It has been 55 years since President Ho Chi Minh passed away, but his life, career and ideology will forever be the torch illuminating the path of the Vietnamese revolution to the shore of victory, building a "more decent and more beautiful" country.

Before going far away, He left our Party and our people a historical Testament containing the quintessence, spirit, thoughts and feelings of a great man who "brought glory to our nation, our people, our mountains and rivers, our country" .

The Testament is a text of only about 1,000 words but contains many thoughts and instructions of President Ho Chi Minh on the most fundamental issues of the Vietnamese revolution. This is the work that he spent the last 5 years of his life (from 1965 to 1969) to crystallize with many revisions and additions, showing the meticulousness, detail, carefulness and utmost responsibility of President Ho Chi Minh for the future of the country and the nation. The content of the Testament is both a summary of the great issues of the Party and the Vietnamese revolution, and outlines the path that our entire Party and people must strive to carry out in the future; not only that, it also has philosophical meaning, expressing a beautiful, rich soul and character, carrying the profound human values ​​of a great man.

The Testament is President Ho Chi Minh's genius prediction of the certain victory of our people in the resistance war against the US to save the country . This was affirmed by him right in the opening paragraph: "Although our people's resistance war against the US to save the country must go through more hardships and sacrifices, it will definitely be completely victorious. That is a certainty" . And his affirmation became true with the victory of the historic Ho Chi Minh Campaign, liberating the South, unifying the country, bringing the whole country into the era of independence, freedom, and steady progress towards socialism.

As the genius leader of our Party, the founder, leader and trainer of our Party, in his testament, President Ho Chi Minh "first of all talked about the Party" and devoted a large amount of space to this content. The issue that he paid great attention to and gave many instructions on was the issue of solidarity within the Party (statistics show that in the part about the Party, President Ho Chi Minh repeated the word "solidarity" 5 times). His instructions on Party building and rectification have become the motto and guideline for our Party in the process of perfecting the theory on the Party's leadership and governing methods over the past half century.

In his Testament, he also advised on nurturing the next generation of revolutionaries to be "both red and expert" so that they are capable of inheriting the glorious revolutionary cause. He required our Party to have a very good plan to develop the economy and culture in order to constantly improve the people's lives.

As a staunch fighter of the international communist and workers' movement, right from the early days of the Party's founding, President Ho Chi Minh identified the Vietnamese revolution as a part of the world revolutionary movement. Therefore, he paid great attention to consolidating and strengthening solidarity in the communist movement and advised our Party to work hard to heal and overcome discord, restore solidarity among fraternal communist parties on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, with reason and emotion.

During 55 years of implementing President Ho Chi Minh's Testament, our entire Party, people and army have strived, sacrificed, fought, and carried the national flag to the shore of glory. The great victory of Spring 1975 completed the cause of liberating the South, unifying the country, and fully realizing his burning desire and wish during his lifetime.

Although the country experienced many severe challenges and difficulties in the first years after reunification, our Party, with its steadfast political will and extensive experience, skillfully steered the revolutionary boat through rapids, on the basis of summarizing practice, studying theory, and especially always imbued with Uncle Ho's teachings and instructions to "Build a peaceful, unified, independent, democratic and prosperous Vietnam" .

Today, Vietnam is not only known to international friends as a heroic nation, "having the honor of being a small country that has heroically defeated two great empires" but also as one of the few countries with the most peaceful and stable environment in the world, always in the top countries with high economic growth rates, and the material and spiritual life of the people is constantly improving. In particular, in the process of leading the revolutionary cause, our Party always deeply remembers President Ho Chi Minh's advice on constantly building and rectifying the Party, so that our Party is worthy of "being the leader, the truly loyal servant of the people" .

In recent years, the work of Party building and rectification, associated with the work of fighting corruption and negativity, has been promoted by our Party and achieved extremely important results. Thanks to that, the Party has always been trusted and believed by the people and will forever be "our Party" in the hearts of every citizen.

There are values ​​that shine brighter as time goes by. President Ho Chi Minh's Testament has such value, because each of us, when re-reading the Testament , finds in it timeless meanings, giving us more faith and motivation to move forward.

Hoang Ngoc Anh