SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM

CAPITAL: Hanoi SURFACE: 329.560 km2 POPULATION: 79.939.014 LANGUAGES: Vietnamés (official language), English (favored more and more like second language), some speak the French, Chinese, and Khmer. ALFABETISMO: 93.7% total; 96.5% men; 91.2% women RELIGIONS: Buddhist, hoa hao, cao dai, indigenous, Muslim Christians (predominant Roman catholics, some protestants)

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Minh and Tuan, two different ways of write history

Ho Chi Minh and the cosmonaut Pham Tuan became important in not an easy way, both give more than they have to give, putting into risk their own lives in different ways. While the first go to the war, the second traveled to the space.

Ho is most famous for leading the Viet Mihn independence movement in 1941, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. He led the North Vietnamese in the Vietnam War until his death. Six years later, the war ended with a North Vietnamese victory, and Vietnamese unification followed. The former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor. In the other hand, during his time in orbit in 1980, cosmonaut Tuan performed experiments with mineral samples and plant experiments on azolla. Tuan also took pictures of Vietnam from orbit for the purpose of mapping.

2 comments:

david said...

this is a very good vietnam person and the blogg is very interesting and also very good organaist and y hope to see more war stuff

Egypt said...

we can see that even when some people dont know vietnam has beauty, variety and also important people that did a lot for that country and that leave their signature in the history like heroes.