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NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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| 1934 | Ho returned to Moscow in early 1934 for attendance at political schools. First attended Institute for National and Political Questions in Moscow. Later attended "graduate school" for senior communist leaders, the Lenin School. (Stalin purges 1935–1938 did not involve Ho. Apparently, unconditionally loyal to Stalin, Ho had to adopt new party line of "popular front" as a result of emerging Nazism.) |
| 1935 | Moscow schools. |
| 1936 | Moscow schools. |
| 1937 | With Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army in China. Also located in Kunming at one time. |
| 1938 | With Eighth Route Army as communications operator. (Popular Front collapsed in France.) |
| 1939 | (French Communist Party dissolved in September at outbreak of World War II.) Ho addressed report to Comintern on success of "popular front" policy in Far East. ICP Central Committee at November congress adopted new Comintern "anti-war" line of Stalin-Hitler pact. |
| 1940 | In late 1940, Ho was Political Commissar of a Chinese Communist guerrilla training mission under General Yeh Chien-ying training nationalists at Liuchow, Kwang-Si Province. (In June, France fell to Hitler.) Ho headed external directing Bureau of ICP in Kunming, China, in September. (French crushed Saigon insurrection of ICP, 22 November 1940. Numerous arrests followed.) |
| 1941 | Ho turned up in Moscow, and thence travelled to Yenan with Nguyen Thanh Toan, Vietnamese teacher at Moscow University. Crossed into Vietnam at Cao Bang Province in February. Organized Viet Minh (Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi) on 19 May, as a "united front" group of Vietnamese nationalists in China. Organized resistance movement in northern Tonkin. |
| 1942 | Ho was arrested by Chinese warlord on August 28 as a French spy (and jailed for 13 months) after crossing border into China to make contact with Chinese and emigre groups. (October 10, the KMT-controlled Vietnam Revolutionary League — Dong Minh Hoi — was recognized by Chinese Marshal Chang Fa-kuei. |
| 1943 | In prison until 16 September, Ho was released to gather information on Japanese troop movements in Indochina for Chinese. |
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