In the struggle for national independence, building socialism and defending the Fatherland, our people received encouragement and support from many friendly countries and people who love freedom and justice around the world .
Liberation Army tanks take control of the Independence Palace on April 30, 1975. Photo: TL
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba Fidel Castro said: “For Vietnam, Cuba is willing to sacrifice its blood”. To support the Vietnamese people’s resistance war against the US to save the country, tens of thousands, millions of people participated in demonstrations and marches following the “command of the heart”, “call for justice”… Therefore, it can be said that the victory of the Vietnamese revolution is the victory of international solidarity, of the world peace and democracy movement, of justice and conscience of the times.
When Vietnam won the General Offensive and Uprising in the Spring of 1975, culminating in the historic Ho Chi Minh Campaign, completely liberating the South and unifying the country on April 30, 1975, it was a globally shocking event, and foreign press and international friends spoke of this event with admiration and respect.
Right in the United States, the Los Angles Times (LA Times) wrote on May 1, 1975: “The Americans left, the South Vietnamese (puppet army, puppet government) surrendered, Vietnam was returned to the Vietnamese people”. The Asahi Shimbun (Japan) wrote in an editorial on May 1, 1975: “The Vietnam War ended with the victory of the liberation forces, which means that the era of big countries using force to stifle nationalism has ended”. The UPI news agency reported on April 30, 1975: “The communist army happily rode tanks into the Presidential Palace and shouted “comrades” to the people on the street and reporters who were watching. They really did not pay attention to the presence of journalists recording the historic surrender of the Saigon Government to the communists. Three white flags were raised at the Police Command Headquarters, a moment later Mr. Minh spoke on the radio. Many white flags were also raised in the suburbs of North Saigon. People were walking normally on the streets. Viet Cong flags appeared on the blocks. Viet Cong soldiers walked on the main streets. Smiling local people surrounded them, shaking their hands.
The Egyptian News newspaper wrote on May 7, 1975: “There is no one on this earth, regardless of their political views or skin color, who does not respect and be proud of the Vietnamese people, a people who raised the flag of victory on the last land of their Fatherland on April 30, 1975. After 30 years of continuous fighting, without a moment of rest, that people defeated the three most powerful imperialists in the world: Japan, France, and the United States, finally with blood and fire, proving to all mankind that people who fight never submit and their will is invincible.”
AFP news agency on December 15, 1975 commented: “In 1975, the most prominent event in Asia was the Vietnam event of 1975, witnessing the birth of a unified Vietnam. There is no doubt that this event will have a huge impact on this part of the world in the future.”
The European Magazine (France) in October 1975 wrote: “After 30 years of fighting - strange fighting - since this spring, peace has returned to the whole of Vietnam. Peace in independence. Surely this is the most complete victory that a nation can achieve against a most powerful empire. It will take years, decades to fully appreciate the importance of this victory.”
Lieutenant General, Professor, Doctor of Russian Military Science Anatoly Ivanovich Khiupenen, former head of the Soviet military expert delegation in Vietnam, affirmed: “Vietnam's territory may be invaded, but the Vietnamese people will never submit. The history of thousands of years of Vietnam shows that the invaders eventually had to flee from Vietnam. For us, the Soviet Union has fulfilled its noble international duty to the fraternal Vietnamese people. We often tell each other that we have worked honestly. You are a resilient people. We are always with you. The friendship born in combat is the strongest feeling, nothing is better. Your victory is a common victory, the victory of the Vietnam-Soviet Union friendship. We are brothers.''
Ms. Merle Ratner (American), Member of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Dioxin Relief and Responsibility Campaign, recounted her feelings when hearing the news of the victory on April 30, 1975: “The great victory of the Vietnamese people in the spring of 1975 was one of the rarest and happiest moments of our lives. We sang the song “Vietnam will win” many times. Especially when we saw the provinces and cities in Vietnam being liberated one after another in March and April 1975, we understood that your day of total victory was very close. On April 30, 1975, we were extremely happy to see the liberation forces advancing towards Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City.
This is a victory for the heroic Vietnamese people, who sacrificed their blood and bones to achieve that glorious victory. We feel that your victory is also a victory for us and for people all over the world. We are extremely happy and proud! Vietnam is liberated and unified. This gives us a belief that if a nation is united in the struggle for justice, it will certainly win. It also makes us believe that American imperialism can also be defeated in other places in the world and right here in America”!
The great victory of the Vietnamese people in the Spring of 1975 was an event that inspired many international journalists to write articles praising or urging them to return to Vietnam once again since that Spring. Because that echo still resonates in the hearts of friends around the world.
The newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong, the central agency of Cuban workers, later wrote: “On April 30, 1975, images of the heroic Vietnamese people’s victory over American imperialism quickly spread throughout the world. The scene of panicked American soldiers jostling and pushing each other on Black Hawk helicopters in a runaway from the unstoppable rapid advance of the Vietnam People’s Army, as well as the image of liberation soldiers entering the Independence Palace, are still there as powerful evidence of the day when North and South Vietnam were completely unified.”
The newspaper emphasized: "The Vietnamese people's steadfast will to protect the Fatherland is a shining example of courage and fighting spirit so that today the Vietnamese people are living in peace and prosperity, ten times more beautiful as President Ho Chi Minh wished."
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