Ho Chi Minh Ville: Thousands of Vietnamese celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday, in what the country's communist leader said was a “victory of justice on tyranny”.
The celebrations led to a large parade to Ho Chi Minh Ville with thousands of walking troops and an air show featuring hunting jets and Russian manufacturing helicopters, while the Vietnamese agitated red flags and sang patriotic songs.
The historic anniversary commemorates the first act of the country's reunification on April 30, 1975, when northern Vietnam led by the Communists seized Saigon, the South capital supported by the United States, renamed Ho Chi Minh City shortly after the war in honor of the chief of the North Foundation.
“It was a victory for justice over tyranny,” the leader of the Communist Party of Vietnam said on Wednesday and the best leader in the country in Lam, citing one of the currencies of Ho Chi Minh: “Vietnam is one, the Vietnamese people made one.
The victory, about two years after Washington withdrew his last combat troops from the country, marked the end of a 20 -year conflict which killed some 3 million Vietnamese and nearly 60,000 Americans, many of whom are enlisted in the army.
“The communist troops rolled in the South Vietnamese capital practically without opposition, to the relief of the population who feared a bloody last-minute battle,” said a cable of one of the city's journalists on the day of his fall.
The cable described the victorious army as made up of “formidly armed” troops in green fatigue of the jungle but also teenagers barefoot.
