On January 28, 1941, President Ho Chi Minh, then comrade Nguyen Ai Quoc, passed milestone 108, arriving at Pac Bo, Truong Ha commune, Ha Quang district, Cao Bang province (now Truong Ha commune, Cao Bang province) - marking his first step on his homeland after 30 years of wandering to find a way to save the country - the event that started the great victories of the Vietnamese Revolution.
With Kim Dong Publishing House's books such as "Ke chuyen Bac Ho", "Ho Chi Minh - Mot con nguoi va mot dan toc", readers will better understand the domestic and international social context, leading to the decision of Uncle Ho and the Standing Committee of the Central Committee "to return home to participate with comrades": World War II entered a decisive phase, fascism gradually weakened, the mass movement in the country was rising... that was the ripe opportunity for Uncle Ho to return to the Fatherland, directly leading the revolution.
In the book "Following His Footsteps", Prof. Dr. Trinh Quang Phu recounted in detail Uncle Ho's journey back to the Fatherland through the stories "On the Road to the Border" and "Spring Uncle Ho Returns to the Fatherland".
The preparation for the return trip was calculated extremely carefully in every detail to avoid the enemy's eyes and ears lurking everywhere. The journey was very arduous: "Fast fog as thick as walking in clouds, one yard apart and not seeing each other", "uphill, downhill, uphill again. The whole group had to cross the rocky mountainside"...
The moment Uncle Ho set foot on his homeland was described by poet To Huu in the epic poem "Following Uncle Ho" very emotionally:
Oh, this spring morning, Four Seasons of Spring White border forest blooms with apricot blossoms Uncle Ho returns... Silence. The bird sings Saint's song weighing on the edge of the reeds, happily stunned... Uncle Ho has returned here, Fatherland! Remembering the warmth of the land. That person, for thirty years, never rests. But only now has he arrived!
During her secret activities in the forests of Pac Bo, Uncle Ho trained and educated many cadres and masses participating in revolutionary activities. Among them, there was Ms. Nong Thi Trung, a Tay ethnic woman. Born in 1920, participating in the revolution from a very young age, in the years 1941 - 1945, Ms. Nong Thi Trung was one of the young men trained by leader Nguyen Ai Quoc at Pac Bo base, she gradually matured, overcame the thorns in life and work, and became a exemplary and enthusiastic female cadre.
The close and vivid stories in the pages of Kim Dong Publishing House will contribute to helping children and young readers understand more about the first months of Uncle Ho's return to the country to participate in revolutionary activities in Pac Bo, Cao Bang; understand more about Uncle Ho's scientific working style, as well as his simple lifestyle.
Reading books written about Uncle Ho is a way for studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and style to be naturally spread to young people and children nationwide.
