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Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyá»…n Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyá»…n Ái Quốc (19 May 1890 – 3 September 1969) was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).<br/><br/>

He formed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War until his death. Hồ led the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu.<br/><br/>

He lost political power inside North Vietnam in the late 1950s, but remained as the highly visible figurehead president until his death.
Karl Berngardovich Radek  (31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a Marxist active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and an international Communist leader in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution.<br/><br/>

He helped to write the 1936 Soviet Constitution, but during the Great Purge of the 1930s, he was accused of treason and confessed. He was sentenced to 10 years of penal labor.<br/><br/>

He was killed in prison by an NKVD operative under direct orders from Lavrentiy Beria.