The Communist leaders were deceased, and the people cried and showed their sympathy, despite the fact that the leaders had killed millions of people and ruled the country with the cruel policy.
The record of the most tearful funerals in the world was for Mao Tse-Tung, who died on September 9, 1976. He has to respond to the deaths of sixty-five million people, but Kim Il-sung with 1.6 million . . .
However, in the democratic country, the death of leaders like the president and prime minister do not drop so many tears and show up in the people’s sympathy, despite the fact that some leaders contributed their great work to the country and the world. The funerals of Ronald Reagan, Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, and Nelson Mandela, etc., did not have many tears; there were just some family members and close friends. Therefore, their funerals celebrated their contributions to the country, and sometimes the bands played music for the religious worship.
Hòa has never lived in North Korea, but he has knowledge about Hồ Chí Minh’s funeral from his friend, Mr. Nguyễn Ngọc Nga, who was a former professor at Hanoi University since 1957 and is also the author of twenty books written in the Vietnamese language, including the Dictionary of Russian Preposition and Verbs. Hòa spoke to him by long-distance telephone, and he wanted to tell the world about the funeral of Hồ Chí Minh, which he calls “the evil’s funeral,” but he can’t write English, so Hòa has promised, if he has an opportunity, he will tell the story.
Mr. Nguyễn Ngọc Nga, of South Vietnamese background, retreated to the North after the Geneva Treaty was signed, but he was wrong when he joined the Communist regime. He told his concerns about the Communists and their leader Hồ Chí Minh, and after winning the war in 1975, he escaped in 1980, and has lived overseas as a refugee. His memory and the Communist experts are valued as live witnesses.
Hồ Chí Minh was a super lie, dishonest, and cruel. In 1965, he felt his health was declining, so he secretly ordered Mr. Võ Thúc Đồng, who was ambassador to Russia, and commercial representative, Nguyễn Tu, to sign off on the embalmed body contract with a Russian scientist team. Therefore, two high-ranking cadres, who didn’t have a high level of the Russian language, had the document held by an interpreter, Trần Hữu Lạc.
When Hồ Chí Minh died on September 2, 1969, the Russians sent a special airplane to Hanoi and took the body to Russia for mummification. The cost was expensive, even though they had a close relationship with Josef Stalin. When the Mongolian Communist leader, Khorloogiin Choibalson, died on January 26, 1952, the Communist party gave up the embalmed body because of the pricey cost, and instead, they buried him in the homeland.
The Vietcong lied; they launched the propaganda about Hồ Chí Minh’s funeral. Through the propaganda machine, the Communist regime broadcast Hồ Chí Minh’s will, and said he wanted to be cremated, but the party didn’t do it.
However, in reality, Hồ Chí Minh had prepared his funeral and decided what would happen after his death four years before, and he was like the Egyptian king with the pyramid tomb. As Mr. Nguyễn Ngọc Nga revealed, after Hồ Chí Minh had been dead a few days, the Communist party appealed to the labourer to build the mausoleum, and the worker had to be reliable and chosen by the central Communist party, mostly the middle-ranking cadre position.
Hồ Chí Minh’s death on September 2, 1969 coincided with the so-called national foundation, the same day in 1945 when Hồ Chí Minh declared at Ba Đình Square, Hanoi, but the Vietcong had to move to the next day.
The funeral lasted ten days, and the Communist party and its government strictly banned all shopping, markets, funerals, weddings, celebrations, festivals, entertainment and others; instead, all served for the leader’s funeral only. In Hồ Chí Minh’s era, there was a man named Lâm Văn Hồ, who was an excrement picker from the colonial French’s period. During this time, the inside housing toilet was not popular, and the resident used the ceramic pot for defecation. Unfortunately, Mr. Lâm Văn Hồ was called by the nickname Uncle Hồ, so he was killed by an accident arranged by Hồ Chí Minh. Despite this, his son, Lâm Văn Tế, who was a Communist member, was killed by a hand grenade that exploded when thrown into the market in the war fought against the colonial French.
In Hanoi, there is a man who believes the number nine is lucky, his name is Huy, and he was born on September 9, 1939 (9-9-1939) at 9:00 p.m. His family lived in the Hàng Mã region, and the residents lived on the paper arts work that made the house from paper for the deceased person as the religious worship. The job and business have been present from the dynasty era, but when the Communist ruled, the government limited this, and the family faced difficulty.
A few years ago, Huy, and a girl named Kim Hương, she lived in the Hàng Lược region, were in love, and both families decided the wedding day would be celebrated on September 9, 1969 as Huy believed nine was a lucky number. Unfortunately, this most important day of the couple fell in the Hồ Chí Minh’s funeral period. But Huy didn’t want to change it, and both families agreed to that set day.
On the afternoon of September 9, 1969, the groom’s family took nineteen pedicabs with the wedding gifts toward the bridal place, and as is the custom, the groom’s family took the bride to the groom’s house and would also celebrate with a party with the family members, relatives, and friends.
The groom’s family had just appeared at the main road when they were stopped by the local public security guard, and then they all were forced to go back home. The guards closed the door and beat the groom, breaking his skull. Huy died instantly, and his grandmother was beaten unconscious. His parents had the same fate; they received the heavy torture and were handcuffed and then taken to Hỏa Lò prison camp. (It was the Hanoi Hilton in the Vietnam War.)
The bridal family waited for them, but they didn’t know the horrible impact, until eventually, Kim Hương lost patience, and she took a foo bike to Huy’s home, where she was collapsed when the door opened. The wedding day turned into a funeral.
Nobody knows about Hồ Chí Minh’s funeral, except the witnesses and those who lived in Hanoi during the ten-day funeral period. Hồ Chí Minh’s death became the crying epidemic, the cadre from local to central cried by untold policy, and actually, the low-ranking cadre had to cry and spin a long and louder yarn, because the high-ranking cadre were marked and later promoted. On the other hand, if someone had not shown the deep sympathy to the beloved leader, they would have been in trouble for the vague crime of counterrevolution.
The death of Kim Jong-Il, or later on, with Fidel Castro it will be the same, the world will know how most Communist leader’s funerals have many people crying and showing sympathy more than their parents. In Vietnam, sometimes the wealthy family hires someone to cry in the funeral. But in the Communist country, people are forced to cry and show sympathy; therefore, it is all lies and cheating. How come the people cry for the cruel leader?
Hồ Chí Minh was named to the list of thirteen most massacres in the twentieth century by Poland, The Polska Newspaper, which was published on March 5, 2013. He killed 1,700,000 people during his rule. In 1929, Hồ Chí Minh was on the run while the French secret agent and Chiang Kai-Shek government looked for this most wanted man who was sent to Asia by the Soviet Union for propaganda and expansion of the Communist movement. Hồ hid in the Vietnamese community, but Hồ raped a fifteen-year-old teenager named Tuyết Lan, who was a daughter of Mrs. Tình, a Vietnamese who lived in Thailand.
England is a democratic country that respects human rights, condemns the rapist, and respects the teenager, but the town of NewHaven honored Hồ Chí Minh by placing his statue in the museum on May 19, 2013, his one hundred and twenty-third birthday.
Hòa wrote a letter to the city council, but they ignored him, and the Vietnamese community in the United Kingdom launched the petition.
The Vietcong uses the diplomatic relationship for conspiracy, they convince some town, city, or somewhere else around the world to display Hồ Chí Minh’s statue, like the town of Newhaven. The statue of a murderer and rapist could harm the prestige of the country, so the Western states have to wake up and be aware.