Timeless photos of President Ho Chi Minh

Nguyen Ai Quoc (President Ho Chi Minh’s name during his revolutionary activities in France) attends and speaks at the 18th National Congress of the French Socialist Party in Tours city, December 26, 1920 (Photo: VNA archives)

The patriotic young man, Nguyen Tat Thanh (President Ho Chi Minh), leaves Saigon Port on the French vessel the Admiral Latouche-Tréville to fulfill his ambition to free his country, June 5, 1911. The journey went through three oceans, four continents and nearly 30 countries, bringing him to Marxism-Leninism, the pioneering revolutionary theory of the era (Photo: VNA archives)

President Ho Chi Minh reads the Declaration of Independence, founding the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at Ba Dinh Square, September 2, 1945 (Photo: VNA archives)

President Ho Chi Minh speaks with soldiers at Giong Temple in the relics of Hung Temple (Phu Tho), September 19, 1954. He said, famously, that “the Hung Kings founded the nation, you and I must hang on to it” (Photo: VNA archives)

President Ho Chi Minh chairs a meeting of the Politburo on the plan for the Spring-Winter 1953-1954 campaign in Thai Nguyen, September 1953 (Photo: VNA archives)

President Ho Chi Minh at Dong Khe front in Cao Bang province, September 16, 1950 (Photo: VNA archives)

Students from Trung Vuong High School in Hanoi congratulate President Ho Chi Minh on his birthday, May 19, 1956 (Photo: VNA)

President Ho Chi Minh laid the foundation for the special relationship between Vietnam and Laos and worked hard to build this relationship to become a faithful and and exemplary relations. In the photo: President Ho Chi Minh receives Lao President Souphanouvong at the Viet Bac Revolutionary Base, 1958 (Photo: VNA archives)

 President Ho Chi Minh and members of the Provisional Government Council of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Photo: VNA archives)

President Ho Chi Minh visits Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his official visit to India from February 5-14, 1958 (Photo: VNA archives)

President Ho Chi Minh and Guinea President Ahmed Sékou Touré sign the Vietnam-Guinea Joint Statement at the Presidential Palace, September 17, 1960 (Photo: VNA archives)

After the North was completely liberated, President Ho Chi Minh and the Party Central Committee focused on consolidating the North in all aspects, first of all to restore and improve agricultural production. In the photo: President Ho Chi Minh joins in preventing droughts in Dai Thanh commune, Ha Dong, January 12, 1958 (Photo: VNA archives)