President Ton Duc Thang remembered on his 42nd death anniversary
A ceremony was held in Long Xuyen city, the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, where President Ton Duc Thang was born, to pay tribute to the late Vietnamese leader on the occasion of his 42nd death anniversary on March 16.
Secretary of the An Giang Party Committee Le Hong Quang offers incense to late President Ton Duc Thang on his 42nd death anniversary on March 16. (Photo: VNA)
An Giang (VNA) – A ceremony was held in Long Xuyencity, the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, where President Ton Duc Thang wasborn, to pay tribute to the late Vietnamese leader on the occasion of his 42nd death anniversaryon March 16.
Secretary of the An Giang Party Committee Le Hong Quang and otherprovincial leaders offered incense and observed a minute’s silence to show respectfor one of Vietnam’s greatest revolutionary leaders at the memorial site dedicated to the late President in MyHoa Hung commune.
Thang, born in 1888 in My Hoa Hung, joined thepatriotic movement against the French colonialists at a young age. He then moved to France and participated in the workers’movements there, as well as the rising of the French Navy in the Black Sea insupport of the October Revolution in Russia.
In the 1920s, he returned to Vietnam and led the workers’movement in Saigon, now HCM City, with the Ba Son strike as the most prominentexample of the movement’s activities.
In 1929, the French colonialists arrested and sentenced himto 20 years in Con Dao Prison. One year later, he joined the Communist Party ofVietnam while he was in prison.
After the August Revolution in 1945, Thang regained hisfreedom and joined the resistance war against the French invaders. He wasassigned many important missions by the Party.
He was the second President of Vietnam, serving from 1969 to1976.
He made great contributions to the Vietnamese revolution,the world peace movement, and international friendships. He was the firstperson to be awarded the Sao Vang (Golden Star) Order from the Party andGovernment. He was also conferred with the Lenin Order and the Lenin Prize of theSoviet Union.
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Secretary of the An Giang Party Committee Le Hong Quang offers incense to late President Ton Duc Thang on his 42nd death anniversary on March 16. (Photo: VNA)
