Tran Quoc Vuong, permanent member of the CPVCC’s Secretariat, speaks at the ceremony. (Source: VNA) Hung Yen (VNA) – A ceremony was held in Giai Phamcommune, Yen My district, the Red River Delta province of Hung Yen on April 27to pay tribute to late General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam CentralCommittee (CPVCC) Nguyen Van Linh on theoccasion of his 20th death anniversary (April 27).
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phuc Trong and former PresidentTruong Tan Sang sent baskets of flowers to the ceremony.
Addressing the event, Tran Quoc Vuong, permanent member ofthe CPVCC’s Secretariat, highlighted the late Party chief’s contributions to thenational revolution, saying he was a model, devoted communist, a strong and staunch leader and aneminent student of late President Ho Chi Minh.
Secretary of the Hung Yen province Party Committee Do TienSy recalled Linh’s deep sentiments towards his hometown and quoted the lateleader as saying that the provincial Party Committee should work to developHung Yen in all aspects, turning it into a strong province nationwide.
The same day, a memorial site dedicated to Linh in hishometown in Yen Phu village, Giai Pham commune, Yen My district, which displaysmore than 120 documents and objects on the life and career of the late leader,received the title of the national historic relic site.
Nguyen Van Linh, born as NguyenVan Cuc on July 1, 1915 into a civil servant family in Hanoi, was GeneralSecretary of the CPV from 1986-1991.
A year after joining the patriotic movement atthe age of 14, he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Frenchcolonialists. He then was jailed on Con Dao Island which was dubbed “hell onearth” until 1936 when election of the Popular Front in France was asuccess.
After his release, Linh returned to becomeSecretary of the Party Committee of Hai Phong city. In early 1939, he was sentto Sai Gon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and became Vice Secretary of the Sai Gon PartyCommittee. Later the same year, he was assigned to the central region with themission to restore Party organisations there. He was once again arrested andimprisoned in Con Dao by the French colonial regime in early 1941.
With the success of the August Revolution in1945, Linh was, for a second time, set free and returned to Nam Bo (Southernregion) where he continued to fight for the liberation of the South andnational reunification in his capacity as Secretary of the Sai Gon-Cho Lonmunicipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Sai Gon-Cho Lon Special Zone PartyCommittee and Secretary of the Nam Bo Party Committee.
Following national reunification, Linh served asSecretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee. He was elected Party GeneralSecretary at the sixth National Party Congress in December 1986, and became thefirst Party leader to lead and organise the execution of the Party resolutionon “ Doi Moi ” (renewal), which marked a historic turning point in Vietnam’srevolutionary cause.
Linhinitiated and pursued the principles of Doi Moi while keeping to the socialistorientation, maintaining and promoting the Party’s leadership and respectingand bringing into full play the people’s right to mastery as reflected in themotto “people know, people discuss, people do and people inspect.”
The Doi Moi process has since brought aboutsignificant successes, laying firm foundations for the country to accelerate inthe next era.
Linh and the Party Central Committee alsodevoted great efforts to cleaning up Party and State mechanisms, creating aflow of fresh air to society. His column “Things to be done immediately” onNhan Dan newspaper won public approval for attacking negative phenomena in thecommunity and creating an open and democratic social atmosphere. -VNA
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