​The Vietnamese nation has a history of thousands of years of building and defending the country. The Vietnamese people, in labor activities, production, economic development, or culture, have gone through the process of overcoming the consequences of war with countless challenges, yet they have continually innovated, improved production tools, and shown courage in the face of natural disasters. From legendary era of the Hung Kings marks the beginning of nation-building, laying the foundation of present-day Vietnam until now, the Vietnamese people have engaged in dozens of wars to protect the homeland and hundreds of uprisings to drive out foreign invaders. The challenges of history in building and defending the nation have forged the Vietnamese people with noble qualities, including patriotism, courage, resilience, intelligence, diligent labor, creativity, compassion, and tolerance. These qualities have become a beautiful tradition that enhances national identity within Vietnamese culture. These spirit and quality have been inherited from generation to generation, and in the era of Ho Chi Minh, they have developed brilliantly and richly, most prominently manifested in revolutionary heroism, through the two prolonged resistance wars of the nation. It embodies the indomitable spirit and sacrifice of the entire Party, the entire army, and the entire people. On the battlefields or in the fighting villages, in the temporarily occupied enemy territories, there are militia, guerrillas, commandos, scouts, or regular troops, from the little child in a straw hat going to school to the mother ferrying soldiers across the river under bombs and bullets … everywhere in our country there are heroic miracles, heroic people, “entering the house, meeting the warrior, going out to the street, meeting the hero.” Vietnamese history shows that revolutionary heroism is a sharp weapon for our military and people to defeat the invading enemy, no matter how modern and advanced their weapons may be. Our heroism is collective heroism, as it arises in the revolutionary movement of the masses, of those who know how to rely on each other to create a combined strength - the strength of the entire people.

April 30 Victory - The Pinnacle of Vietnamese Revolutionary Heroism

The heroism of the Vietnamese revolution is also a combination of courage and creative intelligence in methods of fighting against the enemy, mastering the weapons and means at hand, from primitive to modern, fighting against the enemy on land, at sea, and in the air. Vietnamese revolutionary heroism is manifested on all fronts and in all fields, as our resistance war is a nationwide, comprehensive, and prolonged struggle. Workers, farmers, students, intellectuals in both mountainous and lowland areas; women or men, laborers carrying ammunition or scientists, artists, journalists… all the people of our country participated in the fight. For women, they created a long-haired army that broke the enemy's attacking formations or took command of artillery positions, …

The revolutionary heroism of Vietnam during the resistance war contributed to the victory over the colonial army and the puppet troops equipped with modern weapons and abundant resources. Our forces created a gigantic battlefield surrounding a stronghold, "forcing rivers to bend and mountains to bow," opening routes to transport artillery "along the length of the Truong Son to save the country," holding firm on the “steel” ground of Cu Chi right next to the enemy's headquarters, bringing the war into urban areas through simultaneous offensives, tightening the guerrilla belts, attacking the enemy with three-pronged assaults, defeating them on land, on rivers, and in the air with the Dien Bien Phu campaign, paving the way for the historic Ho Chi Minh campaign that achieved complete victory in the spring of 1975.

President Ho Chi Minh - Hero of the Vietnamese National Liberation

Under the light of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, the Vietnamese people always value and inherit the beautiful traditions of the nation, setting examples from good people and good deeds to heroes, emulation soldiers, organizing patriotic emulation movements with many advanced models, elevating revolutionary heroism to new heights, with various achievements, like a garden of blooming flowers and golden hues. The hatred for the enemy drives our military and people to fight and sacrifice for independence, freedom, and national unity. However, Vietnamese revolutionary heroism is not merely an expression of outburst; its foundation is the awareness of our military and people about the national defence goals through revolutionary stages that must be sustainable, even in the face of temporary failures, remaining undaunted, continuously attacking, and calmly responding to all situations.

It can be said that Vietnamese revolutionary heroism reflects the distinctive features in the new development of the Vietnamese people over the past century. It exemplifies the conscience and dignity of humanity. It is a sharp weapon for the Vietnamese to demonstrate that people have triumphed over the modern technical weapons of imperialism, rendering the "theory of weapons" obsolete. At the same time, it is also the result of people mastering science and technology, being courageous, and always striving for the heights of intellect and solidarity. Revolutionary heroism in the resistance, peaking in the great victory of Spring 1975, is being strongly promoted in the current process of industrialization, modernization, and nation-building and development.