Lê Khả Phiêu

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{{Short description|Vietnamese politician (1932–2020)}}

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{{Infobox President

| name = Lê Khả Phiêu

| imagesize =

| office = General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam

| term_start = 26 December 1997

| term_end = 22 April 2001

| predecessor = Đỗ Mười

| successor = Nông Đức Mạnh

| office1 = Secretary of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party

| term_start1 = 29 December 1997

| term_end1 = 22 April 2001

| predecessor1 = Đỗ Mười

| successor1 = Nông Đức Mạnh

| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|12|27|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Đông Khê commune, Đông Sơn District, French Indochina

| party = Communist Party of Vietnam

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|8|7|1932|12|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Hanoi, Vietnam

| allegiance = 25px

Vietnam

| branch = File:Flag of the People's Army of Vietnam.svg Vietnam People's Army

| image = Lekhaphieu2011.jpg

| caption = Le Kha Phieu in 2011

| nickname =

| serviceyears = 1950–1997{{cite web|url=http://en.bocongan.gov.vn/news-events/public-security-central-party-committee-pays-last-respects-to-former-party-chief-le-kha-phieu-t7192.html|publisher=Ministry of Public Security|

accessdate=14 August 2020|title=Former Party Chief Lê Khả Phiêu}}

| rank = Colonel General

| commands = Chairman of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army
Political Commissar of the High Command of the Vietnamese Volunteer Soldiers in Cambodia

| battles = Cambodian–Vietnamese War, Vietnam War, First Indochina War

| awards =

| family =

}}

Lê Khả Phiêu ({{IPA|vi|le˧˧ xaː˧˩ fiəw˧˧}}; 27 December 1932{{Cite web |url =https://dangcongsan.vn/thoi-su/tom-tat-tieu-su-nguyen-tong-bi-thu-le-kha-phieu-561283.html |title=Tóm tắt tiểu sử Nguyên Tổng Bí thư Lê Khả Phiêu |date =10 August 2020 |website =

BÁO ĐIỆN TỬ ĐẢNG CỘNG SẢN VIỆT NAM}} – 7 August 2020[https://tuoitre.vn/nguyen-tong-bi-thu-le-kha-phieu-tu-tran-20200807074900904.htm Nguyên Tổng bí thư Lê Khả Phiêu từ trần], Former General Secretary Le Kha Phieu dead) was a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from December 1997 to April 2001.Gainsborough 2010, p. 143 Lê Khả Phiêu served in the Vietnam People's Army during the First and Second Indochina Wars, join in the Cambodian war, and was Head of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army.The A to Z of Vietnam Bruce M. Lockhart, William J. Duiker – 2010 p205 Lê Khả Phiêu

Lê Khả Phiêu has previously been viewed as a conservative.Bolton 1999 However, this categorization has been challenged by historian Martin Gainsborough, who notes that Lê Khả Phiêu made some remarkably outspoken comments about problems in the party before the Tenth Party Congress. Lê Khả Phiêu criticized what he called 'illness of partyization' (bệnh đảng hoá), meaning that the Party controls everything.Gainsborough 2010, 137 Lê Khả Phiêu was a protégé of his predecessor, Đỗ Mười.Bolton 1999, 177 He was elevated to the Politburo in the early 1990s.Bolton 1999, p. 180