Thirty five years ago yesterday, Saigon, the capital of what was then known as South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces. The event marked the defeat of America and its allies and a victory for the forces of Ho Chi Minh. According to this article from Vietnam’s state-controlled Voice of Vietnam, the pain and sorrow of the war brought out the best of the Vietnamese people, many of whom sacrificed all, ‘for the sake of national independence and freedom.’
For the Voice of Vietnam, General Director Dr. Vu Van Hien writes in part:
In every period of Vietnam’s thousand-year history, our forefathers achieved many brilliant feats of arms and left numerous landmarks. But the great victory in the spring of 1975 is considered one of the greatest and most brilliant of them all.
The victory successfully ended Vietnam’s war for national salvation against the U.S. imperialists. Across the entire country, it was also a deciding factor in achieving national reunification and the people’s democratic revolution.
The great victory had epochal significance because we had defeated the “greatest” imperialist, weakened the imperialist system, shattered the neo-colonialist chain, and made an important contribution to the common struggle of the world’s people.
Although much time has elapsed, memories of that glorious time live on in our hearts. We all knew that war meant sacrifice and suffering. But for the sake of national independence and freedom, all Vietnamese, with incomparable strength, went to battle or participated in the resistance war.
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