Le Duan

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Le Duan was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary and politician who served as the de facto top leader of North Vietnam during most of the Vietnam War and later of a reunified Vietnam.

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Label Occurrences
Le Duan canonical 4
Duẩn 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Vietnamese politician
communist revolutionary
general secretary
human
birthName Lê Văn Nhuận
burialPlace Hanoi
Mai Dich Cemetery
causeOfDeath heart failure
conflictParticipatedIn First Indochina War
Vietnam War
countryOfCitizenship Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
dateOfBirth 1907-04-07
dateOfDeath 1986-07-10
deFactoLeaderOf Democratic Republic of Vietnam
surface form: North Vietnam

Viet Nam
surface form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
ethnicGroup Kinh people
ideology Marxism–Leninism
communism
memberOf Communist Party of Vietnam
Indochinese Communist Party
movement Vietnamese nationalism
surface form: Vietnamese independence movement

anti-colonialism
national liberation movement
name Le Duan self-link
notableFor being de facto top leader of North Vietnam after Ho Chi Minh
central role in shaping postwar Vietnamese economic and political policy
hardline stance toward the United States during the Vietnam War
notableWork leadership in the Tet Offensive planning
political strategy of protracted people’s war in South Vietnam
numberOfChildren 3
officeEndTime 1986-07-10
officeStartTime 1960-09-05
placeOfBirth Annam
surface form: Annam, French Indochina

Quang Tri Province
placeOfDeath Hanoi
Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
politicalAlignment pro-Soviet
positionHeld General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
surface form: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
predecessor Ho Chi Minh
significantEvent implementation of socialist transformation in South Vietnam
leadership of North Vietnam during most of the Vietnam War
leadership of reunified Vietnam after 1975
role in the 1975 Fall of Saigon
spouse Pham Thi Bang
successor Truong Chinh
workedIn Hanoi
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
surface form: North Vietnam

Saigon
South Vietnam

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Le Duan name Le Duan self-link
Lê Duẩn givenName Le Duan
this entity surface form: Duẩn