On June 30 of that year, on a ship from Hamburg (Germany), with a passport bearing the name of the photographer “Chen Vang”, he arrived at the port of Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). However, the period that played the most important role in his later revolutionary choice, according to many biographers of President Ho, was the time he studied and lived in the capital Moscow in the years 1923 - 1924.
Speaking to a VNA reporter in the Russian Federation, Doctor of History, leading researcher of the Center for Vietnam and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Studies, and author of many books about Ho Chi Minh, Mr. Epghenhi Kobelev, said the most important place in Moscow associated with Ho Chi Minh is the former Communist International building at the corner of Mokhovaya Street, where today there is a memorial plaque stating that the first President of independent Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, worked in this building in 1923-1924.
The inscription on the memorial plaque was drafted by Dr. Kobelev himself. It is just a bronze plaque mounted on the wall of the building located right at the entrance to Red Square, but all Vietnamese people affectionately call it Uncle Ho Memorial House and consider it a small "house on stilts" to visit every time they come to Moscow or the Kremlin. This is also a "red" address that Vietnamese students studying in Moscow choose for extracurricular or political activities.
Opposite the building is the magnificent Lenin Library, the largest public library in Russia and continental Europe. Founded in 1862, it is one of the largest libraries in the world.
Nowadays, it only takes 5 minutes to complete a library card and have the opportunity to walk through the corridors that Uncle Ho walked through in the past, to the reading room where he sat for many hours every day during his years of studying in Russia, reading the books that brought him revolutionary ideas that determined his later choices.
According to Dr. Kobelev, one confirmed address is the Hotel "Lux" at 10 Tverskaya Street. President Ho Chi Minh lived here for quite a long time in 1923 - 1924, where he met with prominent figures of the revolutionary and communist movement of that time. It is very likely that he met the young Soviet poet Osif Mandenstam here.
Recounting that meeting, the poet wrote an article titled “Visiting an international communist soldier - Nguyen Ai Quoc”, recording the words of the future leader of the Vietnamese revolution about the Vietnamese people under the domination of French imperialism. The poet expressed his feelings as well as his prediction about Nguyen Ai Quoc: “From Nguyen Ai Quoc radiated a culture, not European culture, but perhaps the culture of the future”.
Over the past 100 years, the city has changed its appearance a lot. Some historical buildings have disappeared after the war. Even through archival documents, it is difficult to find the exact places where he lived and worked during his 6 years in Moscow. However, the reporter was lucky to find building number 4 Vilhem Pich Street, which in 1920-1930 was one of the buildings of the Communist International, now the National Social University.
The current school principal's office is the office of the General Secretary of the Communist International G. Dimitrov (1882 - 1949), who taught at the International University where Uncle Ho studied in 1923 - 1924 and is considered the time when he matured to decide to establish the Communist Party of Vietnam later in 1930.
The President of the Russian State Social University, Professor and Academician Andrey Khazin, said that the Social University was founded in 1919 as the Sverdlovsk Communist University, under the decision of Leader Lenin, who was also a lecturer at the school. The school has trained many generations of Party and State leaders of the Soviet Union, Russia and many other countries, including many outstanding communist activists and leaders of Communist Parties around the world. One of the students that the school is most proud of is President Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam.
The 1920s and 1930s were the years of many founders of new social, economic and political foundations of the world. For the school, Ho Chi Minh was not simply a name, but also a source of pride in the book published on the occasion of the school's 105th anniversary. Ho Chi Minh was one of the school's most outstanding students, the founder of Vietnam. Academician Khazin was proud that although there were no confirmed archival documents, he had many sources of documents showing that Ho Chi Minh was likely to have spoken at the school's auditorium.
Facilitated by the Communist International and the Soviet Union, Nguyen Ai Quoc had the opportunity to visit many places. Witnessing the atmosphere of labor and nation building of the Soviet people, he commented: "If Russia is not a paradise for everyone, Russia is a paradise for children." He wished that paradise would become a reality in his homeland.
Through articles published in newspapers and magazines of the Communist International and of Soviet Russia, Nguyen Ai Quoc carried out a propaganda campaign about Russia and Leninism, directing the colonial people's struggle toward Russia and the October Revolution.
Doctor of History, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Russian Diplomatic Academy, Petr Tsvetov, assessed that thanks to his theoretical and practical research on the Bolshevik Party and the communist movement in general in the world, it can be said that it was in Moscow that President Ho Chi Minh was ripe for choosing national liberation for the Vietnamese revolution. In Moscow, at the Communist International, Nguyen Ai Quoc was noticed, was assessed as being able to lead the Vietnamese people and even more, to lead the revolution on the entire Indochina Peninsula.
And indeed, the Vietnamese communists did not disappoint that trust. They founded the Communist Party in 1930 and on September 2, 1945, under the leadership of the Party, Vietnam successfully carried out the revolution. President Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence, an event that had an impact on neighboring countries.
According to Dr. Tsvetov, it can be confidently said that the Communist Party of Vietnam, then the Indochinese Communist Party, was founded on the model of the Bolshevik Party. President Ho Chi Minh repeatedly spoke about the role of the Party as an organizer and builder of the Party, similar to the Russian Bolshevik Party, in which he emphasized the role of propaganda, mobilization and mass mobilization to unite all those fighting for national liberation and against colonialism in Vietnam. All of this was realized by him in Moscow.
Following in his footsteps, generations of young people continued to study and train in Moscow and other cities of the Soviet Union, of modern Russia. The path from dormitory to lecture hall of today's young people can go through the sidewalks and street corners where their predecessors once walked. Ahead of them opens the career of building, developing and protecting the homeland that in the past had gained independence and freedom from the light of the October Revolution.
Source: https://baohaiduong.vn/nguyen-ai-quoc-o-moskva-va-con-duong-thanh-cong-cua-cach-mang-404177.html
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