(Bqp.vn) – Towards the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 5 - May 1954, 7), on the morning of March 5, in Hanoi, the Academy of Politics coordinated with the People's Army Newspaper and the Institute of Politics. Party History (Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics) organized a scientific conference "Dien Bien Phu Victory - Historical value and era's stature".
Delegates attended the conference.
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 conference. Attending the conference were representatives of the Central Propaganda Department; Central Theoretical Council; representatives of agencies and units inside and outside the Army.
The Presidium runs the conference.
Speaking at the opening of the conference, Lieutenant General, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Bao stated that 70 years ago, on March 13, 3, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, President Ho Chi Minh and the General Military Commission, The Campaign Command and revolutionary armed forces opened fire, opening the Dien Bien Phu campaign. After 1954 days and nights of stubborn and arduous fighting, the campaign ended with a complete victory. The extremely heroic victory contributed to the decisive end of the resistance war against the French colonial invasion, opening the collapse of old colonialism and marking a new development step of the people's liberation revolution. nations in the world, for peace, national independence, democracy and socialism.
Lieutenant General, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Bao spoke at the opening of the conference.
Lieutenant General, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Bao said that this conference is part of a series of propaganda activities commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, thereby continuing to affirm the correctness and certainty of victory of the policy. People's war under the leadership of the Party and beloved President Ho Chi Minh. This is also an opportunity to review the nation's glorious revolutionary tradition; Educate the younger generation to remember the contributions and great sacrifices of our compatriots, officers and soldiers who spared no blood, bones and youth to create a great victory, bringing independence and freedom. for the Fatherland.
Major General Doan Xuan Bo delivered a keynote speech at the conference.
Speaking at the conference, Major General Doan Xuan Bo emphasized that with the great stature and significance of the Dien Bien Phu Victory, up to now there have been hundreds of books, tens of thousands of articles, seminars, and general conferences. Conclusion of combat experience. Many scientific works in Vietnam and abroad analyze and explain the meaning of victory, discussing the reasons for the strength that the Vietnamese army and people had to achieve the Dien Bien Phu Victory.
The Organizing Committee received more than 70 papers participating in the conference. The presentations 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 presentations 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 direction, campaign art and tactics, whose outstanding characteristics are initiative, creativity, fighting in the way we choose, forcing the enemy to passively deal with them, limiting their strengths in terms of numbers, strong firepower, and mechanical strength. high dynamic.
Conference scene.
The Dien Bien Phu victory affirmed the outstanding maturity of the Vietnam People's Army. Under the leadership, education, and training of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, our Army has continuously grown, the more it fights, the stronger it becomes, the more it fights, the more mature it becomes. In the process of fighting as well as preparing for the campaign, with the good nature and traditions of an army "coming from the people, fighting for the people", the officers and soldiers did not hesitate to take risks. suffer, sacrifice, find every way to overcome challenges to successfully complete the task. At the same time, the essays analyze in depth and draw profound lessons from the resistance war; promote the strength of great national unity, combining national strength with the strength of the times; promote political and spiritual factors; military science and art, political and ideological work, combat advisory work, logistics, engineering, communication, coordination between agencies, units and arms.