Everyday images of Uncle Ho in the Presidential Palace
TB (according to VnExpress)•September 3, 2024 05:41
In addition to taking care of national affairs, Uncle Ho often worked with the guards to dig land to grow vegetables, raise fish, and take care of star apple trees given to him by the people of the South.
The Ho Chi Minh President Relic Site at the Presidential Palace is exhibiting many documentary photos of President Ho Chi Minh 55 years after his passing (September 2, 1969 - September 2, 2024). This is where President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked the longest, 15 years from December 19, 1954 to September 2, 1969. In the photo: President Ho Chi Minh works at House 54 - where he lived from 1954 to 1958. According to Mr. Vu Ky, his personal secretary for 24 years, when he returned to Hanoi for the second time after the resistance war against the French, President Ho did not stay at the old Governor's Palace but at an old electrician's house with three small rooms.
President Ho Chi Minh took a photo with the engineering team building the stilt house, May 1958. After four years living at House 54, President Ho moved to live and work in the stilt house opposite the fish pond. The two-story wooden house with tiled roof in the style of the stilt houses of the Viet Bac people was designed by architect Nguyen Van Ninh, former Deputy Director of the Department of Architectural Design under the Ministry of Transport and Irrigation. Construction was carried out by Group 5 of the Barracks Department, General Department of Logistics of the Vietnam People's Army.
In addition to meeting hundreds of domestic delegates from the working class, farmers, intellectuals, military, ethnic minorities, and southerners, President Ho Chi Minh also welcomed heads of state and international friends. In the photo: President Ho received a delegation of the Communist Party of China on the second floor of the stilt house, September 1960
President Ho Chi Minh and Prime Minister Pham Van Dong received the first delegation of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam to visit the North, October 1962. Living next to each other in the house, the two often ate together, walked and discussed work, according to the memoirs of secretary Vu Ky.
In addition to carrying out domestic and foreign affairs, President Ho Chi Minh, together with the Party Central Committee and the Government, set out the revolutionary resistance path towards national unification. Documentary photo recorded on December 28, 1967, President Ho Chi Minh attended the Politburo meeting of the Party Central Committee, approving the decision to launch the 1968 Tet Mau Than General Offensive and Uprising.
After work, Uncle Ho often went with the staff and officials in the Presidential Palace to dig the land to grow vegetables and increase his own production.
Uncle Ho took care of the star apple tree that the people of the South gave him. When winter came, he wove straw around the tree trunk to protect it from the cold of the North.
The fish pond between house 54 and the stilt house is where President Ho often fed the fish after work in the late afternoon, then went for a walk before coming home to eat.
Uncle Ho stood watching the guards catch a 24 kg fish in the pond, May 1969. According to the memoirs of secretary Vu Ky, during this time President Ho's health declined but he was very persistent in practicing. Mr. Ky remembered Uncle Ho's birthday on May 19, 1969, at 5:30 a.m., when the servants brought their children to congratulate him, they saw Uncle sitting at the table, throwing balls into the paper basket in the corner of the house, very persistently, very hard-working.
President Ho Chi Minh and children enjoyed performing arts on the occasion of International Children's Day, May 1969. During his 24 years as President, Uncle Ho sent letters to children almost every year.
After President Ho Chi Minh passed away, the Politburo and the Party Central Committee decided to preserve the memorial area, relics and artifacts at the Presidential Palace. In the photo, Mr. Vu Ky instructs soldiers to evacuate documents and artifacts to prevent bombing when the US bombed the North in 1972.
Army units building the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum visit the Presidential Palace relic site, 1975.
Officers of the Guard Department - who were sent to cut hair for President Ho Chi Minh, set up tools and re-enacted the act for a photo shoot, March 1976. After 55 years since President Ho Chi Minh passed away, many artifacts have been preserved in their original state: a clock stopped at 9:47, a wall calendar showing September 2, 1969... In 2009, the Ho Chi Minh relic site at the Presidential Palace was ranked as a special national relic for the first time. From the end of 1969 to the end of June 2024, this place welcomed nearly 72.9 million domestic visitors and more than 16.5 million international visitors.TB (according to VnExpress)
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