Content introduction: Nguyen Ai Quoc (President Ho Chi Minh) mingled with the working people, in the reality of the revolutionary struggle of the working masses in many countries around the world. During this period, he gradually became aware of the deep roots of all ethnic and class oppression, absorbed the cultural quintessence of humanity, especially culminating in Marxism-Leninism, and found the right path to national liberation.

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- On June 5, 1911, President Ho Chi Minh who at that time took the name as Van Ba ​​got on the Amiral Latouche Tréville ship to start a journey to find the way to national liberation with a high determination to bring freedom and life of comfort for our compatriots.

- From 1911 to 1920, he met, contacted, learned, studied and penetrated into reality in many countries around the world to find a way to fight for national liberation with a determination “Freedom for my compatriots, independence for my country, these are all that I want and all that I understand.”

- In 1917, the October Socialist Revolution broke out in Russia, shaking the whole world. Like a spring thunder, the October Socialist Revolution awakened the working class and the oppressed people all over the world to rise up and fight. The Russian October Revolution had made a decisive influence on the revolutionary activity life of President Ho Chi Minh.

- During this period, he gradually joined political organizations and actively worked in the French workers' movements. In particular, on July 16 and 17, 1920, he read “Lenin's Preliminary Draft Theses on the National and Colonial Questions” published in L'Humanite' (Humanitarian) newspaper, the official organ of the French Socialist Party. From Lenin's thesis, he found the basic direction and guideline of the revolutionary movement for national liberation, including the Vietnamese revolution.

- While doing revolutionary activities in France, President Ho Chi Minh joined the French Socialist Party. In December 1920, as a delegate to Indochina, President Ho Chi Minh participated in the 18th National Congress of the French Socialist Party held in Tour City. At the Congress, he repeatedly spoke in support of the Indochinese revolutionary movement, in the last session (on December 29) he voted in favor of the Third International. Later in another session, leftists announced the establishment of the French Communist Party. He was one of the founding members of the French Communist Party and the first Vietnamese communist.

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