Vanguard Youth (Vietnam)
Vanguard Youth (Vietnamese: Thanh Niên Tiền Phong) was a mass youth organization established in Cochinchina on 21 April 1945.[1]
Flag of Vanguard Youth
Vanguard Youth worked as a patriotic, legal organization in the southern part of the country. It was led by Dr. Pham Ngoc Thach of the Indochinese Communist Party. It was established for the purpose of gathering young people to support the fight for the national liberation of Vietnam.[2]
During the summer of 1945, it recruited 200,000 members. Soon, it had over a million members in Cochinchina. Vanguard Youth joined the Viet Minh in August 1945, and embarked in the August Revolution.[3]
Members of the Vanguard Youth in Vietnam (1945)
References
- "Sự ra đời của Thanh niên Tiền phong ở Nam Bộ năm 1945" (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 21 November 2013.
- Nguyễn Kỳ Nam. Hồi ký Nguyễn Kỳ Nam [Memoirs of Nguyen Ky Nam] (in Vietnamese). Vol. 2. p. 73.
- Duiker, William J. (1996). The Communist Road To Power In Vietnam: Second Edition. Routledge.
- David W. P. Elliott (2007). The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975. M.E. Sharpe. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-7656-0603-7.
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