(VOVworld)-From 1947 to 1969, 21 verses by President Ho Chi Minh reached the entire Vietnamese people on New Year’s Eve via Radio the Voice of Vietnam. The poems encouraged the people to overcome difficulties and win the resistance war for national salvation.
For 22 years President Ho Chi Minh’s New Year poems were a spiritual gift to the people fighting for national independence. In the 1960s, the family of poet Tran Anh Thai gathered around their radio at midnight every New Year’s Eve.
“We went to bed only after listening to President Ho Chi Minh’s poem. We felt warm and moved”, Mr. Thai recalled.
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| Tram Pagoda where President Ho Chi Minh read a Lunar New Year poem he wrote to the Vietnamese people for the first time on Radio the Voice of Vietnam (1947) |
Nguyen Minh Khiem of Thanh Hoa province will never forget the feeling of listening to President Ho Chi Minh’s New Year poem.
“People in our village gathered under the public loudspeaker to listen to President Ho Chi Minh’s poem. We eagerly awaited that moment”, Mr. Khiem said.
For veteran and poet Nguyen Trong Tao, President Ho Chi Minh’s New Year poems still echo today.
“When I joined the army in 1969, a song set to President Ho Chi Minh’s poem was heard all along our march. It was like a star guiding our fight for national unification”, Mr. Tao said.
