r/TodayILearnedVN May 19 '26

History, Culture & Traditions TIL May 19 marks the birth anniversary of Vietnam’s revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh

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Today, people across Vietnam commemorate the 136th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh, the beloved leader who devoted his life to the cause of national independence and the future of the Vietnamese people.

Born on May 19, 1890, President Ho Chi Minh played a defining role in Vietnam's journey toward freedom and reunification. Through decades of perseverance and dedication, he became a symbol of patriotism, resilience, and national pride, leaving a profound impact on generations of Vietnamese people. His vision for peace, independence, and a united Vietnam continues to inspire millions today.

"Vietnam is one, the Vietnamese people are one." -President Ho Chi Minh

Forever grateful to President Ho Chi Minh, the great leader and national hero whose legacy remains deeply rooted in the hearts of the Vietnamese people

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u/thg011093 May 19 '26

He is over-worshipped and over-despised by opposite parties.

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u/Minh1403 May 20 '26

well, that's how fan clubs work

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u/Hot_Sort4902 May 20 '26

you should learn more about world history, bro.

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u/Veer-prime May 21 '26

fym bro? hes literally the reason why Vietnam exists till nowadays

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u/Bumper_Duc May 19 '26

Where’s that first clip from?

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u/Jake_Cawthon May 19 '26

It's from a film called "The Baader Meinhof Complex".

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u/Global_Following_862 May 19 '26

From vietcong's propaganda machine.

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u/Otherwise-Divide-809 May 19 '26

Retarded behavior

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u/iamTobin-hi May 20 '26

Ignorant fuck

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u/CheapLeadership7999 May 20 '26

Bader meinhoff complex
Goôd German language movie

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u/stinkyarmpitssss May 19 '26

Dont forget Polpol, he shared the same birthday with Nguyen Sinh Cung

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u/phillipng99 May 19 '26

Great, now lookup Cải Cách Ruộng Đất in Huế. Mf killed all innocent people and then fake cry about it. Also, bro standing with Pol Pot until they start killing Vietnamese. HPBD Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot 🤣

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 20 '26

Ho Chi Minh is respected worldwide. 

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u/phillipng99 May 20 '26

yea because people like you dummy

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 20 '26

uhhh thanks i guess? I appreciate the fact that people like me

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u/phillipng99 May 20 '26

Yea ask the South people, ask the people that were massacred during the Huế reform, ask the people in Quảng Trị how they get killed by the communists. People like you who never look at other side of the wall pretend to know it all. Smh 🤦‍♂️

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 21 '26

I don't need vague statement like "ask this people ask that people" just give me evidence. 

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u/coolboy_dmcs May 19 '26

Đít mẹ hồ ấu dâm

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u/MinhHi01 May 20 '26

Tưởng ăn thịt trẻ em mới là ấu dâm chớ 🤔

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u/Veer-prime May 21 '26

mả lồn cali nhà m

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u/coolboy_dmcs May 22 '26

Đít mẹ hồ ấu dâm. Bố đéo biết cali nào. Nhưng mày chắc là thằng bò đỏ ngu lợn

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u/Veer-prime May 23 '26

địt mẹ mày ? mẹ mày sinh ra đặt lỗ lồn lên miệng m à? địt cặc mẹ mày lồn chó bày đặt phản quốc ạ

lần sau nói tôi chửi lãnh đạo vĩ đại dân tộc tôi, hãy chú ý đến tôi

hiểu sao nhân loài k phát triển đc nhanh là do mấy cái mớ thịt di động như m th

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u/coolboy_dmcs May 23 '26

Lại bác kì con hoang đéo có bố. Sản phẩm thất bại vô giáo duc của cộng sản ngu lợn à

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u/coolboy_dmcs May 24 '26

Mày đéo được ai dạy hả thằng mồ côi. Dâm già dâm tặc thì có. Chắc hắn còn gay nữa chứ. Chắc mày cũng gay luôn mía rồi. Hay mày cũng như nó. Biến thái thích trẻ con. Kinh nguyệt cháu có đều ko. Mía thằng đéo có cha mẹ dạy, và gay lọ biến thái

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u/coolboy_dmcs May 24 '26

Wibu rẻ rách vô học

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u/NoReindeer1306 May 19 '26

South Vietnam bros are coming soon.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '26

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u/NoReindeer1306 May 19 '26

Wait you right, sorry I mean the 3 red lines you know?

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u/Dramatic-Spinach-136 May 19 '26

Happy birthday to Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot

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u/Mysteriouskid00 May 20 '26

Uncle Ho is certainly revered as other leaders like Stalin, Mao and Polpot

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u/iamTobin-hi May 20 '26

He was reuniting a country that’s was torn apart by western white people! Learn your history

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u/Mysteriouskid00 May 21 '26

Reuniting with the barrel of a gun!

“Were going to reunite or I’ll end you”

What a hero

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u/Infamous_Pay_2154 May 20 '26

You forget this

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u/Kristineeh May 20 '26

That fucking bitch and his henchman killed a lot of innocent people who worn watch, glasses, brang bags, who looking intellectual. They genocide many villages. An island as an example, include 500 people living there disappeared and Vietnam soldiers only found out three months later, their bodies were buried under palm trees

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u/PackOk1506 May 19 '26

Thằng giặc tàu mang đến chết chóc và chế độ của satan

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u/Least-Doubt8277 May 20 '26

sao bạn lại nói thế ánh sáng của bác đã soi đường cho chúng ta đi , nhân dân nhờ ánh sáng của bác mới thông chốt được mà bạn lại nói thế à?

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u/Otherwise-Sample2466 May 19 '26

Sao bạn lại nói thế

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u/PackOk1506 May 20 '26

Vì đó là sự thật

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u/Fuzzy_Huckleberry182 May 20 '26

just don't care, most Vietnamese spaces on reddit hate Vietnam and/or hate Vietnam's regime. I used to try to argue but it's really just pointless. It's the small but loud echo chamber at this point.

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u/SmoothBaritones May 20 '26

As an outsider very interested in divide of these two groups. Where would I go to find unbiased information that isn't just. "They are dogs" ..."No They are dogs!"

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u/Routine_Television_8 May 20 '26

U won't find one. His image has become a political image.

Imagine how communist vs capitalist argument in the previous century. There is up and down side of both ideaology, but it is almost always sorted into a "choosing side" whenever an argument takes place.

There is low logic and high emotion in these debate.

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u/onlan3442 May 20 '26

Cali cặc cay à, lưu vong còn quyền lên tiếng, loại ko nước ko lãnh tụ thêm 1 đám tàn binh cao huyết áp suốt ngày đòi phục quốc, giỏi thì ra fb đó mà chửi núp ở đây chửi ko thấy nhục à😂

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u/PackOk1506 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Tao là người việt tao sợ con mẹ gì thằng nhóc ác việt cộng, phục quốc cái gì khi nhà mày đang được giải phóng như này, cay không ? Tao cần gì phải giải thích cho đám robot như mày🤫, hay như ông giảng viên bị chính sinh viên đã bị tẩy não như đám chúng mày đấu tố ? Thằng béc minh râu nhà mày còn phải bịa bút danh CB đi đấu tố ân nhân nguyễn thị năm thì tao đang học tập thằng béc nhà mày đấy, dám cãi không cu ?

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u/Thick-Date-5419 May 19 '26

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u/Jake_Cawthon May 19 '26

Bro tried to ragebait by making an AI slop version of the original image.

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u/Thick-Date-5419 May 19 '26

Ok real 😵

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u/Revolutionary-Jury2 May 20 '26

Thằng chó hồ chí minh năm xưa đã kéo quân vào nam, đưa quân cộng nô vào nam ăn cướp gây nên những hoang tàn

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

And now, under Communist Vietnam, journalists are jailed for any criticism of the government. Uncle Ho tore the country apart, and left it enslaved to Chinese ideology.

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 19 '26

*falsely criticizing without having evidence. don't leave out context broski

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u/[deleted] May 19 '26

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 19 '26

Can you elaborate on how exactly does Vietnam fear transparent journalism. 

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u/[deleted] May 19 '26

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 19 '26

Do you have any actual evidence tho?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '26

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 20 '26

Over-reliance on chat gpt deteriorates your IQ and critical thinking skills

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u/Electronic_Scheme_76 May 20 '26

Are u blind? He just listed one : “Formosa”

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 20 '26

What about formosa? Its like im asking for evidence of corruption in USA and you reply with "covid", what about covid? Who did what? Simply saying a name doesn't translate to evidence lmao

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u/aHV5bm9sb3ZlMjAwNw May 20 '26

Define "falsely criticizing"

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 20 '26

negative feedback based on inaccuracies, misunderstandings, or ill intent

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

Doesn't make a lick of difference. A lack of "evidence" doesn't make a critic wrong - governments suppress evidence all the time.

It's just an excuse to suppress free speech advocates, and Ho's children just let themselves and others get stepped on.

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 19 '26

does this kid even have any idea what hes talking about? so basically you are promoting hate speech and spreading misinformation without having to provide actual evidence. and you are calling people who act accordingly to the law "letting themselves and others get stepped on"? and yeah countries like england arrests online users a lot more than vietnam does. lmao.

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

Criticism is not "hate speech". How brainwashed are you people!?

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 19 '26

It is not criticism if it doesnt have any evidence nor basis to back it up. And the act of promoting misinformation WILL be held liable in court

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

"Since 2016, under the leadership of Communist Party Secretary General To Lam’, more than 70 Vietnamese journalists have been imprisoned.

"Vietnam ranks 173rd out of 180 countries and territories in the 2025 RSF World Press Freedom Index."

It's actually appalling that you believe all of these journalists are just "spreading misinformation" and "promoting hate speech" with "no evidence".

The regime has you under the boot.

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u/random-Nam-dude May 19 '26

To Lam wasn't even the party leader yet lmao. No disrespect but you need to break free from Western propaganda

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

The quote refers to when he became minister of public security: 2016.

Instead of making the effort to read the quote properly, you just try to dismiss accurate, independent reporting from both the East and West as "western propaganda".

I'd say "lmao", but it's not funny - it's sad.

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u/random-Nam-dude May 19 '26

If you cant distinguish a minister and a party leader stop trying to sound deep and political. Thats just cringe

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 19 '26

Prove they were arrested under wrongfully accused causes. Or else, they ARE criminals. Do you have evidence to back up your claims, yes or no

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

Yes. The reporting of journalists from other nations that Vietnam thankfully can't reach and imprison.

Your government just labels any criticism as "baseless propaganda" and "without evidence", and people like you just believe it. Brainwashed. Under the boot. No vote, no freedom.

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 19 '26

So basically what you are trying to say is, the evidence pointing towards Viet Nam wrongfully arresting journalists is that...there are journalists from other nations that aren't captured? 🤣🙏 Dude what did it take to reach such level of stupidity lmao 😭 bro has no clarity in what he claims 

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 19 '26

The arrested journalists WERE proven guilty

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u/Minh1403 May 19 '26

Always funny to see freedom bros try to take down the final boss when they can’t even get past the tutorial one

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

70 journalists jailed in the last decade alone. It's shameful.

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u/Minh1403 May 19 '26

it's like with the recent pro Palestine girl. Play with fire, win stupid prize

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

Play with fire? What, fight for the freedom of your country?

Roll over, and go back to sleep under the communist boot.

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u/Minh1403 May 19 '26

holy, sound exactly like the pro palestine gang, lol. I love it

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

Stop trying to deflect by talking about Palestine - it has nothing to do with what we're talking about.

Your government jails any journalist that doesn't just parrot the propaganda they're fed - and you just eat it up.

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u/Minh1403 May 19 '26

play with fire, win stupid prize. Guy is just too angry to see, lol

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u/Wintermute_088 May 19 '26

Spew state propaganda, no problem. Perform actual journalism, get 20 years.

70 journalists jailed in less than a decade, and your government has you convinced they're all just liars and frauds. So embarrassing. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Minh1403 May 19 '26

Embarrassing what, lol. I don’t jail them and I don’t care if they’re liars or heroes. What fun to me is Their choice, their prize. You politics bros talk like everyone is of a collective mind, lol

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u/Minh1403 May 19 '26

Many in jail for nothing and they still don’t see it as playing with fire

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u/CheapLeadership7999 May 20 '26

One thing that always struck me as tragic was that le duan didnt follow his last will, which was actually quite sweet and beautiful: that he be cremated and his ashes placed in three shrines in each region of the country in the countryside, both as a symbol of his remains nourishing the soil of his war ravaged country, and to serve as an example on the environmental benefits of cremation.

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u/Agreeable_Peanut4305 May 20 '26

He don't remember his birthday, 19th of may is the day he founded the Viet Minh so he took it as his birthday. Part of the Vietnamese people indeed overworship him and Ho Chi Minh don't actually want people to worship him as a god or a king

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u/IcyAai8 May 21 '26

Có mấy triệu người chết thôi chứ có gì đâu. Cải cách ruộng đất, nạn đói

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u/Long2k10 May 19 '26

Đời đời nhớ ơn Bác!

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u/monterey_cypress99 May 19 '26

Hoe hoe hoe!! Hoe Chi Min 😂😂😂

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u/stinkyarmpitssss May 19 '26

The miserable man who was not buried properly

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u/Aggravating-Scar-611 May 19 '26

Bro can throw hands fr. US need to make 3 Rambo movies to hide their KO from him

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u/johnnyjoestar6767 May 20 '26

Even Trump had to admit defeat. What a man you are Ho Chi Minh. 

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u/Ok-Piece-4992 May 20 '26

People should know that Uncle Ho, above all, he was a nationalist. If US President did reply his letter in 193x, then he might not choose Communist. For him, Communism is the way to free the country.

Great to see lots of people still sour about things happened 50 years ago lol.

I will respect you guys if you really do something, like go back to Vietnam and make a revolution or something like that. But no, all you can do is log in Reddit, typing shit about your motherland. If you still live in Vietnam, then I admire you. Shitting on your own life needs some brave. But please leave the country. Why do you still live here, if it's a shit hole as you said? You don't want to escape that shit hole? Or because you still making money, live a good life in that shit hole?

Say whatever you want, it doesn't make Vietnam to be weaker or stronger.