Exhibition displays President Ho Chi Minh's signatures and autographs on historical documents

ABO/NDO- An exhibition displaying President Ho Chi Minh’s signatures and autographs on historical documents from the 1945-1969 period opened at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on May 17 to mark the Vietnamese beloved leader’s 133rd birth anniversary (May 19, 1890-2023).

Works on display at the exhibition include are more than 200 orders and decrees with President Ho’s autographs, and nearly 80 file photos illustrating the historical period from 1945 to 1969, during which Ho Chi Minh served as the President of Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Exhibition displays President Ho Chi Minh’s signatures and autographs on historical documents.

The exhibits are arranged into two parts. The first part groups photos and documents of the 1945-1954 period, when President Ho Chi Minh founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, built the people's administration system, adopted diplomatic solutions to protect revolutionary achievements, and led the long-term resistance war against French colonialists (1945-1954).

The second part introduces photos and documents dating back to the 1954-1969 period, when President Ho Chi Minh led the process of building socialism and protecting the North, while conducting the national liberation revolution in the South, and expanding diplomatic relations to mobilise support from the world's peace-loving, democratic, and progressive force.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Director of the State Archives and Records Department Dang Thanh Tung, said that decrees with handwritten autographs or signatures of President Ho Chi Minh, such as the President's appeal for national resistance on December 19, 1946, and his writings calling for national patriotic emulation in 1948, proved his clear-sighted and sound leadership in the early years of building the administration, and during the resistance war for national independence.

(Source: NDO)