Lê Duẩn

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Lê Duẩn, 1978

Lê Duẩn (born April 7, 1907 , † July 10, 1986 in Hanoi ) was a Vietnamese politician and founding member of the Communist Party of Indochina . He was one of the communist leadership cadres during the Indochina War and Vietnam War . After the death of Hồ Chí Minh , he assumed the central leadership role in the state as general secretary of the party, which he held until his death.

Life

Le Duan came from a humble background in a family in central Vietnam. He turned to communism during his time as a railroad worker in the 1920s. In 1930 he became a founding member of the Indochinese Communist Party. He was captured twice by the French and joined the Việt Minh . Lê was from 1945 under H war Chí Minh an influential member of the Central Committee of the North Vietnam during the August Revolution . From 1946 he was one of the leading Viet Minh cadres in Cochinchina . Le Duan was formally entrusted with the management of the underground organization in Cochinchina in 1951 by Hoc Chi Minh. After the peace agreement at the Indochina Conference in 1954, he remained underground there. He became the party's first secretary in 1960 and thus officially the most important figure in the party after Hồ Chí Minh. Against the background of the growing involvement of American troops during the Vietnam War in the second half of the 1960s, Lê Duẩn radicalized his ideas about the military action against the regime in South Vietnam and its American supporters. He campaigned vehemently for the implementation of the Tet Offensive and its successor campaigns, all of which led to heavy losses for the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) and the North Vietnamese armed forces . Previously, he had sidelined officials who voted against such radical steps. After the death of Ho Chi Minh, Le took over the leadership of North Vietnam. When South Vietnam was united with North Vietnam in 1976 and the party was restructured, Lê became general secretary of the party. He approved the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia to overthrow the China-backed Khmer Rouge terror regime . This put a heavy strain on relations between Vietnam and China, to which Vietnam responded by deporting ethnic Chinese and in 1979 China carried out a costly punitive expedition against Vietnam. From then on, Vietnam cultivated a closer alliance with the Soviet Union and joined the Comecon . Lê remained Secretary General until his death in 1986. His successor was Trường Chinh . Lê Duản was also known as Lê Dung and was also called "anh Ba" (third brother) in public.

Publications

  • Le Duan, The Vietnamese Revolution. Basic problems and main tasks. Marxist sheets publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • Le Duan, Selected Speeches and Writings 1973 - 1977. Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1977.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher E. Goscha : Vietnam - A New History. New York, 2016, p. 305
  2. ^ Jacques Dalloz: Dictionnaire de la Guerre d'Indochine 1945 - 1954 , Paris, 2006, p. 138
  3. ↑ Arnd Festerling: After Tet everything was different. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . January 30, 2018, accessed September 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ George C. Herring: The Road to Tet. In: The New York Times . January 27, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lê Duẩn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1907
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1986
Place of death Hanoi