A Path to communism
While there, he organized a group of Vietnamese immigrants and petitioned delegates at the Versailles Peace Conference. He demanded that French colonial government in Indochina grant same rights to the subjects as to it's rulers. Inspired later by the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ho was convinced that Communism was the right answer to free Vietnam from foreign control and in 1920 he joined the French Communist Party and then went to Moscow 3 years later. While in Moscow, Ho was hired by the Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International from 1919 to 1943 (Ho). An organization that advocated world communism. He studied communism while in Moscow at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. Then in 1924 he moved to Canton, China which is known today as Guangzhou, China (Ho Chi Minh Wikipedia). From 1925-1926 he organized youth lectures advocating communism to young people who would eventually help Ho form a new communist party (Ho).