Nguyễn Chí Thanh
Nguyễn Chí Thanh (1 January 1914 – 6 July 1967) was a General in the North Vietnamese
Vietnam People's Army and former North Vietnamese politician. Nguyễn Chí Thanh was born in
Thừa Thiên Province in Central Vietnam to a peasant family. His original name was Nguyễn Văn Vịnh. He joined the
Indochinese Communist Party in the mid-1930s and apparently spent most of the Second World War in a French prison. He worked for the Party in Central Vietnam until his rise to the
Politburo in 1951. During the
First Indochina War Thanh was made a general of the People's Army of Vietnam. From 1965 until his death, he served as the leading strategist and military commander of
COSVN, the southern headquarters of communist military and political operations within the
Republic of Vietnam. In 1967, he presented plans for what was to become the
Tet Offensive to the Politburo, but died shortly after receiving permission to implement his plan.
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