Tôn Đức Thắng

Tôn Thắng Đức ( born August 19, 1888 in My Hoa Hung, Dinh Thanh District, An Giang Province, Vietnam, † March 30, 1980 in Hanoi, Vietnam) was a Vietnamese politician.

Biography

Tôn Đức Thắng was involved early in the anti - colonial movement, but resigned in 1912 in the French Navy. It is claimed that he had served in 1919 on a French battle cruiser during the operations against the Soviet revolutionaries in the Black Sea at Sevastopol. He is said to have taken part in an uprising that led by the Bolsheviks for the conquest of his ship. In later versions of this story is not added, it was he who hoisted the red flag of the rebels on the ship. All these reports are not substantiated - most likely it is a myth that should legitimize the revolutionary movement in Vietnam and bring to the origins of the Soviet Union in close connection.

After his discharge from military service, he returned in 1920 to Vietnam and was sentenced off the coast of South Vietnam because of his revolutionary activities in 1929 to 20 years of forced labor on the prison island Côn Đạo ( poulo - condors ).

After the guided Ho Chi Minh August 1945 Revolution, led to the creation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) led on September 2, 1945 he was released from prison.

In 1951 he was appointed president of the Association of National People's Front ( Lien Hoi Hien Quoc Dan Viet Nam ( Lien Viet) ). After the Indo-China Conference in Geneva in 1954, which led to the recognition of the supremacy of the Việt Minh in North Vietnam, the Lien Viet Fatherland Front (MAT Tran tó Quốc Việt Nam ) was renamed, which was under his chairmanship to the umbrella organization of the mass organizations. In this role, worked to bring about the unification with South Vietnam.

In addition, he was from 1950 to 1969 chairman of the Soviet -Vietnamese Friendship Association and received the 1956 International Stalin Peace Prize for his negotiations during the Indochina Conference.

At the same time he was also first vice president and then as the successor of Bùi Bằng Đoàn 1955-1960 Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly ( Quoc Hoi Việt Nam ) and thus Parliament President.

1960 he was appointed Vice President of North Vietnam. As such, it was after the death of Ho Chi Minh on September 2, 1969, his successor as president of North Vietnam.

After the reunification and the establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on July 2, 1976 he was president of Vietnam and served in this largely ceremonial office of state until his death.

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