Diplomat’s memoirs of Ho Chi Minh Campaign published in French

43 years ago, on 30th April 1975, the revolution flag fluttered over Independence Palace – the Southern puppet government’s presidential Palace marking the liberation of Saigon city and the victory of Ho Chi Minh Campaign and the end of our people’s triumphant resistance war against the American imperialists for national salvation.

The great 1975 Spring Victory (hereafter the Victory) was not only a historic and epochal victory of Vietnamese peoples in the 20th century, but an immortal heroic epic of people’s war in Ho Chi Minh era.

The victory of our peoples’ resistance war against the US for national salvation culminated in the great 1975 Spring Victory, which “went down in national history as one of the most glorious historical pages and a brilliant symbol of revolutionary heroism and human brainpower, and passed into international history as a great feat of arms in the 20th century and a globally significant and profoundly epochal event”.

The will of “nothing is more precious than independence and freedom” and peace aspirations and national reunification under the leadership of Vietnamese Communist Party acted as a decisive momentum for delivering the Victory, completely liberating the South and reunifying the country.

Under the Party’s leadership, those will and aspirations had been crystallized into enormous national physical and mental strength in the resistance war, leading to the Victory.

Vietnamese generations and progressive humankind have been increasingly conscious of the Victory’s symbolic meaning and historical and epochal value on all fronts

People around the globe have hailed the Victory as a “triumph of justice, humanity and unparalleled heroism and of shaking the globe”.

The Victory also has had sweeping impacts on global and regional complexion in the future, and made an indelible imprint of an indomitable nation against its foreign invaders on the international arena, heralding the end of superpowers’ repression against nationalism via their power”.

That victory, which made history, proved a fact that no power could dominate the heroic peoples.

A Vietnamese country with glorious triumphant resistance wars for national salvation and a firm foothold in extensive global integration and international arena is an “eyesore” in the eyes of hostile forces and political opportunists, whose true artifice is to get rid of it.

History must be respected and reviewed in an objective and truthful manner.

It is impossible to negate and disparage great sacrifices and losses by many Vietnamese generations, which led to the miraculously victorious resistance wars and the Victory.

The Victory was a great and glorious triumph of Vietnamese people over foreign aggressors, and the just and humane victory over the unjust and brutal aggression, which is why the international friends called Vietnam “the conscience of the times” with admiration and reverence.

It is impossible to diminish the value and meaning of those victories no matter how cunning and sophisticated those distortions and opposing arguments by hostile forces are.

Today, Vietnam has just overcome another war to defeat the global enemy - coronavirus originated from Wuhan, China having claimed more than millions of lives all over the world and put human and the world in risks of terrible crises.

Our glorious victory combining both national historic power and the whole people's solidarity.

hese days remind all Vietamese generations that we could overcome any obstacles and defeat any enemy, albeit its insidious schemes, by our unity, justice and thousand -year -history national strength. let's take a look at the true, rare images of woeful and majestic historic days.

the war in Vietnam was not a true insurgency but a thinly disguised aggression

The war in Vietnam was not a war of aggression by the North against the South, nor was it ever a purely conventional war.

the Vietnam War was a people’s war, and the communists won because they had, as one American general who served in Vietnam observed, “a coherent, long-term, and brilliant grand strategy–the strategy of revolutionary war.