EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Spring of At Ty is the moment marking the transformation of the country, the beginning of a new year with confidence and pride that the position, prestige and foundation of our nation, Party and country have never been as good as they are today in the international arena.
The New Year 2025 with many heroic historical events of the nation, starting with meaningful activities to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930 - February 3, 2025).
95 years under the leadership of the Party, our country has gone through the era of national independence and building socialism (1930 - 1975); the era of national unification and innovation (1975 - 2025); and now, we are ready to enter a new era, the era of national growth, with the starting point being the important event, the 14th National Party Congress.
VietNamNet would like to share some articles, opinions, and perspectives on the important historical event of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
The first outstanding mark in the past 95 years of history was the birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam in early 1930.
At the end of the 19th century, Vietnam was invaded by French colonialists and they established a regime of rule and exploitation. The uprisings against the French by our ancestors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries all failed. Faced with that situation, in 1911, Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh), then known as Nguyen Tat Thanh, set out to find a way to save the country. After many years of wandering abroad, in 1920, he found the way to save the country when he came into contact with Marxism-Leninism.
In the light of Marxism-Leninism, he realized that for the revolution to succeed: First of all, there must be a revolutionary party, to mobilize and organize the people internally, and to connect with oppressed peoples and the proletariat everywhere externally. Only when the party is strong can the revolution succeed, just as the helmsman must be strong for the boat to sail. For the party to be strong, it must have an ideology as its core, and everyone in the party must understand and follow that ideology. From there, he spread revolutionary theory back home and began preparing the conditions for the birth of a revolutionary party in Vietnam.
Parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory. Photo: Hoang Ha
The Communist Party of Vietnam was founded on February 3, 1930 with a correct revolutionary platform, marking the maturity of the Vietnamese revolutionary movement and a turning point in the history of the Vietnamese revolution. It was the inevitable result of the combination of Marxism-Leninism with the workers' movement and the patriotic movement.
Later, the 3rd National Congress of the Party (September 1960) decided to take February 3rd every year as the anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The birth of the Party in early 1930 with a correct revolutionary platform ended the period of crisis in revolutionary direction. Since then, the Vietnamese revolution under the leadership of the Party has continuously developed, grown and achieved many great victories. Thus, the birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam in early 1930 was the first special major event in the Party's 95-year journey.
The second mark in the Party's 95-year history is the event that the Party led our people to the great victory of the August Revolution in 1945, leading to the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Since its establishment in early 1930, with the correct revolutionary line, the Party led our people to the great victory of the August Revolution in 1945 when the Party was just 15 years old. President Ho Chi Minh affirmed: This is the first time in the revolutionary history of colonial and semi-colonial peoples that a Party only 15 years old has led the revolution to success and taken power nationwide.
The victory of the August Revolution in 1945 broke the chains of slavery of imperialism for nearly a century, ended the existence of the thousand-year-old autocratic monarchy, and established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam - the first people's state in Southeast Asia. With this victory, the Vietnamese people rose from the status of slaves to the status of masters of the country, with the right to decide their own destiny. Vietnam, from a colony, became an independent and sovereign nation, rising up with the peoples of the world to fight for the noble goals of the era: peace, national independence, democracy and social progress. The victory of the August Revolution opened a new era in the history of the Vietnamese nation - the era of independence, freedom and socialism.
The victory of the August Revolution was the victory of the Party's correct and creative revolutionary line for national liberation and Ho Chi Minh's ideology. This victory proved that: A national liberation revolution led by the Communist Party can completely win in a colony before the working class in the "mother country" takes power. Thus, the great victory of the August Revolution in 1945 in Vietnam has international significance and stature. That victory was achieved due to the Party's correct revolutionary line, and this is the second most important event in the 95-year history of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
The third mark is that the Party led the nation to a great victory in the resistance war against French colonialism (1945-1954). After the success of the August Revolution in 1945, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was established, but shortly after, on September 23, 1945, French colonialism returned to invade our country once again. As a leading and ruling party, the Communist Party of Vietnam proposed a correct resistance line, the core of which was the line of all-people's war, comprehensive, long-term and self-reliance, mainly relying on our own strength, leading our people to successfully carry out the resistance war against French colonialism after 9 years.
The victory of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign in 1954, after 56 days and nights of “digging mountains, sleeping in tunnels, pouring rain, eating rice balls. Blood mixed with mud. Unwavering courage. Unwavering will!” crushed the French colonialists’ will to invade. The thunder of Dien Bien Phu shook the world, forcing the French colonialists to accept sitting at the negotiating table and signing the Geneva Agreement on July 21, 1954, ending their unjust war of aggression in Indochina in general and Vietnam in particular, recognizing the independence, freedom, unity, and sovereignty of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and withdrawing troops. This is the third milestone on the 95-year journey of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Ba Dinh Square. Photo: Hoang Ha - Pham Hai
The fourth mark is the process of the Party leading our people to victory in the resistance war against the US, saving the country, creating conditions for national unification and the whole country to move towards socialism (1954-1975). The great victory of the General Offensive and Uprising in the Spring of 1975 ended 21 years of our people under the leadership of the Party fighting against the invading US imperialists and their puppet regime. This victory also ended 30 years of revolutionary war, 117 years of fighting against the invading imperialists, regaining national independence, unity, and territorial integrity for the Fatherland.
This victory ended the national democratic revolution of the people throughout the country, opening a new era for the nation: the era of peace, unity and the whole country moving towards socialism. At the same time, this victory increased the material and spiritual strength and raised the prestige of the Party and the nation in the international arena, raised the spirit and national pride, defeated the plots and tricks of neo-colonialism, and encouraged the movement for national independence, democracy and world peace.
The fifth mark is that the Party led the nation to successfully carry out two wars to protect the Fatherland's borders, against the Khmer Rouge invaders in the southwestern border region (1978-1989) and against the invaders in the northern border region (1979-1989). In particular, the victory in the war against the Khmer Rouge forces also had great international significance in helping the Cambodian people escape the genocidal regime led by Pol Pot.
The sixth mark is that the Party has successfully led the renovation process, brought the country out of the serious socio-economic crisis, carried out industrialization and modernization, eliminated the embargo and international integration. In the 1970s and 1980s of the last century, due to the prolonged war and the mistakes and limitations of the old planning, centralization, bureaucracy and subsidy mechanism, the country fell into a serious socio-economic crisis. Along with that, the conflicts arising in international relations caused the country to fall into a state of embargo and siege. To overcome those consequences, with the viewpoint: Looking straight at the truth, correctly assessing the truth, clearly stating the truth, at the 6th National Congress in 1986, the Party proposed the path of national renewal and led our people to successfully implement it, bringing the country out of crisis, breaking the siege and embargo, gradually integrating more and more deeply into the international community, gradually transitioning to socialism. The victory of the renewal process affirmed the Party's leadership role for the nation and people, affirming that the Party's correct leadership is the leading factor deciding all victories of the Vietnamese revolution.
The seventh mark of the Party is that the Party has performed well the task of Party building, determined to prevent corruption and negativity, clean up the apparatus to maintain prestige, ensure and enhance the Party's capacity, position and leadership role towards the revolution, towards the nation and people. It is worthy of being a leading and ruling party, a loyal representative of the interests of the working class and the nation. Under the leadership of the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the Party has resolutely and thoroughly handled corruption and waste cases over the past decade, resolutely eliminating from the Party those who have degenerated and changed. This has contributed to ensuring, consolidating, strengthening and enhancing the Party's prestige, capacity, position and role towards the cause of national construction and development and international integration. Raising the Party's position in the international arena, creating opportunities to open a new era of development for the country.
Our country has never had the foundation, potential, position and international prestige as it does today. Photo: Vu Minh Quan
Important milestones in the 95-year journey of establishment, under the leadership of the Party, our country and people have achieved many important and great victories, especially the victory of the renovation process. With the victory of the renovation process, the position of the nation in the international arena has been affirmed and elevated. With all humility, we can still say that: Our country has never had the foundation, potential, position and international prestige as today.
And in 2025, when it turns 95, the Party has been leading the nation into another new milestone, the eighth milestone, which is the era of national growth. This is considered a new era, and the upcoming 14th Congress will be the first Congress of the Party to start a new era. With all the victories that the Party has led the nation to achieve in 95 years, we can fully believe that, under the leadership of the glorious Party, we will continue to achieve greater victories in the new era - the era of national growth.
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