Hundreds of visitors wait in long lines to enter Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum
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- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- May 1997
- Location
- Hanoi, Vietnam
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- This photograph copyright ©1997. Terms of use
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Hundreds of visitors wait in long lines to enter Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum.
Following the tradition of earlier Communist leaders such as Lenin, Stalin, and Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh’s body was embalmed in a glass sarcophagus that is set within a monumental building for public viewing.
