Party’s clear-sighted leadership the decisive factor in Great 1975 Spring Victory: General
The Party’s clear-sighted leadership was the decisive factor in the Great 1975 Spring Victory that liberated Vietnam’s south and reunified the country, according to General Luong Cuong, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army.
In Bien Hoa Rubber Forest (Dong Nai province), Company 2 of Battalion 9, Regiment 3, Division 304 receives the victory flag before coming to liberate Saigon. File photo.
Hanoi (VNA) - The Party’sclear-sighted leadership was the decisive factor in the Great 1975 Spring Victorythat liberated Vietnam’s south and reunified the country, according to GeneralLuong Cuong, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of theGeneral Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army.
In an article published in the Quan doi Nhan dan(People’s Army) newspaper on April 27, Cuong, who is also a member of theCentral Military Commission’s Standing Board, emphasised that the Great 1975Spring Victory has gone down in history as a glittering chapter in and brilliantsymbol of complete victory by revolutionary heroism and human wisdom.
It was also remembered in world history as agreat feat of arms in the 20th century and an event of international importance.
He noted that under the 1954 Geneva Accords,Vietnam was temporarily divided into two regions. While the north became completelyindependent and began the transitional period to socialism, the south was under the rule of the US imperialists and their henchmen who brutallysuppressed the local population.
In that context, the Party set two strategicrevolutionary tasks - carrying out the socialist revolution in the north andliberating the south from the rule of the US imperialists and their henchmen,so as to reunify the country and bring about independence and democracy.
Cuong wrote that in the strategic general offensivein the spring of 1975, the Party had precise assessments of the situation,firmly seized opportunities, and selected the right direction and main attacktargets, thus changing the disposition of the war completely.
Throughout the resistance war against the US,the Party gradually developed the people’s war to the pinnacle. It mobilisedthe entire population for the battle by bringing into play the strength of the“great rear” in the north to concurrently fight against the enemy, buildsocialism, and provide efficient support for the “great front” in the south,and joining with the strength of southern compatriots and soldiers in thefront line of the fight against the US, the General said.
He highlighted that the strategic generaloffensive in the spring of 1975 was the pinnacle of the combination ofoffensive and uprising to defeat and dismantle all the enemy forces and conclude thewar in a short period of time, which reflected the sharp, creative and clear-sightedmilitary leadership of the Party.
This is forever a source of pride for the VietnameseParty, army, and people, Cuong said, adding that the Party’s leadership role inthe general offensive remains valuable for today’s national development anddefence./.
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In Bien Hoa Rubber Forest (Dong Nai province), Company 2 of Battalion 9, Regiment 3, Division 304 receives the victory flag before coming to liberate Saigon. File photo. 
