Ho Chi Minh was born into a patriotic Confucian family and grew up in a locality with a heroic tradition of fighting against foreign invaders. Living in a situation where the country was submerged under French colonial rule, in his childhood and youth, Ho Chi Minh witnessed the suffering of his compatriots and anti-colonial struggles, Ho Chi Minh soon had the will to expel the colonialists, gain independence for the country, and bring freedom and happiness to the compatriots.

With that will and determination, in June 1911, Ho Chi Minh left the country to go to the West to find a way to liberate the nation.

On June 3, 1911, Nguyen Tat Thanh received an employee card to board the ship Amiran Latus Trêvin with the name Van Ba. Two days later, on June 5, 1911, the ship left Nha Rong port for France.

From 1912 to 1917, under the name of Nguyen Tat Thanh, Ho Chi Minh traveled to many countries in Asia, Europe, America and Africa, living in harmony with the working people. Through practice, Ho Chi Minh deeply sympathized with the miserable life of the working people and the colonial peoples as well as their spiritual aspirations. Ho Chi Minh soon realized that the Vietnamese people's struggle for national liberation was a part of the common struggle of the world's people and actively worked to unite people of all nations in the struggle. gain independence and freedom.

At the end of 1917, Ho Chi Minh returned from England to France, active in the overseas Vietnamese movement and the French workers' movement.

In 1919, taking the name Nguyen Ai Quoc, on behalf of the Vietnamese patriots in France, Ho Chi Minh sent to the Versailles Conference a claim demanding freedom for the Vietnamese people and also the right to freedom. for the peoples of the colonial countries.

Under the influence of the Russian October Revolution of 1917 and Lenin's Thesis on National and Colonial Issues, in December 1920, Nguyen Ai Quoc attended the 18th Congress of the French Socialist Party and voted in favor of the Party. joined the III International (Comintern), becoming one of the founders of the French Communist Party. From a patriot to a communist, Ho Chi Minh affirmed: "In order to save the country and liberate the nation, there is no other way than the proletarian revolution."

In 1921, along with a number of patriots of the French colonies, Nguyen Ai Quoc participated in the founding of the Union of Colonial Peoples. In April 1922, the Association published the newspaper "Le Paria" in order to unite, organize and guide the national liberation struggle movement in colonial countries. Many articles by Nguyen Ai Quoc have been included in the work "Judgment of French Colonialism", published in Paris in 1925. This is a research work on the nature of colonialism, contributing to awakening. and encouraged the peoples of the colonies to stand up for self-liberation.

In June 1923, Nguyen Ai Quoc moved from France to the Soviet Union to work at the Communist International. In October 1923, at the first International Conference of Farmers, Nguyen Ai Quoc was elected to the International Council of Peasants and was the only delegate of colonial farmers to be elected to the Presidium of the Council. Then attended the 5th Communist International Congress, the 4th International Youth Congress, and the Red Union International Congress. At the congress, Nguyen Ai Quoc persistently defended and developed the ideas of V.I. Lenin on national and colonial issues, directed the attention of the Communist International to the national liberation movement.

In November 1924, as a member of the Communist International's Oriental Committee and a member of the Presidium of the Peasants' International, Nguyen Ai Quoc went to Guangzhou (China). In Guangzhou, Nguyen Ai Quoc worked in the Borodin advisory group of the Soviet Government next to the Government of Ton Dat Tien.

In 1925, Nguyen Ai Quoc founded the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, directly opened a training course to train revolutionary cadres, and published the weekly newspaper "Youth", the first revolutionary newspaper in Vietnam to spread the principles of democracy. Marxism-Leninism to Vietnam, preparing for the establishment of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Nguyen Ai Quoc's lectures at the training classes were collected and printed into the book "Duong Khach Menh" - an important theoretical document that laid the ideological basis for the Vietnamese revolutionary line.

In May 1927, Nguyen Ai Quoc left Guangzhou, went to Moscow (USSR), then to Berlin (Germany), to Brussels (Belgium), to attend the expanded session of the General Assembly of the Confederation of Anti-imperialist War. then go to Italy and from here to Asia.

From July 1928 to November 1929, Nguyen Ai Quoc was active in the overseas Vietnamese patriotic movement in Siam (Thailand), continuing to prepare for the birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

In February 1930, Nguyen Ai Quoc chaired the Party Founding Conference held in Kowloon, Hong Kong (China). The Conference approved the Brief Policies, Brief Strategy, and Brief Statutes of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the vanguard of the working class and the entire Vietnamese nation.

In June 1931, Nguyen Ai Quoc was arrested by British authorities in Hong Kong. In early 1933, Nguyen Ai Quoc was freed.

From 1934 to 1938, Nguyen Ai Quoc studied at the Institute for the Study of Colonial Ethnic Affairs in Moscow (Soviet Union). Perseverance