Vanguard Youth (Vietnam)
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Vanguard Youth (Vietnamese: Thanh Niên Tiền Phong), a youth mass organization established in Cochinchina, on April 21, 1945.[1]
Vanguard Youth worked as a patriotic, legal organization in the southern part of the country. It was led by of the Indochinese Communist Party. It was established for the purpose of gathering young people to support the fight for the national liberation of Vietnam.[2]
During the summer of 1945, it recruited 200,000 members. Soon, it had over a million members in Cochinchina. Vanguard Youth joined the Viet Minh in August 1945, and embarked in the August Revolution.
References[]
- ^ "Sự ra đời của Thanh niên Tiền phong ở Nam Bộ năm 1945" (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 21 November 2013.
- ^ Nguyễn Kỳ Nam. Hồi ký Nguyễn Kỳ Nam [Memoirs of Nguyen Ky Nam] (in Vietnamese). 2. p. 73.
- David W. P. Elliott (2007). The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975. M.E. Sharpe. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-7656-0603-7.
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