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This whole place was almost too much... but since I like absurd things... Lots of work here for someone interested in semiotics. This is the mausoleum of "Uncle Ho" - Ho Chi Minh. People - mostly vietnamese - are queing up in long lines to see the balmed corpse placed in a glass box ("Uncle Ho" himself didn't want this, he asked for a simple funeral and wished his body would return to the ground in order to make nutrition for the farmer's crops). |
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| In the museum of Ho Chi Minh. All the vietnamese photographed themself in from of Uncle Ho's statue, and so did I... |
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| A souvernir shop at the museum. |
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| Entertaining visitors with traditional instruments. |
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| I think they sell sweets here. |
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| Training soldiers in the park around the museum. |
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| Looking down at the cafe (they serve only BAD instant coffee here, not the vietnamese version ... one of so many more or less funny contradictions...) |
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| The museum displays I thought was just incredible. |
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| This one symbolizes the revolution of the peasants. I think. |
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| "Coc Bo Cave presented here in the form of human brain was President Ho Chi Minh's headquarters from where he engineered the Vietnamese revolution 1941-45." |
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| The US commercial failure - the 1958 Ford Edsel - bursts out of the wall to symbolize its military failure. |
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| The Guernica department tells about Uncle Ho's intellectual influences - contemporary artists, writers etc, even dancers, mostly from Paris where he stayed for a while. |
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| Combining spirituality with politics. In the lotus flower petals there are gifts from different countries given on the occasion of the Vietnamese independence. |
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Gun Holmström 2006