That was Ho Chi Minh. He wrote a proclamation of independence from France, for the nation of Vietnam, in 1945.
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Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the communist revolution against French colonialism in Vietnam. He was also the first President of North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
The communist leader who took over North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh.
After the Geneva Conventions in 1954 Vietnam was split into two, North Vietnam (communists) and South Vietnam (democrats). The leader of the North was Ho Chi Minh. The leader of the South was Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem, who was later elected president of South Vietnam; and overthrown by his own general in a coup d'tat in 1963. Nguyen Van Thieu took over, as leader of South Vietnam, for the remainder of the war.
Communist party selection process.