The essence of the Communist regime is to build monuments both literally and figuratively. In addition to building hundreds of Ho Chi Minh monuments throughout Vietnam, they also use propaganda and education to indoctrinate, to create the image of Ho Chi Minh as a saint.
In addition, they also built a mausoleum and embalmed Ho Chi Minh’s body to make him as a “emperor” in feudal dynasties. Even, there were many feudal dynasties that did not even build a giant mausoleum like the Communist government built for Ho Chi Minh. With an annual budget of over VND300 billion ($14 million) to maintain his mausoleum, the Communist Party decided to keep Ho’s mummy in order to teach people who were indoctrinated about an extremely venerable saint. Thanks to this, the Communist Party hides behind this saint to benefit.
Since the fall of Eastern Europe, in order to strengthen the monument of leader Ho Chi Minh, the Communist Party has created the so-called “Ho Chi Minh Thought,” forcing students to study. Actually, Ho Chi Minh had no ideas, except what he learned from Marx and Lenin. Before 1990, Vietnamese universities only taught Marxist-Leninist philosophy, not the so-called “Ho Chi Minh Thought.”
In the Communist regime, there are generally two types of saints: First-class saints are embalmed, lying in mausoleums, whose ideas are written into books, forcing students to study. The second-class saint may also have a mausoleum, but he is not mummified and has no idea for students to “gnaw.”
In Vietnam, Mr. Ho Chi Minh is the first-class saint, and General Vo Nguyen Giap is the second-class saint. The Communist Party mainly builds the image of a first-class saint, so that they can hide behind this saint and benefit.
In the former Soviet Union, there were two first-class saints, Lenin and Stalin. Stalin was later stripped of his saintly privilege. In North Korea, there are currently two first-class saints, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. In China, there is a saint and the first-class saint, that is Mao Zedong.
In China, there is a man who wants to become a saint like Mao. That’s Xi Jinping. Currently, he is also introducing Xi Jinping’s thought into Party resolutions. It is possible that in the future, China will have 2 first-class saints.
On May 9, Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training issued a directive directing the introduction of anti-corruption content into teaching at universities. The official letter requested schools to update the content of the program, teaching materials, and anti-corruption and negative behavior from the school year 2023-2024. Among the documents mentioned, there is a book on anti-corruption of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
Thus, Nguyen Phu Trong has compared with Ho Chi Minh in terms of ideology. Ho Chi Minh was drawn up by the Communist Party as “Ho Chi Minh Thought” after his death. As for Nguyen Phu Trong’s ideology, which is a bit more sophisticated, it is an anti-corruption ideology, learned from when he was still in power. Perhaps, Nguyen Phu Trong summed up and put into the book from the construction of his wood burning stove. At least Trong’s goods are genuine, and Ho’s goods are fake, because it is not Ho’s.
Thus, if Nguyen Phu Trong, after his death, is placed in the mausoleum and embalmed like Ho Chi Minh, then it is possible that Nguyen Phu Trong will become a first-class saint standing in the same row with Ho Chi Minh, leaving late General Vo Nguyen Giap to stay away.
Currently, Nguyen Phu Trong is 79 years old. At this age, Ho Chi Minh died. With his current weak health, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has a few days left. It is unclear whether Mr. Trong has prepared the land to build his mausoleum? And if so, is the mausoleum bigger than Tran Dai Quang’s mausoleum? If he realizes his dream of having big mausoleum, maybe Nguyen Phu Trong will fulfill his dream of leading the country.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
