(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary To Lam has described the victory on April 30, 1975 as a shining symbol of revolutionary heroism, the will for independence, resilience, and the strength of great national unity.
 Party General Secretary To Lam |
In his recent article, titled “Vietnam is one, the Vietnamese people are one,” the Party leader stressed that the victory was the result of the Vietnamese people's unwavering determination to build a unified nation that could never be divided by any force.
It reaffirmed President Ho Chi Minh’s statement: “Vietnam is one, the Vietnamese people are one. Rivers may run dry, mountains may erode, but this truth shall never change.”
After 50 years of national reunification, Vietnam now has enough mettle, confidence, pride, and tolerance to transcend its pain and look forward together so that the past war is no longer a divide between people of the Lac Hong bloodline.
On that journey of development, the policy of national reconciliation has consistently been identified by the Party and State as a long-term strategic choice and a pillar of the great national unity bloc. All Vietnamese people - whether at home or abroad, regardless of which side they once stood on in history - share the same roots, language, and love for their homeland.
National reconciliation does not mean forgetting the history or erasing differences, but accepting different perspectives in tolerance and respect, to work towards a greater goal: building a peaceful, unified, powerful, civilized, and prosperous Vietnam, so future generations will never have to witness war, separation, hatred, and loss as their ancestors did, General Secretary Lam said.
‘We cannot rewrite history, but we can shape up our future. The past is to remember, to be grateful for, and to learn lessons from. The future is for building, creating, and developing together,” the article said.
Independence and reunification are not the finish line, but the starting point of a new journey: building a nation of peace, prosperity, civilization, development, and sustainability.
If previous generations engraved in history the truth that "Vietnam is one nation, and the Vietnamese people are one" through immense sacrifice and loss, then it is the mission of today’s generation to turn that ideal into a driving force for development and into wings for the nation to soar in the new era, Party leader To Lam noted.