The first dispatches – news reports, photos, and eyewitness accounts – came from reporters of the VNA and Thông tấn xã Giải Phóng (Liberation Press Agency - LPA). Their coverage swiftly swept across the country and reached global audiences, capturing with the historic moments of the nation’s victory against the US, the fall of the US-backed Saigon regime, and the collapse of Washington’s “Vietnamisation” strategy.

The Great 1975 Spring Victory of Vietnam had a profound impact on the global political balance in the second half of the 20th century, while creating a ripple effect worldwide amidst the crisis of the old colonial regime.

Major General, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dang Sy Loc, Director of the Political Academy, attributed to the Great 1975 Spring Victory to the clear-sighted and strategic leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and the overall strength of the people’s war.

The great Dien Bien Phu Victory on May 7, 1954 turned a new page in the history of world revolution, becoming a great source of encouragement for the struggle for independence in other countries around the world, according to General Secretary of the Labour Party (PT) of Mexico Alberto Anaya Guitiérrez.

The Party’s clear-sighted leadership was the decisive factor in the Great 1975 Spring Victory that liberated Vietnam’s south and reunified the country, according to General Luong Cuong, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army.