The light of the Great October Revolution shines on
Ha Noi (VNA) - This year, the Vietnamese people are celebrating the
Great Russian Revolution of October 1917, 20 years into "doi moi", or
renewal, while facing the heavy tasks and challenges created by
international integration and globalisation.
When Russian sailors, armed only with courage and rifles, rushed the
Winter Palace, they could not have known that their action would help
change the fate of remote Vietnamese peasants labouring in feudal
slavery.
The gunfire from the cruiser Aurora that broke the dark sky over Saint
Petersburg on November 7, awoke the entire world, including
outstanding Vietnamese revolutionaries searching for the way to
national liberation.
President Ho Chi Minh wrote about the event in this way: "Like the
brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents,
awaking millions of oppressed and exploited people around the world.
"There has never existed such a revolution of such significance and
scale in all the history of humanity."
And although 88 years have now passed and history has seen many more
upheavals, the noble ideology of Vladimir I. Lenin and the October
Revolution maintains its strength.
The achievements of the world's first revolution of workers and
peasants have survived the test of time and are remembered by all
progressive mankind.
The revolution founded an entirely new socio-political system totally
different in nature from all those that preceded it or which then
existed.
For the first time, the right of working people to control their own
fate and the right of each country to equality and self-determination
was ensured.
Millions of poor Russians set out to build a fair, equal and humane
society - the dream of mankind - in a country that spread from Asia to
Europe.
This had great historical meaning and was a great source of
encouragement to working people of all colours and of all continents
as they challenged oppression to live in freedom, independence and
happiness.
American journalist John Reed, who witnessed "the days that shook the
world" wrote that no matter what was said about Bolshevism, it could
not be denied that the Russian Revolution was one of mankind's great
events.
Speaking about the accomplishments of the State of workers and farmers
that grew out of the October Revolution, Albert Einstein said that no
state - except the Socialist Soviet Union - had done so much for
people in such a short time while facing such great difficulties and
challenges.
Einsteins conclusions were based on reality.
In a short time, the Soviet Union - the fruit of the October
Revolution - grew from an average country into among the most powerful
in the world. It produced record economic achievements and
improvements in living standards.
Further, the people of the Soviet Union, led by the Communist Party,
were the key to saving humankind from fascism during World War II.
Their effort created conditions favourable to revolutions for national
liberation and the advance to socialism in Asia, Eastern Europe and
the Western hemisphere.
Guided by the torch of the October Revolution and history's first
Socialist state, myriad colonised countries rose to independence and
the inevitable demolition of colonialism.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the early '90s
was a heavy loss and a step backward for Socialism but in history's
road of about turns it taught precious lessons to Communist Parties
and the international worker movement.
Still it was no surprise when some Western scholars and politicians,
for their own political purposes, used subjective and imposed
arguments to loudly deny the October Revolution's accomplishments.
It was "a mistaken step of history," "an adventure," "a uprising that
was contrary to the rule," and "the death knell of Communism," they
proclaimed.
In doing so, they intentionally denied the great achievements that the
October Revolution brought the Russian people and the former Soviet
Republics, as well as mankind.
They pretended not to know that the Socialism, originating from the
October Revolution, was still a reality for more than one-fifth of
mankind.
The Socialist countries, together with the international Communist and
worker movement and progressive forces, have always stood at the front
line in the fight for peace, development and a more equal and better
world for all nations.
More dangerously, some Western extremists are attempting to stage a
drama, that they call "the necessity to have the crimes of communism
internationally condemned."
While it is not necessary to discuss the shady political thoughts of
these people - thoughts which pay no regard to either reality or
history - we ask them the following question: "What would have been
mankind's future without the fight and sacrifice by millions of Soviet
Communists and people to defeat fascism in World War II"?
How would the world political map have been drawn and where would they
have fitted into such a map given their absurd judgement from such
extraordinary reasoning?
The Vietnamese people, following the path set by the October
Revolution and led by the Communist Party of Viet Nam and President Ho
Chi Minh, successfully launched the August Revolution in 1945.
They defeated two major imperialists to gain national independence and
reunification and in doing so set a bright example in the struggle by
oppressed nations.
Viet Nam is now on the road to building socialism and its goal of a
prosperous people, a strong country and a fair, democratic and
civilised society.
Illuminated by the October Revolution, President Ho Chi Minh and the
Vietnamese Communists acquired and creatively applied the basic
principles of Marxism-Leninism to the specific conditions of their
country's revolution and the formation of Ho Chi Minh Thought.
These combine great ethic and humane values through a system of
arguments about the direction of the nation's development and the
reasons people have for living.
The victory of the Vietnamese revolution and the achievements obtained
through renewal, which were based on the spiritual foundation of
Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, reflect the great power,
intelligence and creativity of the Vietnamese Communists and people in
the face of the new era's requirements.
At each stage of development, the Vietnamese people have always
remembered President Ho Chi Minh's words: "Looking back at the sad
days of losing the country and each stage of the revolutionary
struggle that was filled with sacrifice and hardship as well as
glorious victories, the working class and people of Viet Nam are all
the more grateful to the great merits of Lenin and the October
Revolution."
The humane ideal of the October Revolution has always shone brightly
and provided great encouragement to the Vietnamese people in their
process of national renewal and development.-
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