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The call for a general uprising of the Viet Minh front in 1945.
President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence giving birth to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945 (Photo: VNA documents).
The Declaration of Independence was drafted and read by President Ho Chi Minh at Ba Dinh Square, Hanoi on September 2, 1945. The Declaration of Independence is currently kept at the National Museum of History.
The Declaration of Independence begins with an eternal and universal truth: “All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are undeniable truths.”
Audio tape recording of the Declaration of Independence; currency of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945; compass used by President Ho Chi Minh during his business trip in 1945 and political map of Indochina used by President Ho Chi Minh in 1945.
President Ho Chi Minh and members of the Provisional Government after the first Government meeting on September 3, 1945.
In the first meeting of the Government on September 3, 1945, Government members agreed on 6 urgent tasks proposed by President Ho Chi Minh including: Launching increased production, opening fundraising campaigns to fight famine.
Launch a movement against illiteracy; organize as soon as possible a general election with universal suffrage, implement democratic freedoms for the people; launch an educational movement on diligence, thrift, integrity, and uprightness, eliminate social evils left by the colonial regime; abolish unreasonable taxes, first of all the poll tax, market tax, and ferry tax; absolutely prohibit opium smoking; declare freedom of belief and solidarity between religions.
President Ho Chi Minh with National Assembly delegates and patriotic intellectuals in Hanoi, October 1946.
President Ho Chi Minh at the first session of the 1st National Assembly on March 2, 1946.
According to information from the Ho Chi Minh Museum, the unit is currently the largest place to store documents and artifacts about the life, career and ideology of President Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam with more than 17,000 documents and artifacts.
The main exhibition content of the Ho Chi Minh Museum on the 3rd floor has an area of nearly 4,000 square meters, with over 2,000 documents and exhibits, systematically reflecting the life and revolutionary career of President Ho Chi Minh associated with important historical events of the Vietnamese people and the era from the end of the 19th century to the present.