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Virtual exhibition on late General Vo Nguyen Giap to open this weekend

A virtual exhibition on the late General Vo Nguyen Giap will open on August 22 on the occasion of his 110th birth anniversary (August 25) to honour the legendary general’s great contributions to the national liberation cause.
Virtual exhibition on late General Vo Nguyen Giap to open this weekend ảnh 1General Vo Nguyen Giap (second from right) and other members of the Central Military Commission (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A virtual exhibition on the late General Vo Nguyen Giap will open on August 22 on the occasion of his 110th birth anniversary (August25) to honour the legendary general’s great contributions to the nationalliberation cause.

The exhibition, held by the Thang Long-Hanoi Heritage Conservation Centre, will introduce to visitors 200 document andphotos, notably a secret dispatch handwritten by General Giap on April 7, 1975,urging military units to exert every effort to liberate the south of Vietnam.

Through the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunityto look back at the heroic revolutionary tradition of the Vietnam People's Armyassociated with General Giap - a loyal revolutionary soldier, an excellent andclose disciple of President Ho Chi Minh and the “eldest brother” of the VietnamPeople’s Army.

Virtual exhibition on late General Vo Nguyen Giap to open this weekend ảnh 2General Vo Nguyen Giap (R) and President Ho Chi Minh (L). (File Photo)
General Vo Nguyen Giap, whose real name is Vo Giap (aliasVan), was born in Loc Thuy commune, Le Thuy district, the central province ofQuang Binh on August 25, 1911.  He passedaway in Hanoi on October 4, 2013 at the age of 103.

He once served as a Politburo member, Secretary of theCentral Military Commission, Standing Deputy Prime Minister, Minister ofNational Defence, Commander-in-Chief of the Vietnamese People’s Army and aNational Assembly deputy from the first to seventh tenures.

The General, whose military career starting with his appointment to lead the first Vietnamese revolutionary army unit with only 34 soldiers in 1944, led the Vietnamese people's army from victory to victory during the resistance war against French colonialists and then American imperialists./.
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