Exhibition highlights President Ho’s role in patriotic movements
More than 200 documents and objects on President Ho Chi Minh’s role in initiating and organising patriotic emulation movements are on display at an exhibition that opened at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi on June 7.
At the opening ceremony of the exhibition (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - More than 200 documents and objects on President Ho Chi Minh’srole in initiating and organising patriotic emulation movements are on displayat an exhibition that opened at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi on June 7.
Theexhibition is held on the occasion of the 128th birth anniversary ofPresident Ho Chi Minh (May 19) and 70 years since he called for patrioticemulation (June 11).
Theexhibits recall emulation movements between 1945 and 1954, socialism buildingin the northern region and struggle for liberation in the southern region andnational reunification from 1954-1975, and patriotic emulation movements from1975 until now.
Sevendecades ago, in the spring of 1948, the country was struggling as it waged itsresistance war against the French. To encourage the nation to contribute to thewar, President Ho Chi Minh made an appeal for patriotic emulation on June 11,1948.
Opening the appeal he wrote: “The purpose of patriotic emulation is to eliminatepoverty and hunger and illiteracy and foreign aggressors. It means our entirepeople have enough rice to eat and clothing to wear. The entire population willknow how to read and to write. The soldiers will have enough food and weaponsto defeat the foreign aggressors. These are aimed to unite the entire nation.Thus we will have an independent nation, free civil rights and happy welfare ofthe people."
Seventy years have passed, but the appeal he made in June 1948 as the countryfought to defeat the French while building a stable future, always promoteswork emulation of every Vietnamese .-VNA
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At the opening ceremony of the exhibition (Source: VNA)
