President Ho Chi Minh wrote more than 2,000 articles in many languages.

President Ho Chi Minh has more than 2,000 articles of all kinds, nearly 300 poems, nearly 500 pages of stories and memoirs... with about 182 pen names, written in many languages ​​such as Vietnamese, English, French, Russian, Chinese.

Delegates listen to a presentation on the topic President Ho Chi Minh, the founder of Vietnam's revolutionary press - Photo: Organizing Committee

On the morning of June 20, Ho Chi Minh Museum - Ho Chi Minh City branch - opened a special exhibition on President Ho Chi Minh, the founder of Vietnam's revolutionary press .

This is one of the activities to celebrate the 135th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday, the 114th anniversary of Uncle Ho's departure to find a way to save the country, and the 100th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day.

President Ho Chi Minh wrote more than 2,000 articles.

The thematic exhibition introduces 100 documents and artifacts, divided into two parts: Journalist Nguyen Ai Quoc - Ho Chi Minh and President Ho Chi Minh - Founder and trainer of Vietnamese revolutionary journalism.

Coming to the exhibition, visitors can see revolutionary newspapers associated with each historical period of the nation in the two long and arduous resistance wars. These are the newspaper Su That , the newspaper Co Giai Phong , Tien Dao , Thong Nhat ...

Along with that are precious images of President Ho Chi Minh and articles written by President Ho Chi Minh in foreign and domestic newspapers.

According to the organizers, during his revolutionary career, President Ho Chi Minh founded 9 newspapers at home and abroad.

He had more than 2,000 articles of all kinds, nearly 300 poems, nearly 500 pages of stories and memoirs... with about 182 pen names written in many languages ​​such as Vietnamese, English, French, Russian, Chinese..., collaborating with many famous foreign newspapers, especially in places where he participated in revolutionary activities.

Headquarters and page of the newspaper The Miserable published a caricature of President Ho Chi Minh - Photo: HOAI PHUONG

Collection of newspapers founded by President Ho Chi Minh - Photo: HOAI PHUONG

Vietnamese press as a vivid chronicle

Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Lien - Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh Museum - Ho Chi Minh City branch, shared that this exhibition aims to affirm that President Ho Chi Minh was not only the one who laid the foundation and founded the revolutionary newspaper - Thanh Nien newspaper, but he also trained the first generation of proletarian journalists in Vietnam.

"The exhibition on President Ho Chi Minh, the founder of Vietnam's revolutionary press, once again affirms that Vietnamese journalism is a vivid and heroic chronicle of our people's cause of building and defending the Fatherland," Ms. Kim Lien emphasized.

A corner of the exhibition on President Ho Chi Minh, the founder of Vietnam's revolutionary press - Photo: HOAI PHUONG

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Minh Nhut - Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City - acknowledged the efforts of the Ho Chi Minh Museum - Ho Chi Minh City branch in organizing the thematic exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day.

Thereby helping generations of journalists look back at the past, prepare development directions in the coming time, to build a professional, humane and modern Vietnamese revolutionary press.

The exhibition on President Ho Chi Minh, the founder of Vietnam's revolutionary press, takes place from June 20 to August 31 at the Ho Chi Minh Museum - Ho Chi Minh City branch (No. 1, Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, Ward 13, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City).

Liberation Flag Newspaper - Photo: HOAI PHUONG

Truth Newspaper - Photo: HOAI PHUONG

Many valuable artifacts are on display - Photo: HOAI PHUONG

Why was June 21 chosen as Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day?

According to the organizers, in early 1925, at No. 13 Van Minh Street, Guangzhou, China, Nguyen Ai Quoc founded Thanh Nien newspaper - the mouthpiece of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association (Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association).

This is the first revolutionary newspaper in Vietnam, the newspaper that opened the history of revolutionary journalism and Vietnamese proletarian journalism.

Thanh Nien newspaper with its historical mission: Disseminate Marxism-Leninism, propagate the revolutionary path, call on people to unite in the struggle, actively contribute to the preparation in terms of political theory, ideology and organization for the establishment of the Communist Party of Vietnam , opening a new press stream - Vietnamese revolutionary press.

In February 1985, at the request of the Vietnam Journalists Association, the Party Central Committee Secretariat issued Decision No. 52 dated February 5, 1985, choosing the date of the first issue of Thanh Nien newspaper as Vietnam Press Day (June 21, 1925), in order to strengthen the Party's leadership over the press, enhance the role and social responsibility of the press, and tighten the relationship between the press and the public.

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