Pre-revolutionary cadres of my hometown
When I was still working in Hanoi, I had the opportunity to visit house C4 on the 4th floor of the Kim Lien apartment complex to visit my uncle Le Van Ngoi, who is currently an officer of the Ministry of Public Security. In a warm family atmosphere, he told me about the memorable days of his life working to prepare for the seizure of power in 1945, in his hometown...
(Baonghean)When I was still working in Hanoi, I had the opportunity to visit house C4 on the 4th floor of the Kim Lien apartment complex to visit my uncle Le Van Ngoi, who is currently an officer of the Ministry of Public Security. In a warm family atmosphere, he told me about the memorable days of his life working to prepare for the seizure of power in 1945, in his hometown...
In 1948, he held the position of Secretary of the Thanh Duong Commune Party Cell (including the two communes of Ma Thanh and Lang Thanh) of Yen Thanh District, then gradually matured in the two resistance wars against the French colonialists and the American imperialists, becoming an officer of the Ministry of Public Security. After many years of participating in the revolution until his retirement, he still lived in apartment C4 on the 4th floor of the Kim Lien collective housing area that the State assigned to his family while he was still working.
Comrade Nguyen Van Linh - former General Secretary of the Party Central Committee visited, talked and presented gifts to Hung Dung traditional house (formerly in Red Village, now Hung Dung ward, Vinh city) - 1990. Photo: KH
As for Mr. Phan Quang Di, he both taught and participated in revolutionary activities. In 1945, he was the head of the uprising committee to seize power in the commune. In 1949, he became the Party Secretary of Thanh Duong commune, then left to participate in revolutionary activities. In more than 40 years of teaching, he was the principal of many schools: Nguyen Hue High School (Ha Dong district - Hanoi), Southern Students' School, Social Sciences Pedagogical School, Dan Phuong High School (Hanoi)... He lived a very simple life, got along with teachers and students, and had the ability to mobilize and gather the masses and do a good job of advising the local Party Committee and government, so in every school he built the school into an excellent advanced school. Many of the students who studied with him became successful. There are people who have become leaders of our Party and State such as Mr. Truong Quang Duoc (former Vice Chairman of the National Assembly), Mr. Nguyen Canh Dinh (former Minister of Agriculture, Head of the Office of the President)... His whole life is a long series of sacrifices. The day he entered the teaching profession with a new bicycle and when he retired in his hometown, he still rode that bicycle.
Mr. Le Van Luan, born and raised in the Soviet homeland of Nghe - Tinh, together with his brother Le Van Nam, hid secret revolutionary cadres in his hometown and joined the homeland's National Salvation Army, then became a key cadre of the village and commune. In 1950, he held the position of Secretary of the Thanh Duong commune Party Cell, then escaped to join the resistance war against the French colonialists. In 1954, he was Secretary of the civilian labor battalion serving Central Laos, then became Head of the Production Steering Committee of Nghe An province, then Deputy Manager of Viet Lam Farm (Nghe An).
During the years of dedication to the national defense cause, his two eldest daughters passed away one after another, and his family's circumstances were too difficult, so he asked to return to work in his hometown. In key positions in the commune and cooperative, he always wondered how to advance the cooperative movement, how to turn the arid lands that could only grow one crop a year, relying on the heavens, into wet rice areas with two crops of rice and lush villages. So he and the Party Committee of Ma Thanh commune decided to build an irrigation dam to bring water to irrigate the dry and thirsty fields. With the district's approval, the Bon Vang dam project was born, and he was assigned by the Party Committee of the commune to command the construction site. Traveling through the mountains and forests, he and the people of Ma Thanh commune successfully built the Bon Vang dam irrigation project, bringing water to irrigate the Tan Yen area, turning this dry and thirsty land into a wet rice area with two crops of rice each year, lush villages.
Uncle Tran Dinh Duc was a local revolutionary, and together with the people in the commune, he rose up to seize power for the people in the August Revolution of 1945 in his hometown. In 1951, he held the position of Secretary of the Thanh Duong Commune Party Cell, then Secretary of the Yen Thanh District Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Organization Department of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee. After that, he became a Central official and was appointed by the Party and State as an advisor to Laos. On his retirement day, he returned to his hometown to enjoy time with his children and grandchildren...
How many pre-uprising activists from the Soviet homeland of Nghe - Tinh have devoted their entire lives to their homeland and country, leaving us the reason to live as human beings!
Le Anh Choi
