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Seminar highlights Great Spring Victory 1975

A seminar discussing the military offensive that ended the Vietnam War and reunified the country 35 years ago was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 20.
A seminar discussing the militaryoffensive that ended the Vietnam War and reunified the country 35 yearsago was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 20.

The seminar, entitled “The Great Spring Victory 1975 - Strength ofNational Unity in the Ho Chi Minh Era,” was co-hosted by the Ministry ofNational Defence and the municipal Party Committee.

Close to 150 research papers submitted to the seminar, including 20speeches delivered on the day, further elucidated the historicalsignificance of the Spring 1975 Offensive, with the Ho Chi Minh Campaignas its peak, which completely liberated the South and reunified thenation.

The speeches portrayed the victory of the resistance war against USaggression as a convergence of various factors, such as theparticipation of the entire nation in a just war and the sound andcreative revolutionary guidelines of the Party.

The Party judiciously combined the strengths of the nation in thatera, and enhanced international solidarity to create the strongestpossible force to defeat the foreign invaders, the participants heard.

The seminar was a practical activity to promote the revolutionarytradition and the national spirit of solidarity, as well as rejectdistorted arguments discounting the value and significance of thehistoric event./.
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