Delegates attending the workshop.
Lieutenant General, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Bao, Director of the Academy of Politics; Major General Doan Xuan Bo, Editor-in-Chief of the People's Army Newspaper; and Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Danh Tien, Director of the Institute of Party History co-chaired the workshop. Attending the workshop were representatives of the Central Propaganda Department; the Central Theoretical Council; representatives of agencies and units inside and outside the Army.
The Presidium chaired the workshop.
Speaking at the opening of the workshop, Lieutenant General, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Bao stated that 70 years ago, on March 13, 1954, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, President Ho Chi Minh and the General Military Commission, the Campaign Command, the revolutionary armed forces opened fire, opening the Dien Bien Phu campaign. After 56 days and nights of steadfast and arduous fighting, the campaign ended in complete victory. The extremely glorious feat contributed to the decisive end of the resistance war against the French colonialists, opening the way for the collapse of old colonialism, marking a new development step of the national liberation revolution in the world, for peace, national independence, democracy and socialism.
Lieutenant General, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Bao delivered the opening speech at the workshop.
Lieutenant General, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Bao said that this workshop is part of a series of propaganda activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, thereby continuing to affirm the correctness and inevitable victory of the people's war strategy under the leadership of the Party and beloved President Ho Chi Minh. This is also an opportunity to review the glorious revolutionary tradition of the nation; educate the younger generation to remember the great contributions and sacrifices of compatriots, cadres and soldiers who spared no blood and youth to create the great victory, bringing independence and freedom to the Fatherland.
Major General Doan Xuan Bo delivered a keynote speech at the conference.
In his opening speech at the conference, Major General Doan Xuan Bo emphasized that, with the great stature and significance of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, there have been hundreds of books, tens of thousands of articles, seminars, and conferences summarizing combat experiences. Many scientific works in Vietnam and abroad have analyzed and explained the significance of the victory, discussing the reasons for the strength that the Vietnamese army and people had to create the Dien Bien Phu Victory.
The Organizing Committee received more than 70 papers for the conference. The papers all focused on affirming the great role and strategic talent of the Party Central Committee, President Ho Chi Minh and the General Military Commission in the Dien Bien Phu campaign. The papers analyzed in depth and affirmed that the Dien Bien Phu victory was the pinnacle of Vietnamese military art in the resistance war against the French, demonstrated in all three areas: Strategic command, campaign art and tactics, with the outstanding feature being proactiveness, creativity, fighting in the way we chose, forcing the enemy to be passive in response, limiting their strengths in terms of numbers, strong firepower, and high mobility.
Conference scene.
The Dien Bien Phu victory affirmed the remarkable growth of the Vietnam People's Army. Under the leadership, education and training of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, our Army has grown steadily, the more we fight, the stronger we become, the more we fight, the more we mature. During the fighting as well as the preparation for the campaign, with the nature and fine tradition of an army "born from the people, fighting for the people", the officers and soldiers did not hesitate to endure hardships and sacrifices, finding ways to overcome challenges to excellently complete the mission. At the same time, the discussions analyzed in depth, drawing profound lessons on the resistance line; promoting the strength of great national unity, combining national strength with the strength of the times; promoting political and spiritual factors; military science and art, political-ideological work, combat staff work, logistics, engineering, communications, coordination between agencies, units and arms./.
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