Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu, an outstanding leader of the Vietnamese Party and revolution was highlighted at a workshop held in Bac Ninh province on Friday to mark his 110th birthday, July 9.

The event was organized by the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, the Party Central Committee’s Communications and Education Commission and Bac Ninh Provincial Party Committee.

Nguyen Van Cu was born on July 9, 1912 into a patriotic Confucian family in Phu Khe village, Tu Son district, Bac Ninh province. At the Party Central Committee meeting in March 1938, he was elected Party General Secretary when he was under 26 years of age. On January 18, 1940, he was arrested by French secret agents in Saigon. After the Nam Ky Uprising broke out on November 23, 1940, he was accused by the French of being responsible for the spirit of the uprising. On August 28, 1941, he heroically died of the enemy’s gunshots at a shooting range in Gia Dinh.

Addressing the workshop, Professor, Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, said that although the life of Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu was short, it was beautiful. His great merits and glorious sacrifices have contributed to the glory of the nation and the Party. Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu was a staunch communist and an outstanding theoretician of the Vietnamese Party and revolution, he said.

Source: VOV5