Nguyen Thi Dinh
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Nguyễn Thị Định (1920-1992) was a female Vietnamese revolutionary.
She was born from a peasant family in Ben Tre (Kien Hoa province in the Mekong Delta), fought with the Viet Minh forces against the French, was arrested and incarcerated by the French colonial authority between 1940 and 1943, and helped lead an insurrection in Ben Tre in 1945 and again in 1960 (against Ngo Dinh Diem's government).
She was a founding member of the National Liberation Front (NLF),
In 1965 she was elected chairwoman of the South Vietnam Women's Liberation Association.
After the Vietnam War, Madame Dinh served on the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
Together with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, she is one of the two most prominent female Vietnamese revolutionary leaders. She was awarded Lenin Peace Prize for the year 1967.
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