Ho Chi Minh monument

It memorializes North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh, who was the chairman and founder of the Workers' Party of Vietnam.

[1] The monument is made of bronze and stone, with a portrait of Ho Chi Minh embossed on a giant disc.

This decision was seen as counter to Ho Chi Minh's wishes, whose last testament requested no statues or monuments made in his honor.

[3] Secondly, they believed that the cost of more than 1 million roubles for the monument could be better used to build 150 good apartments, helping to alleviate the housing situation in the city.

On April 4, 1990, students in Moscow organized a rally to call on the government to strictly fulfill Ho Chi Minh's will.

According to them, Ho Chi Minh had requested thrice in his wills that people honor him by planting trees, not by building monuments.