Hanoi (VNA) – A delegation of the Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Vietnam Fatherland Front’s Committee of Hanoi on November 7 laid a basket of flower at the statue of Vladimir Ilych Lenin in Ba Dinh district’s Chi Lang Parkto to mark the 98th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution (November 7, 1917).
The delegation was led by Vice Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee and Chairwoman of the municipal People’s Council Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc.
The city’s leaders also expressed their respect for Lenin for his great contributions to the world’s revolutionary cause.
Lenin is one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century, who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917. He was the architect and first leader of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).-VNA