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Vietnam celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the end of what the American war called on Wednesday with a loud show in the city of Hoshi Minh, which includes soldiers, dancers, and speeches that celebrate what the Communist leader in the country called “the victory of justice”.
This event brought dozens if not hundreds of thousands, according to the government media, including many who were overwhelmed in the morning celebrations.
“The atmosphere was very special,” said Nagwin Thi Song, 18, who joined some of the twelfth grade colleagues on the busy sidewalk near the Opera. “It was important for me to feel that I am part of this country – and part of this date.”
The scenes of the celebration, with a sea of ​​red and yellow, which represents the flag of Vietnam in front of the high -end French retailers and Americans, indicated the emergence of the last day of the arduous war in this country.
The city of Hoshi Minh, which is still known as Sigon, is now a vibrant pulsar of 9 million people, where skyscrapers remain a handful of buildings with war and streets full of locally made electric cars and young people who take selfies on Instagram.
In most days, people will tell you that the war is not related, very anxious, except as a source of severe stories that drive young people to be grateful to what they have.
But April 30 is different.
Every year, Vietnam honors the dead and tells how the vulnerable in the French and the Americans was eventually defeated by Vietnam.
On Wednesday, to Lam, the Supreme Commander of the Communist Party in Vietnam, multiplied many usual ropes in a speech to international visitors, which did not include the American ambassador.
But the American Consul General, Susan Burns, was – softening a former guidance from Washington prohibiting senior diplomats.
Mr. Lam described the conflict as a struggle for national independence, the resistance movement against French colonialism and the American aggression. Celebrated the “Liberation of the South”, which Washington generally referred to as the “fall of Sigon”.
Vietnam also included forces from China in a procession on Wednesday for the first time, as it made public recognition of the help of Beijing during the war. However, it was not a big surprise: a video of the Chinese forces was shared in a rehearsal that sings the popular national song, “as if the uncle was with us on the Great Victory Day” was widely shared on social media.
However, there were also hints of a more reconciliation approach with the former enemies. Although Vietnam is sweeping her teeth in negotiations with the White House on the proposed definitions (and postponing them) by 46 percent, Mr. Lam indicated that the year 2025 also, when the United States and Vietnam celebrate a 30 -year diplomatic relations.
When reaffirmed an article published on Sunday, and he confessed to the need for more reconciliation between the north and the south, he also talked about “respecting differences”.
“All Vietnamese are sons and daughters in this country,” he said. “They have the right to live, to work, to continue happiness and love.”
Mrs. Song found that, the twelfth grade student, like many others on the course of the show, the message is convincing. She fought her ancestors for the north, but she said that it was time to overcome our biases. “
“We are all Vietnamese,” she said. “We all have a feeling of pride.”
On Wednesday, it was completely displayed. Advertising panels that go beyond Ho Chi Minh with pictures of new bridges, linking previous struggles for modern development. Families sang national songs. The young man and hip took pictures of the helicopter flying over the Independence Palace, the headquarters of the southern government, which was seized by the northern forces on April 30, 1975.
When asked if anything they would change, a few showers of presentation have occurred about the need to eliminate corruption, to create an economy that serves as much.
But many also indicated the admiration of the new buildings that could have been imagined in the 1970s and eighties, when the economy written by the war was on his knees.
“He traveled from the boycott that traveled from the boycott that traveled from the boycott that traveled from the province who traveled from the boycott that traveled from the boycott that traveled from the boycott that traveled from the boycott was said to the province that traveled from the boycott to the province that he traveled from the boycott until he was Che Minh was wearing his military uniform on Wednesday:” It is very emotional, to see all the developments and changes that occur in Vietnam. “
He added: “I do not think that anyone who wants to fight Vietnam now,” noting that he fought the Chinese in the war that erupted in 1979. “We are strong and confident.”
We met next to the Rex Hotel, where the US military used to hold its surgery, claiming that the war had won. The journalists called them “Foot at five o’clock.”
Ho Chi Minh is now nearby. Vu Thi Ninh Thuy, 42, gathered, there after the show to take pictures with a few friends. She said that she had gone out early in the morning that the fiftieth anniversary was a unique event.
She said, “I wanted to be part of it.” “I wanted to feel what was the case in historical times.”
NGO Tung contributed to the reports.