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Truong Chinh
orig. Dang Xuan Khu born Feb. 9, 1907, Ha Nam Ninh province, Viet. died Sept. 30, 1988, Hanoi Vietnamese statesman, writer, and communist intellectual. He was an anticolonialist activist as a youth, joining Ho Chi Minh in 1928. He became a teacher and joined the Indochinese Communist Party, becoming its secretary-general in 1941. With Vo Nguyen Giap he developed the strategy that led to a Vietnamese victory over the Japanese occupation forces in 1945. With Le Duan (1908-86) and Pham Van Dong (1906-2000) he ruled North Vietnam after Ho's death in 1969