countries during the thirty-year journey brought Nguyen Ai Quoc much experience and knowledge, from which formed the height of the era of a great man.

Returning to the country to lead the Vietnamese revolution - Part II of the book mentions an extremely important period in his life and the history of the Vietnamese people. Uncle Ho crossed the border from China to the mountainous region of Cao Bang to build a base, experienced countless hardships, was close to death many times due to enemy plots and fell ill in the deep forest with erratic weather, led the country to many achievements, until the day he left forever. He had not yet seen the unification of the country. However, our people and many international friends, including many Americans, were sure that the day of independence and unification of Vietnam was approaching, because President Ho Chi Minh left behind a vision and many excellent students followed in his footsteps.

The work devotes the final part as a World forum to honor and praise Ho Chi Minh. In fact, this is the conclusion, explaining many major issues, such as Ho Chi Minh's ideology and philosophy, his dialectical revolutionary thinking, imbued with national and contemporary identity; his noble humanism, frugal life, cultural height and wisdom.

The book has an Appendix that selects twelve articles from hundreds of articles and books by famous names from many corners of the world admiring and honoring Uncle Ho - of course, it cannot lack the Resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) solemnly honoring Ho Chi Minh - National Hero, World Cultural Celebrity (1990).

Turning the last page of the thick book, we seem to see before our eyes the image of Ho Chi Minh, a young tree deeply rooted in the soil rich in the tradition of struggle and national culture, going through storms and rains, still quickly sprouting, receiving the quintessence of world culture, developing luxuriant branches and leaves to become a giant tree, dedicating his entire life to the nation and humanity, so that in the end from the world a lotus flower blooms and is sent back to honor the outstanding talent of the country of Vietnam.

The height of President Ho Chi Minh is the crystallization of his travels through thirty countries as a hired laborer or head of state. The height of inheriting the spirit and selectively approaching the path taken by previous generations of patriots. The height of an international politician fluent in many foreign languages, the leader of a country with thousands of years of civilization.

Uncle Ho was an international activist, but he was first and foremost a Vietnamese more than any other Vietnamese (Pham Van Dong), an intelligent, elegant politician with a completely Vietnamese personality, demeanor, and behavior.

Ho Chi Minh's height is the height of a life in which he never thought of personal interests for a single minute, devoted himself to his country, to his people, and to all oppressed people, workers, wherever they lived; his whole life was devoted to one goal: independence, freedom of the nation, happiness of the people.

Professor Ha Minh Duc approaches and handles the topic in his own way. Based on consulting many sources of documents from Vietnamese researchers, and more abundantly, from many famous foreign scholars from different cultures, political views and beliefs that are different from ours, they finally meet at the end point: admiration, praise and honor of President Ho Chi Minh. From that practical background, the author presents and explains his feelings. Sometimes he uses the opposite method, stating his personal opinion and then developing and proving it with many sources of documents. Perhaps these are the factors, and at the same time the secret, that make the work Ho Chi Minh - National Hero and His Timely Vision a work with high scientific content, useful and inspiring, helping readers who are interested to find here many paths to research more deeply this content and other aspects.

The scope of Ho Chi Minh's era and the connotation of the Ho Chi Minh era are a vast and noble field. This reading does not discuss the scientific and cultural content of Professor Ha Minh Duc's work. With respect to the People's Teacher who is now eighty years old but still diligently researching and creating, continuously presenting many good scientific works or compositions, we boldly introduce this to readers and consider it a scientific work with many suggestive features.