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Place of Birth: Thanh Hóa, Vietnam
About Lê Khả Phiêu
- Lê Kh? Phiêu (born 27 December 1931 in Ðông Son District in Thanh Hóa Province) is a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from December 1997 to April 2001.
- Lê Kh? Phiêu served in the Vietnam People's Army during the First and Second Indochina Wars, join in the Cambodian war, and was Head of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army.Lê Kh? Phiêu was previously been viewed as a conservative.
- However, this categorization has been challenged by historian Martin Gainsborough, who notes that Lê Kh? Phiêu made some remarkably outspoken comments about problems in the party before the Tenth Party Congress.
- Lê Kh? Phiêu criticized what he called 'illness of partyization' (b?nh d?ng hoá), meaning that the Party controls everything.
- Lê Kh? Phiêu was a protégé of his predecessor, Ð? Mu?i.
- He was elevated to the Politburo in the early 1990s.
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