Statues to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi.
The Hanoi People’s Committee has fulfilled a field research for the erection of statues of the late president Ho Chi Minh and Ton Duc Thang in Thong Nhat Park.
The statues are a present from Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee to Hanoi on the occasion of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi.
The statues, cast in copper, show Uncle Ho shaking Uncle Ton’s hand to congratulate him after his election as Vice President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1960.
The statues and their base have a height of more than 8m and will be erected in a tree-lined area on the park’s Thong Nhat Island by the end of the year.
Ho Chi Minh was the first President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1969. Ton Duc Thang was his successor and the second President of the country from 1969 to 1980.
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