The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is a large memorial to the Vietnamese leader. It is located in Ba Ðình Square in Hanoi and was modeled after Lenin's Mausoleum. Ho Chi Minh's body is preserved here and the mausoleum is open for people to come and pay their respects.
"Ho Chi Minh (May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Communist, Marxist-Leninist Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1946–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). Ho led the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. He led the North Vietnamese in the Vietnam War until his death; six years later, the war ended with a North Vietnamese victory, and Vietnamese unification followed. He was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while the former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor."
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De très belles photos et la baie d'Halong est toujours aussi séduisante.
Bonjour de France.
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