With his lieutenants Vo Nguyen Giap and Pham Van Dong, Ho returned to Vietnam in January 1941 and organized the Viet Minh, or League for the Independence of Vietnam. Around this time, he began to use the name Ho Chi Minh (roughly translated as “ Bringer of Light”). When Germany defeated France in 1940, during World War II, Ho saw it as an opportunity for the Vietnamese nationalist cause.
Ho Chi Minh: Founding of the Viet Minh and North Vietnam He soon began recruiting members of a Vietnamese nationalist movement that would form the basis of the Indochinese Communist Party (founded in Hong Kong in 1930) and traveled the world, including Brussels, Paris and Siam (now Thailand), where he worked as a representative of the Communist International organization. Inspired by the success of Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution, he joined the new French Communist Party in 1920 and traveled to Moscow three years later.
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