Editing Ho Chi Minh (section)

===Depictions of Hồ Chí Minh===
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[[File:Ho-chi-Minh with children (7).jpg|thumb|Ho Chí Minh pictured with children in a photo by state media]]
Busts, statues, and memorial plaques and exhibitions are displayed in destinations on his extensive world journey in exile from 1911 to 1941 including France, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and Thailand.<ref>[https://www.vietnambreakingnews.com/2017/05/the-places-where-president-ho-chi-minh-lived-and-worked-in-thailand/ The places where President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked in Thailand] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706202049/https://www.vietnambreakingnews.com/2017/05/the-places-where-president-ho-chi-minh-lived-and-worked-in-thailand/ |date=6 July 2017 }}, Vietnam Breaking News, 19 May 2017</ref>

Many activists and musicians wrote songs about Hồ Chí Minh and his revolution in different languages during the Vietnam War to demonstrate against the United States. Spanish songs were composed by [[Félix Pita Rodríguez]], [[Carlos Puebla]] and [[Alí Primera]]. In addition, the Chilean folk singer [[Víctor Jara]] referenced Hồ Chí Minh in his [[anti-war song]] "El derecho de vivir en paz" ("The Right to Live in Peace"). [[Pete Seeger]] wrote "Teacher Uncle Ho". [[Ewan MacColl]] produced "The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh" in 1954, describing "a man who is the father of the Indo-Chinese people, And his name [it] is Ho Chi Minh."<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/fjzMWumVhV8 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150112033410/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjzMWumVhV8&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |title=The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh – Ewan MacColl with the London Critics Group |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjzMWumVhV8 |website=Youtube | date=19 May 2011 |access-date=21 June 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Russian songs about him were written by [[Vladimir Fere]], and German songs about him were written by [[Kurt Demmler]].{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

Various places, boulevards, and squares are named after him around the world, especially in [[List of socialist states|Socialist states and former Communist states]]. In Russia, there is a [[Ho Chi Minh monument|Hồ Chí Minh square and monument]] in Moscow, a Hồ Chí Minh boulevard in [[Saint Petersburg]], and a Hồ Chí Minh square in [[Ulyanovsk]] (the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin, a sister city of [[Vinh]], the birthplace of Hồ Chí Minh). During the Vietnam War, the then-[[West Bengal]] government, in the hands of [[CPI(M)]], renamed Harrington Street to Ho Chi Minh Sarani, which is also the location of the consulate general of the United States in [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/layers-of-history-most-indian-street-names-honour-little-men-for-the-wrong-reasons/cid/1022991|title=Layers of History – Most Indian street names honor little men for the wrong reasons|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref> According to the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Vietnam)|Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs]], as many as 20 countries across Asia, Europe, America and Africa have erected monuments or statues in remembrance of Hồ Chí Minh.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tuoitrenews.vn/politics/39214/remembering-vietnams-late-president-ho-chi-minh-in-foreign-countries|title=Remembering Vietnam's late President Ho Chi Minh in foreign countries – Tuoi Tre News|date=4 December 2014 }}</ref>