Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh has highlighted the significance of the Great Russian October Revolution 90 years ago, which he said lit the road to the liberation of oppressed nations and opened up a new era of national independence, freedom and socialism around the world.

Mr. Manh made the remarks at a grand meeting in Hanoi on November 7 marking the 90th anniversary of the revolution. The event was attended by senior Vietnamese Party, State, Government, National Assembly, and Fatherland Front leaders, and leaders of ministries, agencies, armed forces and mass organisations in Hanoi. Prof. Dr. V.P. Buianov, head of the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association and officials from the Russian Embassy in Hanoi were also on hand.

In his speech, the Vietnamese Party leader said that the revolution led by Vladimir Ylich Lenin and the Russian Bolshevik Party smashed the shackles of the then Czarist Empire, shook capitalism and opened up a new chapter of development for humankind. He said the success of the revolution, the first of its kind in the world, culminated in the establishment of the first workers-peasantry state in the world which later formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) covering one sixth of the globe’s area stretching from Europe to Asia.

After the revolution, Mr. Manh noted that the Soviet people, under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, began the national reconstruction process and made miraculous achievements. By defeating fascism in 1945, the Soviet Union liberated itself and other nations in Europe and the world from the fascist tragedy.

During the socialist construction process, the Party leader said from a poor nation, the Soviet Union emerged as a global power and set a role model in building a new society without human exploitation, serving as the mainstay for the revolutionary movements around the world. He quoted late President Ho Chi Minh as saying the Russian October Revolution lit the road for other oppressed nations and humankind to liberate themselves, helping open up a new era of transition from capitalism to socialism throughout the world.

Mr. Manh noted that in light of the revolution, the then President Ho Chi Minh had tried to disseminate Marxist-Leninism and socialist ideology into Vietnam, resulting in the merger of Party organisations into the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1930 to lead the Vietnamese revolution. Since then, the Vietnamese revolution had experienced many ups and downs and enjoyed the success of the August 1945 Revolution which led to the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to enter a new era of national independence, freedom and socialism.

“The world today is much different from what it was nearly 100 years ago and each nation has the right to select the road to socialism appropriate with its situation and characteristics. It is not necessary for nations to apply the same model,” stressed Mr Manh.   

The Party leader affirmed that as the only ruling party over the past 70 years, the Communist Party of Vietnam has fulfilled the leadership role entrusted to it by the people and taken responsibility to the people for what it has done. 

He took the occasion to thank socialist countries and international friends for their whole-hearted support for the Vietnamese revolution in the past and at present. 

“Vietnam wants to strengthen friendship with all countries for the strength of each nation and for peace, cooperation and development in the world,” said Mr. Manh.

He said that the entire Party, people and army of Vietnam are determined to accelerate the Doi Moi (Renewal) process in line with the resolutions adopted at the 10th National Party Congress in 2006 and strive to lift Vietnam from its underdeveloped nation status by 2010 and become an industrial nation by 2020. (VOV)