President Ho Chi Minh: Great journalist of the Vietnamese people

BDK.VN - In the article "Ho Chi Minh - Great Journalist of the Nation", Professor Ha Minh Duc wrote: ... In his revolutionary career, Ho Chi Minh has an important legacy in poetry, literature and especially in journalism. He did not consider himself a writer or poet but considered himself a political commentator. This is meaningful, throughout his life, right from the early days of his revolutionary activities, he used journalism as a weapon of struggle. He was the editor-in-chief of many important newspapers: Le Paria, Thanh Nien, Viet Nam Doc Lap..., and was the direct director of major Party newspapers such as Co Giai Phong, Su That, Nhan Dan...

President Ho Chi Minh always had affection for Vietnamese journalism.

Professor Ha Minh Duc has analyzed and clarified many noble qualities of leader Nguyen Ai Quoc during his time as a journalist, and his commitment to the journalism career. In particular, he emphasized: He was a journalist in the truest sense of the profession. He did not pay attention to his own name and career, but only cared about the sacred goal of using his pen to serve the revolution. He focused all his writings on one topic. "As for the content of his writing, which you guys call "theme", all his articles had only one "topic": opposing colonialism, imperialism, feudalism, propagating national independence and socialism. That was Uncle Ho's fate with the press.

He used many pen names to suit each working situation in the period before and after the revolution and depending on his position as a soldier working for the movement or asPresident . He chose the most effective ways to approach and attack the enemy.

Although he was busy with thousands of tasks in his responsibility as the head of the State, he still wrote articles as a close, normal journalist. This also showed his passionate love for the profession. Writing articles was his daily work, like a craftsman holding a hammer, a tailor holding a needle and thread, diligently working.

Ho Chi Minh's press deeply expressed the idea that "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom" , the most important point in Ho Chi Minh's ideology. From the patriotism and courageous actions in the Petition of the Annamese People to the Versailles Conference (1919) to the national and class spirit in The Miserable , from the will of an entire nation in the 1945 Declaration of Independence , the spirit of determination to protect independence, "rather sacrifice everything than be slaves" in the Call for National Resistance to the Call for Resistance Against the US to Save the Country and the Historical Testament...

Ho Chi Minh's journalism career was rich and great. In terms of content, all of his articles contained his great thoughts on the issues of national liberation revolution in a colonial country following the path of the proletariat, the people's democratic state and socialism, the proletarian dictatorship, heroic patriotism and proletarian internationalism. The articles also expressed his profound opinions on Party building, the communist-peasant alliance, military , diplomacy, internal affairs... It can be said that, except for his great works, Ho Chi Minh's thoughts were expressed mainly through the press. Therefore, during his lifetime, the press was an offensive front, where struggles on the ideological front took place.

At present, his journalism is a valuable treasure containing many lessons and experiences on many social issues. A research project on Ho Chi Minh's journalism cannot cover all of the above issues. There is a separate angle and scope for studying his treasure trove of journalistic works as a journalist, a sharp political writer - the one who laid the first foundation for proletarian revolutionary journalism and made important contributions to the development of revolutionary journalism through many stages.

Ho Chi Minh’s life of journalism is an exemplary model for journalists of many generations. To have a career in journalism and become a journalist who contributes to society, one must first have a noble ideal as a goal for one’s activities throughout one’s life. The foremost quality is to have the courage to fight and the will to realize that social goal.

Journalists are people who work in many fields, so they must have a wide range of knowledge and a high level of culture. Ho Chi Minh was a journalist with a large cultural background, so his pen could roam many fields. His proficiency in foreign languages ​​always created conditions for receiving information from other countries and for wide cultural exchanges. Journalist Ho Chi Minh also had a rich knowledge of the journalism profession. This knowledge was not only book knowledge but also experiences drawn from many years of practical journalism activities. The path of development from a patriotic young man who turned to journalism to express his political views and became a mature journalist and covered all activities of a newspaper and then became a journalist of the international communist movement. The name of Nguyen Ai Quoc gradually became familiar to the French public, then a series of other pen names referring to many international issues made the author an excellent writer researching Eastern issues. Later, in the newspapers of the international communist movement, he made important contributions. It can be said that Ho Chi Minh had the stature of an international journalist. Journalist Ho Chi Minh and his journalistic style are important research subjects of modern Vietnamese journalism.

After half a century of journalism, the journalism legacy that Ho Chi Minh left behind remains intact to this day. To date, exactly 100 years since the birth of the Vietnamese revolutionary press, President Ho Chi Minh's thoughts, writing style, and articles have always shone brightly and brought great meaning and usefulness to everyone, especially today's press team.

In the article “Ho Chi Minh, the man”, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong wrote: “Ho Chi Minh is a strategist, leader, organizer, and at the same time a great culturalist, journalist, and poet. He initiated and made an important contribution to the modernization of Vietnamese language and writing. Throughout his life, Ho Chi Minh was a writer, fighting on the cultural and journalistic front, with a diverse and nuanced writing style, the highlight of which is the popular character, the way of thinking and expressing folk, easy to understand, deeply resonates in people's hearts, evokes great thoughts, promotes good deeds, with simple and figurative words, saying great things with small words”.

K. Thi (synthesis)

(source: "President Ho Chi Minh lives forever in our cause", Lao Dong Publishing House, Hanoi - 2005)

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