Hồ Chí Minh
Hồ Chí Minh (born Nguyễn Sinh Cung on May 19, 1890), also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, Bác Hồ, or simply Bác is a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and is the leader of the Việt Minh fighting against Japanese rule in Vietnam.
Biography
The man called Ho Chí Minh by the world has been known as Nguyen Sinh Cung and Bác Ho - "Uncle Ho" - in addition to something between fifty and two-hundred other pseudonyms. Virtually nothing is known about his life other than that he was born in Central Vietnam in 1890, and that he was trained in Marxist politics in France and Russia. He is, however, known and grudgingly respected by all Vietnamese - even his enemies - as a polyglot and a competent poet, whose poems in the Chu Hán and Chu Quoc Ngu scripts make for easy reading and listening for nearly the whole realm.
Now, on the other hand, they know something more about him than before. After more than two decades of struggle, first against the French, then against the Vichy French, and at last against the Japanese - all the same breed of imperialists, Ho knew quite well - Ho will not go quietly, if at all. Having carved out a free zone in Northern Vietnam, and with agents seemingly seeded throughout the country, Ho has become more than just a leader - he is an enigma and a bogeyman to the Japanese and the Vietnamese government, and a nearly mythical hero to anyone who stands against them.
But Ho Chi Minh grows old, and even as Japan's grip on Asia weakens, Ho senses he may not live long enough to see Vietnam stand proudly as an independent nation. The Vietnamese people know and rally to Uncle Ho - but who will they follow after he is gone?