The Hanoitimes – The streets and many places, especially historical sites, in Hanoi capital have been decorated with flowers and flags to celebrate Vietnam’s National Day, September 2.
On this day, 68 years ago, President Ho Chi Minh made public the Declaration of Independence at
Ba Dinh Square
(Hanoi), thus founding the Democratic Republic of Vietnam with Hanoi as its capital.
The Japaneseoccupied Vietnam during World War II but allowed the French to remain and exert some influence. At the war’s end in August 1945, a power vacuum was created in Vietnam.
Capitalizing on this, the Viet Minh launched the “August Revolution” across the country to seize government offices. Emperor Bao Dai abdicated on August 25, 1945, ending the Nguyen Dynasty.
On September 2, 1945, at Ba Dinh Square, Ho Chi Minh, leader of the communist Viet Minh organization, declared Vietnam’s independence under the new name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN) in a speech that invoked the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution‘s Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
By Nguyen Ngan
Đăng ký: VietNam News