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Article: Truong Chinh, a founder of Viet Communist Party
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 2, 1988
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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Truong Chinh, 81, a hard-line Marxist
ideologue who helped found Vietnam's Communist Party and served as
its leader, died from injuries suffered in a fall, the Vietnam News
Agency said Saturday.
Communist literature once lauded Mr. Chinh as "the first builder
and commander of the Vietnam revolution." He served twice as party
chief, once in the 1950s and again in 1986.
U.S. government documents described him as Vietnam's most hated
leader, having the mind of a "fanatic." French historian Bernard
Fall estimated 50,000 people were executed in his drive to "reform"
the North Vietnamese countryside during the 1950s.
The official news agency said Mr. Chinh died at ...