Youth union members made incense offering ceremony at Hoa Lo Prison Monument.
With the theme of “Writing the march”, the youth union members were exchanged with Major General, Hero of the People’s Armed Forces Nguyen Duc Minh – former Director of the Institute of Public Security and Strategy, former prison chief. treatment of Hoa Lo prison.
During wartime, the desire of youth was only the word -“peace” for the nation and Major General, Hero of the People’s Armed Forces Nguyen Duc Minh was also one of the young people full of enthusiasm and love for the country. Born and raised in Lo Duc Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi, Major General Nguyen Duc Minh participated in revolutionary activities very early. In March 1946, while studying Buoi School (now Chu Van An School), he stood in the team of the pioneering Youth League to Hoang Dieu and was honored to be in the Party’s ranks since November 1949. During the years of revolutionary participation, during the anti-French colonial period, he was a brave, intrepid scout of the Department of Public Security of Ha Noi.
In May 1948, Nguyen Duc Minh was captured by the enemy and taken to the North Vietnamese Secret Service (now the Department of Public Security of Ha Noi.) for detention and torture. Without exploiting any information from him, at the beginning of June 1948, the enemy explained that he and some other comrades were detained at Hoa Lo Prison.
At the end of August 1948, the enemy gathered prisoners and sent them to work for labor. From Hoa Lo Prison, they took prisoners through Hai Phong to the prison of the barracks of Tien Yen town (now the headquarters of Tien Yen district – Quang Ninh province). Every day, Mr. Nguyen Duc Minh and other brothers have to go to the stone dam to build Road No. 4, from Tien Yen to Dinh Lap, Lang Son.
Youth union members listened to touching stories and were proud of the brave soldier Nguyen Duc Minh and his teammates.
In October 1948, while working as a hard labour in the French army camp at Khe Tu, taking advantage of the enemy’s loopholes, Nguyen Duc Minh and his teammate Nguyen Sy Van escaped but failed. This is the first time Khe Tu had prisoner escaping, the enemy tied the two to the pillar in the middle of the camp gate and brutally beat it to intimidate the other prisoners.
In December 1948, while carrying stones at the construction site, Nguyen Duc Minh and his teammates tried to escape. In order to search for the whereabouts of prisoner, the enemy informs all the garrison systems and gangs, from Tien Yen to Dinh Lap. Due to the experience from the previous escape, they hid in the forest during the day and departed at night. Overcoming many hardships and difficulties during the trip, in early 1949, Nguyen Duc Minh found an old unit at that time stationed in Dong Quan, Ung Hoa district, Ha Tay province.
After returning from prison to the organization, Mr. Nguyen Duc Minh continued his work and participated in revolutionary activities until the North was completely liberated. On October 10, 1954, in the army heading to liberate the Capital, as a police officer in Hanoi, Mr. Nguyen Duc Minh participated in taking over the Hoa Lo jail and the headquarters of the North Vietnam Police Department (No. 87 Tran Hung Dao Street) where he and his comrades had been tortured and detained during the resistance against the French colonialists.
During the resistance war against the US, he wrote a voluntary application “go B” with many years of “tasting spines” in the battlefield of zone VI.
Through two long-term resistance wars of the Vietnamese nation, the elite children with “bare feet” entered the war with the enemy with “steel lice”. That “steel” has been crystallized and burnt into extraordinary strength, helping them overcome all hardships and tribulations with every challenge, to gain independence and happiness for the people. History always resonates through beautiful melodies and stories that Major General Nguyen Duc Minh sent to the young generation today.
The delegation visited the display of “Spring fire” and took souvenir photos here.
The rewritten history of construction and national defense, has been published in newspaper pages, in published publications, but the stories told from historical witnesses have always been a source of arousing the most sincere emotion for each of us. The memory of history, of a youthful period always reminds us that the once-young stories always accompany blood, tears and flowers.
Today, the war has moved far away, the country of Vietnam is living in peace, the youth’s generation has made great contribution to get that freedom. The desire for a independent country has been created and affirmed by the youth generation.
The contributions and sacrifices of the previous generation have created the spring of happiness for the nation, and today, those spring still bloom to help further the national pride and responsibility of each Vietnamese people, especially the responsibility of the young generation in the construction and protection of their homeland.
In the past 88 years, with youth and enthusiasm, with unshakable faith and absolute loyalty to the Party, the nation, the generation of cadres, union members, young people today have been proud to continue the glorious tradition of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.
Bao Nhi