Trường Chinh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Vietnamese political leader
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Place of Birth: Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam
About Trường Chinh
- Tru?ng Chinh (Vietnamese: [??^?? ci??]; 9 February 1907, Xuân Tru?ng District, Nam Ð?nh Province – 30 September 1988, Hanoi) was a Vietnamese communist political leader and theoretician.
- He was one of the key figures of Vietnamese politics.
- Together with the communists, he played the main role in the anti-French colonialism movement and finally after decades of protracted war in Vietnam, the communists defeated the colonial power.
- He was the think-tank of the Communist Party who determined the direction of the communist movement, particularly in the anti-French colonialism movement.
- After the declaration of independence in September 1945, Tru?ng Chinh played an important role in shaping the politics of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and creating the socialist structure of the new Vietnam.During the transitional period in Vietnam between 1941 and 1956, Tru?ng Chinh was the General Secretary of the Communist Party as well as the real leader of the communist party in terms of designing strategies as well as implementing them.
- In 1957, after the failure of Land Reform program, he was dismissed from his post of General Secretary and had less power.
- H? Chí Minh selected Lê Du?n to succeed him as the General Secretary and he became the most powerful person after the 1960s.
- However, Tru?ng Chinh was still an influential thinker in the Party during the second Indochina war and after the reunification of Vietnam.
- Following the death of Lê Du?n in 1986, he succeeded Le Duan as top party leader and was the President of Vietnam from 1981 to 1987.
- His last vital role was to carry forward the Ð?i M?i renovation that still affects Vietnam to this day.
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