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.

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

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

The speeches portrayed the victory of the resistance war against US aggression as a convergence of various factors, such as the participation of the entire nation in a just war and the sound and creative revolutionary guidelines of the Party.

The Party judiciously combined the strengths of the nation in that era, and enhanced international solidarity to create the strongest possible force to defeat the foreign invaders, the participants heard.

The seminar was a practical activity to promote the revolutionary tradition and the national spirit of solidarity, as well as reject distorted arguments discounting the value and significance of the historic event./.