“Though frontiers and mountains stand between us, Proletarians of the whole world come together as one family.”

— Ho Chi Minh

Third National Congress of the Vietnam Workers' Party (Sept. 9, 1960)
Ho Chi Minh on Revolution, Selected Writings, 1920-66
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Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam 1890–1969

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