Uncle Ho's teachings when he visited Vinh Thanh commune remain valuable forever.

On December 10, 1961, during his second visit to Nghe An, Uncle Ho visited Vinh Thanh (Yen Thanh district), where there was a cooperative movement and tree planting and afforestation. Nearly 46 years have passed, but his teachings will forever be great lessons for generations of cadres and party members to learn and follow.

* Lesson one: Speak in a way that is easy for people to hear and understand.

During his lifetime, Uncle Ho always taught cadres and party members: "When talking to ethnic minorities and people with limited education, you must pay attention to making it easy to understand"... "Always remember to tell propaganda documents to whom"... Uncle Ho himself said and did so. When he reminded and encouraged the people of Vinh Thanh to enthusiastically compete in labor production, irrigation, fertilizers and sanitation: "Although Vinh Thanh Cooperative has many people say: progress, it is too little, so Uncle Ho added a few more things... Water is needed for rice, corn, potatoes, cassava... and other plants. Can you go a day without drinking water?" ("No, sir").

So, you guys don't let the trees get thirsty... "People need to eat to live; trees also need to eat to live. Can people live without eating? (No, sir) so we have to make a lot of compost..." Sanitation is still poor. Houses are not clean. Roads are not clean. Proverb says: A clean house is cool, clean dishes are delicious... So from inside the house to outside, we need to pay more attention to what we eat and wear"...

Uncle Ho's teachings were simple, friendly, easy to listen to, easy to understand, and went into the hearts of the people, each sentence and each word. They became the driving force to promote emulation movements of the people of the whole commune in irrigation, green manure, improving production tools and the movement of "clean villages, good fields"... in the following years.

* Second lesson: "The people are the masters, all power and strength are in the people."

He highly appreciated democracy: "Democracy is the most precious thing of the people...". "Democracy is the universal key that can solve all difficulties". Talking to the people of Vinh Thanh, Uncle taught: "The people are the masters, the members are the masters. The management board works to serve the boss, not to sit and point fingers, forcing others to do this and that"... Uncle reminded the cadres: "The management board is the people chosen and elected by the members. Before doing any work of the cooperative, the management board must discuss it with the members, ask for their opinions"... "Every worker wants to know how much they have produced, what they have done with the produced things? Regarding financial matters, finance must be public, income and expenditure must be reported to the members, the management board must be transparent... If income and expenditure are not public, the books are messy, the members will easily suspect that the management board has "sucked" in it"...

Uncle Ho's teachings clearly demonstrate his ideological viewpoint: Of the people, by the people and for the people.

Our Party and State have concretized that ideological viewpoint through the Politburo's directives and the Government's Decrees on the regulations for implementing democracy at the grassroots level, aiming to concretize the motto: "People know, people discuss, people do, people inspect". The implementation process has had a positive impact, arousing creativity, promoting the internal strength of the entire people in the work of building and developing the economy, protecting national defense and security, improving people's lives and building a new life.

However, the organization and implementation of democratic regulations in many agencies, communes, wards, towns, and state-owned enterprises are still "staged" in appearance, but in reality, they violate the provisions of democratic regulations, even seriously in some places. The degradation of the quality and morality of a number of cadres and party members, taking advantage of their positions to commit corruption, is causing no small harm to the renovation process. To combat this evil, there is no better way than to rely on the people, as Uncle Ho taught: "To combat bureaucracy and corruption, we must be democratic."

* Lesson three: Unite and care for the people's interests.

Talking to the cadres and members of Vinh Thanh, he advised: "Without solidarity, the cooperative cannot progress... the cooperative must be united and produce well to increase the overall income of the cooperative and the individual income of the members, improving the lives of the members."

Reflecting on Uncle Ho's teachings, we see that "Unity and caring for the people's interests" is a factor that promotes the process of social development. However, the reality of unity within the Party at some bases and people's unity in some localities has many complicated problems.

To solve the problem of solidarity, cadres and party members need to follow Uncle Ho's words: "Put the people's interests first; maintain close contact with the people; discuss everything with the people, explain to the people clearly; if there are shortcomings, honestly criticize them before the people and welcome their criticism; be willing to learn from the people; be a model of diligence, thrift, integrity, and uprightness for the people to follow."

To effectively carry out the campaign "Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's moral example", the lessons learned from Uncle Ho's teachings during his second visit to his hometown in Vinh Thanh commune must be widely disseminated.

Xuan Phung