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Vietnam: Truong Chinh (1907-1988), Nationalist and Communist ideologue.

Vietnam: Truong Chinh (1907-1988), Nationalist and Communist ideologue.

Trường Chinh (pseudonym meaning “Long March”, born Đặng Xuân Khu (1907-1988) was a Vietnamese communist political leader and theoretician. From 1941 to 1957, he was Vietnam's second-ranked communist leader (after Hồ Chí Minh). Following the death of Lê Duẩn in 1986, he was briefly Vietnam's top leader. He is remembered as a communist hard liner.

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