Promoting the Party's correct leadership role
The rich and vivid reality of the Vietnamese revolution over the 94 years since the Communist Party of Vietnam was born has affirmed that the correct and wise leadership of the Party is always the leading factor, deciding all victories of the Vietnamese revolution. In the August Revolution of 1945, that leading and decisive factor was even more clearly demonstrated, becoming an extremely valuable lesson.
The Party has set out the correct guidelines, suitable for the period of struggle for power. When World War II broke out, the Party Central Committee wisely predicted the situation to promptly change the direction of the Vietnamese revolutionary strategy. In particular, the Party emphasized the task of national liberation, correctly identified the enemy, established a political regime for the country after the revolution succeeded; especially, determined the form of uprising to seize power with the use of revolutionary violence, combining armed violence with political violence.
Implementing that policy, the Party actively led the preparation of the strength for the struggle to seize power. Focusing on building the revolutionary armed forces with the establishment of the Bac Son Guerrilla Team, the National Salvation Army Team, especially the Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army Team (December 22, 1944) - the main force of the Vietnamese revolution under the absolute and direct leadership in all aspects of the Party. Paying attention to building revolutionary forces in all classes, in both rural and urban areas. In particular, the Party led the building of the great national unity bloc, taking the worker-peasant alliance as the core to create an extremely great strength, following the Party's call, ready to stand up to fight to overthrow the domination of Japanese fascists and their feudal lackeys, and seize power.
The Party wisely grasped the situation, accurately analyzed the revolutionary situation, and clearly recognized the opportunity to launch a general uprising to win victory nationwide. At the right time when Japanese fascism was defeated in the world war and before the Allied forces entered to disarm the Japanese army in Indochina, the Party "pressed the button" at the right time, launching a general uprising for power. In particular, the victories in Hanoi, Hue and Saigon - Gia Dinh played a particularly important role, affecting the victory of the whole country.
Because of seizing the right opportunity, having strong strength, with the wise and talented leadership of the Party and leader Ho Chi Minh, within just 15 days (from August 13 to 28, 1945), all classes of our people rose up to seize power, the general uprising was completely victorious.
From the victory of the August Revolution in 1945, it was affirmed that ensuring and promoting the correct leadership role of the Party is a prerequisite and constant condition for all victories. To undertake its responsibilities, the Party must always innovate and create; when the situation changes, it must have new and timely policies.
The historical reality of more than 94 years of our Party's operation shows that, facing many turning points of the times, the Party has wisely proposed policies and guidelines in line with reality. Typically, at the 6th Congress (December 1986), on the basis of a profound analysis of the country's situation and through the process of research and practical testing, with the spirit of "looking straight at the truth, correctly assessing the truth, clearly stating the truth", "renewing thinking", the Party proposed the Comprehensive National Renovation Policy, marking an important turning point on the path of transition to socialism in Vietnam.
From the victory of the August Revolution in 1945, it was affirmed that: Ensuring and promoting the correct leadership role of the Party is a prerequisite and throughout all victories.
The birth of the renovation policy has met the demands of historical reality, demonstrated the steadfastness and creative thinking of the Communist Party of Vietnam and opened a new period for the country's development. After the 6th Congress, the Party has gradually perfected and concretized the renovation policy, the basic and core content of which is expressed in the Platform for national construction in the transitional period to socialism (the 1991 Platform and the 2011 supplemented and developed Platform) and important documents of the Party through the congresses, so that our country "has the foundation, potential, prestige and international position as it does today" (1) .
Building and promoting the strength of national solidarity, combining national strength with the strength of the times
The solid foundation for building the great national unity bloc was set forth by our Party in the Party's first political platform at the Party's founding conference on February 3, 1930. During the August Revolution in 1945, the Party built a great national unity force, the core of which was the worker-peasant alliance, under the name of the Vietnam Independence League (abbreviated as the Viet Minh Front). This was our Party's innovation compared to the direction of the Communist International and the Soviet Union's model.
In a colonial and feudal country like Vietnam, not only workers and peasants, but almost all other classes had conflicts with colonial and feudal oppression. The fundamental conflict of Vietnamese society at that time was between the entire Vietnamese nation and the invasion and oppression of the colonial, imperialist, fascist regimes and their traitors.
Therefore, in addition to workers and peasants, the Party also advocates gathering many other classes with patriotic spirit in society, such as: landlords, feudalists, national bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie... All of them, although more or less having their own interests, have a "common denominator" which is national liberation. Therefore, fighting against imperialism and feudalism are two strategic tasks of the Vietnamese revolution; however, based on the specific situation, the Party is always quick to adjust appropriately.
During the revolutionary movement (from 1939 to 1945), our Party proposed the policy of raising high the flag of national liberation, temporarily putting aside the task of fighting feudalism, and at this time, the Viet Minh Front was the most suitable and effective organization to gather revolutionary forces to stand up and gain independence for the country.
The policies of the Viet Minh demonstrated the Party's goal of overthrowing Japanese fascists and their feudal lackeys, building a new progressive society, bringing fundamental benefits to the entire population, especially land to farmers - the force that makes up the vast majority of the Vietnamese population, with the practical slogan: "Land to the tillers". In reality, in many localities, when the general uprising to seize power broke out, the Viet Minh was the force that organized the struggles with tight programs and plans, attracting all forces, regardless of whether they were workers, farmers or landlords, bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie, even the mandarins of the feudal regime were ready to stand on the side of the revolutionary forces.
In the cause of innovation, construction and protection of the Fatherland, the lesson of building and promoting the tradition and strength of great national unity has been successfully applied by our Party. Through the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Party has promoted the strength of solidarity of all social classes to build and protect the Fatherland.
Building and promoting the strength of national unity, combining national strength with the strength of the times. That is a principled lesson drawn from the August Revolution of 1945, which needs to be applied and promoted creatively in the new revolutionary stage.
Along with that, it is necessary to effectively implement social solidarity, create consensus to arouse and promote the strength of all classes, sectors, and economic sectors, taking the goal of "building a prosperous and happy Vietnam; becoming a developed country with high income by 2045 as a common point to motivate and encourage people to unite and join hands to implement for the future of the nation and the happiness of the people" (3) .
At the same time, harmoniously resolve the relationship of interests between: individuals - collectives, State - enterprises - people... Strengthen the fight against individualism, "group interests", put the interests of the Fatherland and the nation above all, in the spirit of: "Highest guarantee of national and ethnic interests" (4) . That is a principled lesson that has been drawn from the August Revolution in 1945, which needs to be applied and promoted creatively in the new revolutionary stage.
Raising awareness, fighting against historical distortion
Every year, as scheduled, on the occasion when our entire Party, people and army organize meaningful activities to celebrate the success of the August Revolution and National Day on September 2, hostile and reactionary forces take advantage of the media, social networks, etc. to repeatedly "chew over and over" the argument: The August Revolution was "lucky", the Viet Minh was not talented at all, they just took advantage of the "power vacuum" (when the Japanese fascists had surrendered to the Allies and when the Vietnamese feudal government was crumbling), like "reaching out to pick up the ripe fruit that had fallen", therefore, the uprising did not have to be bloody. They also claimed that Vietnam had already achieved independence, as evidenced by the fact that on March 11, 1945, Japan had granted independence and Emperor Bao Dai had declared his acceptance, so they called the victory of the August Revolution in 1945 led by the Party a "coup" to overthrow the independence that Japan had previously granted, usurping the leadership of the government led by Tran Trong Kim as Prime Minister. From that, they deduced that March 11 every year must be taken as the anniversary of Vietnam's National Day!
At the same time in 1945, the opportunity for national independence was not only in Vietnam but also in all Southeast Asian countries, but only Vietnam, Indonesia and Laos gained independence. That opportunity was also open to all political forces in Vietnam, but only the Viet Minh led by the Communist Party achieved victory.
The truth is one and only one. There is no such thing as “luck” here. Because, at the same time in 1945, the opportunity to gain national independence was not only in Vietnam but also in all Southeast Asian countries, but only Vietnam, Indonesia and Laos gained independence. That opportunity was also opened to all political forces in Vietnam, but only the Viet Minh led by the Communist Party won. That was absolutely not a coincidence, but an inevitable victory from the process of the Party leading, preparing, building a strong enough revolutionary force, along with the experience of fighting through “rehearsals” such as: the Soviet-Nghe Tinh climax (1930-1931); the democratic climax (1936-1939) and the national liberation revolutionary climax (1939-1945).
The so-called “power vacuum” is actually the ignorance of those with narrow minds and dark perceptions. In reality, there was no vacuum when the Japanese fascists were still a real entity with an army of nearly 100,000 troops occupying Indochina and they still had a plot to prevent the revolutionary army from rising up and seizing power. And the existence of the “puppet” Bao Dai government at that time was just a trick of the colonialists and imperialists to save face. That government was essentially just a continuation of the intentions of foreign powers, aiming to occupy our country and enslave our people; and there was no such thing as a “coup” taking place here. Therefore, the victory of the August Revolution in 1945 was due to the Vietnamese people themselves, under the skillful and correct leadership of the Party, and the solidarity of the entire nation into a solid bloc.
The victory of the August Revolution in 1945 was achieved by the Vietnamese people themselves, under the talented and correct leadership of the Party, and by the solid unity of the entire nation.
President Ho Chi Minh's heroic declaration on the Independence Stage on the afternoon of September 2, 1945 will forever be a golden milestone marking the miraculous development crystallized from the patriotism of the entire nation. September 2 has become the sacred National Day, reminding us not to forget the great contributions of the entire Party, the entire people, and the entire army of Vietnam who heroically rose up to fight for independence since the historic autumn of 1945. That was also the result of implementing the correct viewpoint and path of national salvation of our Party and leader Ho Chi Minh: "using our own strength to liberate ourselves".
Nearly 80 years have passed, but the victorious spirit of the August Revolution lives forever, an extremely valuable spiritual asset that needs to be multiplied and spread in the process of innovation, building our country to be increasingly prosperous and happy./.
1 - Communist Party of Vietnam - Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, Volume I, National Political Publishing House, Hanoi 2021, p. 104.
2 - Ho Chi Minh - Complete Works, Volume 15, National Political Publishing House, Hanoi, 2011, p. 611.
3 - CPV - Documents of the 8th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee, National Political Publishing House, Hanoi 2021, p. 138.
4 - Communist Party of Vietnam - Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, Volume I, National Political Publishing House, Hanoi 2021, pp. 161 - 162.
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