Nguyen chi thien biography of mahatma gandhi
I will start my today's remarks by briefly recapitulating the historic event in Mahatma Gandhi's life which transformed his life's perspective..
He said, 'Give it to other people who need it more than I.' ” The youngest child of a middle-class family, Nguyen Chi Thien was born in Hanoi on Feb. 27,
Nguyễn Chí Thiện
Vietnamese-American dissident, activist and poet
In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Chí Thiện.
Nguyễn Chí Thiện (27 February 1939 – 2 October 2012) was a North Vietnamesedissident, activist and poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years as a political prisoner of the communist regimes of both North Vietnam and of post-1975 Vietnam,[1] before being released and allowed to join the large Overseas Vietnamese community in the United States.
Biography
Chí Thiện was educated in private academies and was a supporter of Viet Minh revolutionaries in his early life. In 1960, however, he challenged the official history of World War II – that the Soviet Unionhad defeated the Imperial Japanese Army in Manchukuo, ending the war – while teaching a high school history class.
Chí Thiện told the class that the United States def