The one who sows the red seeds

NIn 1925, in Guangzhou (China), leader Nguyen Ai Quoc selected a number of patriotic Vietnamese youths, established the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, and opened political training classes.Photo of painting by Artist Phi Hoanh), showing the enthusiastic youth which path to take, what to do to save the people and the country.

His lectures at political training classes were compiled and published in the book The Revolutionary Path. This was not only a bedside book and handbook for the first generation of revolutionaries, but also a torch that illuminated the Vietnamese revolution to its final victory.

Among the key comrades who were always close to and assisted leader Nguyen Ai Quoc were comrades Le Hong Son and Ho Tung Mau, who were teaching assistants for these political training classes.

Photos of Vietnamese youths attending political training classes in Guangzhou taught directly by Nguyen Ai Quoc from 1925-1926, including comrades Le Duy Diem, Ngo Thiem... During this period, in Nghe Tinh, comrade Vo Trong An and his cousin Vo Trong Canh were the guides for Red seeds such as Le Hong Phong, Le Thiet Hung, and Pham Hong Thai to go abroad to Siam on their journey to join leader Nguyen Ai Quoc in Guangzhou (China).

Comrades Vo Mai and Tran Van Cung were outstanding sons of Nghe Tinh homeland who were directly trained by Nguyen Ai Quoc in Guangzhou and then sent back to the country to establish a base of operations.

The activities of leader Nguyen Ai Quoc and the Red seeds were closely monitored by French secret police. Here are some French documents and letters of leader Nguyen Ai Quoc sent to the Communist International, the Oriental University during the period from 1924 to 1926. In addition, the newspaper "Thanh Nien" founded by him was also secretly transferred to Vietnam, making an important contribution to the dissemination of Marxism-Leninism, ideology and the path to national liberation.

In 1926, in Guangzhou (China), comrade Nguyen Ai Quoc selected and trained 8 patriotic teenagers to prepare the next generation of cadres for the Vietnamese revolution. In addition to studying, the group of teenagers was assigned to work as liaisons, logistics, and to transport young people from Vietnam to Guangzhou to attend political training classes. Among them, comrade Ly Tu Trong with his famous saying: "The path of youth can only be the path of revolution, and there can be no other path."has gone down in history as a motivator for generations of Vietnamese youth.

The active activities of leader Nguyen Ai Quoc and his excellent students quickly spread Marxism-Leninism widely in Vietnam, contributing to the formation of revolutionary organizations. The organizational system of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association covered the whole country from the General Department down to the Provincial Department and to the grassroots branches.

Comrade Nguyen Luong Bang, from Hai Duong, was the one who brought the work “The Revolutionary Path” to Hai Phong and then transferred it to other localities in the country in the years 1927-1929; The wooden box of comrade Nguyen Xuan Bach, from Dien Chau - Nghe An, was used to transport documents from China to the country; The suitcase of comrade Vo Quoc Thu, from Can Loc - Ha Tinh, was used to hide documents at Trai Cay - Thailand, including the work “Sinking Ship Diary” by leader Nguyen Ai Quoc.

From the first youth generations - the red seeds personally selected and strongly developed by leader Nguyen Ai Quoc of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association and the "Proletarianization" movement in the years 1928-1929 led to the birth of 3 communist organizations in Vietnam: Indochina Communist Party, Annam Communist Party, Indochina Communist Federation. These are the predecessor organizations of the Communist Party of Vietnam founded by leader Nguyen Ai Quoc in the spring of 1930.

When the conditions for the birth of a proletarian party in Vietnam were ripe. On February 3, 1930, leader Nguyen Ai Quoc chaired the conference to unify three communist organizations into a single political party - the Communist Party of Vietnam. This was a brilliant milestone in the history of the Vietnamese revolution. He affirmed, "The establishment of the Party is an extremely important turning point in the history of the Vietnamese revolution, it proves that the proletariat has matured and is capable of leading the revolution..."

The Party founding conference also approved many important documents, including the Party's Brief Platform and the Party's Brief Strategy, which reflected the content of the first Political Platform of the Communist Party of Vietnam. These documents are currently kept at the Party Central Committee Archives.

Organizational chart of the Party and mass organizations in 1930.

16 portraits of Red seeds who have made great contributions to the Vietnamese revolution. And a special thing is that in the first generation of students of leader Nguyen Ai Quoc, many comrades became key cadres of the Communist Party of Vietnam, from Nghe Tinh, such as comrades Tran Phu, Le Hong Phong, Ha Huy Tap, Phan Dang Luu, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Phung Chi Kien, Truong Van Linh...

Born on the same land of poverty and barrenness but rich in patriotic tradition, with the enthusiasm of youth, these young people were soon enlightened with revolutionary ideals, crossed forests and mountains to find the revolutionary ideals of leader Nguyen Ai Quoc and were trained by him to become the Red seeds of the Vietnamese revolution, becoming key cadres, an indispensable part of the core organization of the Communist Party of Vietnam founded in 1930, such as comrades Tran Phu, Le Hong Phong, Ha Huy Tap, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai...

Comrades Nguyen Phong Sac, Nguyen Tiem, and Le Mao were the Red seeds who led the Nghe Tinh Soviet movement, the peak of the 1930-1931 revolutionary movement in their homeland Nghe Tinh.

We would like to respectfully introduce the collection of books about the first generation of communist soldiers - the red seeds of the Vietnamese revolution. The book is published by the National Political Publishing House.