{"id":"le-duan","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/le-duan","language":"en","name":"Lê Duẩn","name_en":"Lê Duẩn","name_ne":null,"description":"General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907-1986)","headline":"General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907-1986)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Lê Duẩn whose real name is Lê Văn Nhuận, was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1950s and became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (VCP) at the 3rd National Congress in 1960. When Ho Chi Minh died in 1969, he consolidated power to become the undisputed leader of North Vietnam. Upon the fall of South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, he subsequently ruled the newly unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1976 until his death in 1986.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"7 April 1907","date":"1907-04-07"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Quảng Trị","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36579"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"10 July 1986","date":"1986-07-10"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Hanoi","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1858"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Vietnam","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q881"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Communist Party of Vietnam","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q427325"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001#P102"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (10 September 1960 – 10 July 1986)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q848786","start":"1960-09-10","end":"1986-07-10"},{"text":"member of the National Assembly of Vietnam","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10841192"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Lenin Peace Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308907"},{"text":"Order of Klement Gottwald","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2660844","date":"1982-03-22"},{"text":"Order of Lenin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185493"},{"text":"Order of José Martí","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1991972"},{"text":"Gold Star Order","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2338769"},{"text":"Gold Medal of the Nation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15993786"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AA_Du%E1%BA%A9n","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Lê Duẩn born?","a":"Lê Duẩn was born on 7 April 1907 in Quảng Trị."},{"q":"What positions has Lê Duẩn held?","a":"Positions held by Lê Duẩn include: General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1960–1986); member of the National Assembly of Vietnam."}],"related":[{"name":"Ho Chi Minh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ho-chi-minh"},{"name":"Nguyễn Phú Trọng","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nguyen-phu-trong"},{"name":"Trường Chinh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/truong-chinh"},{"name":"Nông Đức Mạnh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nong-uc-manh"},{"name":"Hà Huy Tập","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ha-huy-tap"},{"name":"Lê Khả Phiêu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/le-kha-phieu"},{"name":"Nguyễn Thị Định","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nguyen-thi-inh"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/le-duan-83151fdb46.jpg","width":500,"height":730,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Unknown author Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_duan.png"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Lê Duẩn","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AA_Du%E1%BA%A9n","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q466001","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466001","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Le duan.png by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_duan.png","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Lê Duẩn, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Le duan.png — Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Lê Duẩn\". DigiNepal. Last updated 9 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/le-duan. Retrieved 15 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-09T08:54:54Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-14","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/le-duan","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/le-duan","ne":null}}