Vietnam: Guards at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Ba Dinh Square, Hanoi. Ba Dinh Square has special significance for the Vietnamese, as it was here that Ho Chi Minh declared the nation’s independence from France in front of a crowd of more than 100,000 people on 2 September 1945. Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum stands on the west side of Ba Dinh Square, a heavy grey structure, faced in stone quarried from Marble Mountain near Danang. Ho Chi Minh specifically requested that he be cremated and his ashes scattered throughout Vietnam, symbolising the national unity to which he had devoted his life.

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