How Ho Chi Minh spent his days while he was in Paris. That is what I consider someone who had a genuine love for his people and country. He did not shy away from his own people from the very beginning; he did not hobnob with the French elite, partying and learning to be a Parisian. .................... The text below is Copy and Paste from the website below. Yes Copy & Paste indeed. So what? 1917 Ho moved to Paris during the height of World War I. He adopted the name NGUYEN Ai Quoc (“Nguyen the Patriot”) and became involved in leftist and anti- colonial activism. 1919 Ho worked to found the Association for Annamite Patriots, an organization composed of Vietnamese nationals living in France who opposed the French colonial occupation of Vietnam. He authored a petition demanding the end of the French colonial exploitation of Vietnam, which he attempted to present to the world powers at the Versailles Peace Conference held in the aftermath of World War I. His petition was never officially recognized, but his effort was well known in Vietnam. 1920 Ho became a founding member of the newly created French Communist Party. 1922 Ho founded the journal Le Paria (The Pariah), which served as a venue for anti- colonial activists to express and disseminate their views about the French colonial regime. 1923 Ho traveled to Russia for the first time. After subsequent visits, he became acquainted with the most influential Soviet leaders including Nikolai BUKHARIN, Leon TROTSKY, and Joseph STALIN. While in Russia, Ho was trained as an agent of the Comintern*. He studied the thought of Marx and Lenin as well as organizational and revolutionary techniques. *Founded in 1919 by Vladimir Ilyich LENIN in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Comintern was dedicated to organizing an international socialist movement. Comintern agents were deployed throughout the world, promoting revolution, socialism, and organizing communist branch organizations abroad. 1925 Ho traveled to China where he worked closely with Mikhail BORODIN, a fellow Comintern agent, to foment socialist revolution in China. While in China, Ho formed the Thanh Nien Cach Menh Dong Chi Hoi (“Revolutionary Youth League”), later known simply as Thanh Nien (“Youth”), an organization composed of Vietnamese exiles living in China and dedicated to revolution in Vietnam. As the Than Nien steadily grew in size, the organization began to establish connections with other Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary groups residing in Vietnam. Thanh Nien also published the revolutionary journal Than Nien, which was secretly distributed throughout Southeast Asia. 1927 Ho was forced to leave China after CHIANG Kai-shek, the leader of the Nationalist Party (Guomindang), instituted a vicious crackdown on left-wing radicals, imprisoning and executing hundreds of communists and labor activists. Ho fled to the Soviet Union. He spent the next few years based in Russia, but made frequent trips to China to recruit members for Thanh Nien. 1930 In Hong Kong, Ho founded the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), later renamed the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP). 1931 Ho was arrested in Hong Kong by British authorities for his involvement in revolutionary activities and was imprisoned for two years. After he was released, Ho returned to Moscow where he would remain until 1938. 1938 Ho traveled to China to serve as a military advisor for the Chinese Communist Party after the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. The Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang, previously entangled in civil war, had agreed to an armistice until the Japanese were defeated. 1940 German forces invaded France. Japanese forces moved into Vietnam. French colonial authorities agreed to allow Japanese occupation under the condition that the French colonial administration not be dismantled. columbia.edu/cu/weai/exeas/asian-revolutions/pdf/ho-chi-minh-timeline.pdf
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