Hanoi (VNA) – The 45-year history of thePresident Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum has been introduced to Vietnamese andinternational friends through 180 photos on display at anexhibition that opened in Hanoi on August 27.
The photos feature the construction of the mausoleum,the protection and maintenance of President Ho’s body, and the operation thePresident Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Guard High Command and Management Board.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Colonel Pham VanHieu, Deputy Political Commissar of the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum GuardHigh Command, said the exhibition gives an insight into the sound, timelyleadership of the Vietnamese Party, State, Central Military Commission,and Ministry of National Defence, as well as the friendship andwholehearted support of the Government and experts of the former SovietUnion (now Russia) in preserving the President’s body and building themausoleum.
The exhibition is scheduled to last until September10.
President Ho Chi Minh passed away on September 2,1969. In the following days, his body was embalmed.
His embalmed body is placed in a glass coffin insidethe granite mausoleum, which was modeled after Lenin’s tomb in Moscow.
The mausoleum has become an important landmark of thecapital city and is integral to the political and social history of Vietnam./.