​Our beloved President Ho Chi Minh passed away 55 years ago. His Testament is a priceless historical document, featuring his wholehearted instructions and all aspirations of his life. It is the quintessence of the nation and the humankind, and also the quintessence of the lofty ideology, morality, style and soul of a great man, a national liberation hero, a world cultural celebrity.

Humanitarianism, humanism and philosophy of life are reflected in his testament, taking practice as the starting point, taking liberation and human development as the goal. It is a philosophy of action, ethics of being human, ethics of work. He wrote in his testament that the first thing he wanted to mention was care for humans. He advised that all work is aimed at serving people, helping people develop comprehensively, sothat people can master themselves, have freedom, and have a prosperous and happy life. According to President Ho Chi Minh, it is a work that must be done, no matter how difficult and complicated it is, we must try our best to do it.

President Ho Chi Minh in his office at Viet Bac resistance base

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In his testament, the President stressed the importance of implementing a special policy for people who sacrificed for the Fatherland. He told the Party to continue the tradition of national heroes of mentioning things that needed to be done after the war – showing gratitude and caring for revolutionary contributors. For the wounded soldiers, sick soldiers, we must by all means take care of and create favorable conditions, provide a safe place to live, open appropriate vocational training classes sothat they have the necessary tools in life. For the martyrs, each locality needs to build flower gardens and memorial stele to pay tribute their heroic sacrifices, to educate the spirit of patriotism for current and future generations. When families and relatives of war invalids and martyrs encounter difficulties, local authorities must support and help them overcome such circumstances. For farmers, he proposed to exempt agricultural taxes for one year, so that the people could be more excited and boost production after many years they have continuously tried to contribute the labor force, the wealth, and endure hardships for the cause of fighting for national liberation, gaining independence and freedom for the Fatherland...

The profound philosophy of life, imbued with humanism is reflected in the sacred testament, with the unswerving desire to "build Vietnam into a peaceful, united, independent, democratic, and prosperous country, making worthy contribution to international revolution". He proposed a thoughtful, comprehensive social policy towards people. He not only cared about people's lives but above all took care of educating and training them, making them the core force to successfully build the socialism in our country. He asked us to amend the educational regime to suit the new circumstances, especially taking care of revolutionary moral education, patriotism for union members and young people, and training them to become the next generation to build a socialist society that is both "moral" and "professional".

President Ho Chi Minh with the children

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His philosophy of life is a combination of noble humanitarianism and profound humanistic thought. The source of humanitarianism and humanity is the compassionate tradition of the Vietnamese people, combined with the compassionate tradition of humanity. The core content of humanitarianism and humanistic ideology is love and respect for people, associated with passionate patriotism. The noble goal of humanitarianism and humanity is national liberation, social liberation, and human liberation. The method of implementation of that humanism is action, practical revolutionary activity.

Born and grown up in a nation that had a thousand-year tradition of patriotism, a humane culture and a burning desire for a good life, but suffered the injustice, the oppression and exploitation of colonialism, Nguyen Ai witnessed the pain of living in a seperated and dominated country; the humiliation of slavery. He left the homeland to seek a path for saving the country from colonialism. He decided to leave the country with a burning determination: “Freedom for my compatriots, independence for my Fatherland, those are all I want, those are all I understand.”. He had thrown himself into a 30-year odyssey that was full of hardships and challenges with the noble goal of seeking a path for the nation and searching for independence, freedom, and well-being for the people.

The simplicity of President Ho Chi Minh (Source: https://www.bqllang.gov.vn/)

With that realistic thought, his philosophy of life became a philosophy of life in action. People cannot pursue happiness for themselves by sitting still and waiting for it to be given to them from somewhere outside, but must take action and conduct practical activities to gain happiness for themselves and their people. According to him, humanitarianism and humanistic ideas must be expressed into action, into practical revolutionary activities according to the philosophy of human action.

Uncle Ho's philosophy is really special for its love toward humans. Without a philosophy of human action, noble humanitarianism and profound humanistic thought, he would be impossible to have such a perspective of contributing one's own self for the sake of humanity. He believed that the number one goal when the country was still immersed in slavery was national liberation. When the country was independent, the top goal and central task was to build socialism. Socialism must first be a society for people. It is that human philosophy that has instilled in him the belief in the ultimate victory of building the socialism in our country

With that philosophy of life, before returning to eternity, the President believed that the next generation would continue the work of building a new society, the fight against what was old and damaged (bureaucracy, waste...) to create new and good things. Although it would meet many challenges but come to success certainly./.