Ho Chi Minh watching a performance at a youth rally -- Daily LIFT #1941

Ho Chi Minh and Zhou Enlai at a banquet in Beijing, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1937

Ho Chi Minh visits with young children -- Daily LIFT #1933

Ho Chi Minh poster for a Cuban documentary film, 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1923

Vietnamese stamp for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution featuring Ho Chi Minh and Lenin -- Daily LIFT #1915

Vietnam-China solidarity float, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1899

Mao and Ho Chi Minh, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1898

Ho Chi Minh with a comrade in the field, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1895

Independence, Freedom, Socialism: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam War era poster -- Daily LIFT #1893

Ho Chi Minh, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1890

Ho Chi Minh sharing a laugh with schoolkids c. 1958 -- Daily LIFT #1889

Ti Top Island, located in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, is renowned for its stunning crescent-shaped beach, panoramic views, and rich history, making it a must-visit destination for travelers. The monument to Titov on the island, 2025 -- Andre Hospers, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Ti Top or Titov Island gained new historical prominence in 1962 when Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov visited the spectacularly beautiful Ha Long Bay with Democratic Republic of Vietnam President Ho Chi M

Ho Chi Minh presents a medal to Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov, second person to go into space at the Presidential Palace, Hanoi, January 21, 1962 -- Daily LIFT #1861

Image via news video screenshot Various Sources The 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) officially opened on January 20, 2026, at the National Convention Center in Hanoi. The congress is the country's most significant political event, held every five years to determine the party's national leadership and strategic direction for the following term. It began with an appeal for unity, discipline, and determination to guide the nation into a new phase o

President Ho Chi Minh, poster image, late 1960s -- Daily LIFT #1843

First published in the Soviet magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice in September, 1985: The life of the fighter for the people's happiness, Ho Chi Minh, (''worldlywise" - in Vietnamese) was both colourful and eventful. His real name was Nguyen Tat Thanh (1890-1969). He was the son of a village teacher. He began his revolutionary activity in his early youth. At the age of 15 he was a liaison for the local patriotically-minded democrats fighting against the French colonialist

Image via the PCC Via the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), translated from the Spanish Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, a member of the Secretariat and head of the Economic and Productive Department of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), led a virtual meeting with Nguyen Thanh Nghi, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and head of its Policy and Strategy Commission. The theme agreed upon for this exchange was "The role of the Party in macroeconomic

Image via the PCC By Wennys Díaz Ballaga, translated from the Spanish In a meeting that reaffirms the historic friendship between Cuba and Vietnam, established by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) welcomed the delegation from the Scientific Council of the Central Organs of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). The delegation was led by Vu Thanh

Images via the PCC By Wennys Díaz Ballaga, translated from the Spanish The meeting between Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, a member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), and Pham Xuan Thuy, the deputy head of the Commission for Propaganda and Mass Mobilization of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), who is visiting the island with his delegation, was a reflection of the excellent state of bilateral rel

To Lam and Kim Jong Un -- image via X Various Sources Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary To Lam arrived in Pyongyang in the...