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The initial incarnation of the flag was used by the Viet Minh, a communist-led organization created in 1941 to oppose Japanese occupation. At the end of World War II, Viet Minh leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam independent and signed a decree on 5 September 1945 adopting the Viet Minh flag as the flag of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. [5]
A large yellow star centered on the red field (2:3). Influences: June 2, 1948 – July 2, 1949. July 2, 1949 – April 30, 1975. Flag of the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, the State of Vietnam, and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). Or, three bars Gules. A yellow field with three red stripes (2:3).
When a Vietnamese-American videotape store owner displayed the current flag of Vietnam and a photo of Ho Chi Minh in front of his store in Westminster, California in 1999, a month-long protest against it climaxed when 15,000 people held a candlelight vigil one night, sparking the Hi-Tek incident (Hi-Tek was the name of the store). [27]
The Hi-Tek incident, [a] referred to in Vietnamese-language media as the Trần Trường incident (Vietnamese: Vụ Trần Trường or Sự kiện Trần Trường), was a series of protests in 1999 by Vietnamese Americans in Little Saigon, Orange County, California in response to Trần Văn Trường's display of the flag of communist Vietnam and a picture of Ho Chi Minh in the window of ...
e. Hồ Chí Minh[a][b] (born Nguyễn Sinh Cung; [c][d][e][3][4] 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), [f] colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ), [g][7] and by other aliases [h] and sobriquets, [i] was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary and politician. He served as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955, and ...
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC; Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), better known as Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn), is the most populous city in Vietnam, with a population of around 10 million in 2023. [7] The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigon River. As a municipality, Ho Chi Minh City consists of 16 ...
Party flag. Việt Minh (Vietnamese: [vîət mīŋ̟] ⓘ, chữ Hán: 越盟) is the common and abbreviated name of the League for Independence of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Độc lập Đồng minh[2] or Việt Nam Độc lập Đồng minh Hội, chữ Hán: 越南獨立同盟 (會); French: Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam ...
Nguyen-thai-Hoc. Grand-waterfall dam, Mù Cang Chải Terrace, Lũng Lô Hill, Flag of Vietnam, Nelumbo nucifera. Province as of 11 April 1900. Sơn La. Tinh hoa miền Tây Bắc. (The essence of the Northwest) To Hieu. Sonla dam, Brocade, Flag of Vietnam, wheat. Vạn Bú province from 10 October 1895, then Sơn La province as of 23 August 1904.