Hồ Chí Minh (* May 19th 1890 as Nguyễn Sinh Cung in Kim Liên, Nghệ An, northern coast of Vietnam) is a Vietnamese Revolutionary and Communist Politician.
Even when young, he showed a dislike against the French occupation. After several stations abroad, among other places Paris, Moscow, and Canton (where he had a short marriage in 1926/27 to a Catholic Chinese woman, which the Communists keep secret), Hồ Chí Minh was among the founders of the Communist Party of Indochina in Hong Kong of 1930, from which the Communist Party of Vietnam would emerge later. This is where he still stays in 1940 - in his Home country, he was sentenced to Death in Absence.
In his time in the Soviet Union, he met among others Nikolai I. Bukharin, Ernst Thälmann, Chou En-lai, and Chiang Kai-shek.
He uses Dozens of Pseudonyms to veil his earlier Life. "Chí Minh" means "clear Will". Another one is "Bác Hồ", "Uncle Hồ".
He speaks French, English, Russian, Cantonese, and Mandarin Chinese.
