In August 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies, in Indochina, the Japanese army panicked, the revolutionary movement in the whole country was boiling, Ho Chi Minh affirmed that now the opportunity had come, no matter how much sacrifice, we must gain independence. He said: "We need to seize every second, every minute, the situation will change quickly, we cannot miss the opportunity". He decided to hold the National Congress of Delegates in Tan Trao and sent a letter calling on the people of the whole country to rise up in a General Uprising before the Allies entered our country: "The decisive hour for the fate of the whole country has come, the people of the whole country must rise up and use our strength to liberate ourselves...".
Responding to Ho Chi Minh's call, when the Japanese fascists surrendered and the Allies had not yet disarmed, millions of people rose up as one to carry out the General Uprising. The success of the August Revolution was the result of a process of revolutionary struggle, organizing forces, and preparing conditions since the Party was founded, so that when the opportunity came, they could promptly seize it to carry out the General Uprising to overthrow the colonialist oppression and invasion, and gain national independence.
To protect the independence and unity of the country, our people's resistance war against the US for national salvation was one of the greatest and fiercest historical challenges. The victory on April 30, 1975 was one of the three miracles of Vietnamese history in the 20th century, along with the birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the victory of the August Revolution.
That victory ended 117 years of struggle against old and new colonialism, affirming the independence and complete unity of the Vietnamese Fatherland to move towards socialism.
The resistance war against the US for national salvation had a turning point when the Party Central Committee issued Resolution 15 (1959) on launching armed struggle in the South. The fierce battle seemed to be unequal between us and the US imperialists, but was decided by our Party's preparation of conditions and seizing opportunities. After Mau Than 1968 and the victory of Dien Bien Phu in the air in the North, forcing the US to sign the Paris Agreement in 1973 and withdraw all troops, realizing that the opportunity had come, the Party advocated focusing on building forces to prepare all conditions for a general counterattack. From the blow and resounding victory in Phuoc Long (December 13, 1974), the Politburo met on January 6, 1975 to make a strategic determination to liberate the South within 2 years, if the opportunity came, in 1975.
Assuming that there had been no careful preparation, correct analysis of the situation and accurate strategic vision, it would have been difficult to have ended the war with such a complete and total victory on April 30, 1975. This “golden milestone” affirms the correct, creative leadership and direction, and the great opportunity of our Party in the “historic confrontation” against foreign invaders, which was among the most difficult in the resistance wars to gain and preserve independence in the thousands of years of history of our nation.
To achieve revolutionary victory, we need strategic vision, force preparation, and sensitivity to predict opportunities. In 1945 and 1975, recognizing that the opportunity had come, we needed to make a historic decision to promptly mobilize all forces in all aspects to take advantage of the opportunity to bring the revolution to victory.
Under the Party's rallying flag, the entire nation was united to create boundless strength, that strength, together with seizing the right opportunity, defeated the "two great empires", won independence and unified the country. But as President Ho Chi Minh said: "If the nation is independent but the people are not happy and free, independence is meaningless". Having won independence and unification, but after 1975, the country faced many difficulties. The blockade and embargo, the unsuitable centralized economic policy, the enemy continued to sabotage, and the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc collapsed, with seemingly no way out. Faced with that danger, our Party, with its steadfast spirit and vision of the times, looked straight at the truth, determined to change its thinking, and creatively find a path of innovation.
Thus, once again in history, from the midst of difficulties, the Party has seen and created opportunities to continue the country's development on the chosen path. With a socialist-oriented market mechanism, with multilateral and diverse international cooperation, with an independent and autonomous mindset, breaking through the old to see the new, overcoming the "risk of falling behind" and the "middle income trap", that is the mindset of seizing opportunities suitable to the new situation and conditions.
Innovation is essentially recognizing the movement of the law of development trends of the times, first of all, correctly solving the core problem, taking the people as the center; national independence is the principle to achieve the synthesis from each person, each community, each class, stratum in society to the nation and the international community in a harmonious development whose core is the great national unity for independence, freedom and socialism, the boundless source of strength of our nation.
Faced with the current situation of globalization and unpredictable changes in the world, along with the 4th industrial revolution, we can seize this opportunity to integrate and choose the "shortcut, get ahead" way to help our country overcome difficulties and develop sustainably.
National identity in integration is emerging globally, therefore, handling national issues in the diverse development of the era and proactively predicting the movement of the times in the integration process, to attract investment and solve practical problems of the country in each region and each locality is a problem of seizing opportunities to have correct and appropriate actions to create total strength for the development of the country.
The 13th National Party Congress document affirmed: "Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, position and international prestige as today". We have established diplomatic relations with 189 countries regardless of political regime with the "bamboo diplomacy" policy, promoting self-reliance, independence and autonomy, seizing opportunities to break through and develop with the goal of: "Rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, civilization", "By 1930, we will be a developing country with modern industry and high average income, by 2045 we will become a developed country with high income".
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