Hanoi (VNA) – Asmany as 50,066 people, including 1,462 foreigners, paid tribute to President HoChi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi during the National Day holiday which lastsfrom August 31 to September 2.
The President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Management Board has joined hands with relevantagencies in welcoming visitors, who were served free water bottles and bread onNational Day (September 2).
President Ho Chi Minh passed away on September 2, 1969. In the following days,his body was embalmed by Soviet Union experts and a special Vietnamese medicalteam under a joint agreement between the two governments.
President Ho Chi Minh’s embalmed body is placed in a glass coffin inside thegranite mausoleum, which was modeled after Lenin’s tomb in Moscow.
The mausoleum welcomed about 1.2 million visitors in the first half of 2019. Ithas become an important landmark of the capital city and is integral to thepolitical and social history of Vietnam.-VNA