Jul 2, 2020 • 4M

Couchfish Day 68: Checking in on Uncle Ho

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The Couchfish podcast. Following a day by day itinerary through Southeast Asia—for all those people stranded on their couch.
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Dotted across the country are totems to Vietnam’s revered leader Ho Chi Minh. Museums deifying the man sit in provincial capitals. Statues of him are in almost every Vietnamese city. Framed pictures of him, everywhere.

The mother lode though, Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, is set on the west side of Hanoi’s sacred heart, Ba Dinh Square.

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