V.I.Lenin.

On the occastion of the 92^nd anniversary of the great Russian October Revolution, To Huy Rua, Politburo member, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Propaganda and Education Commission and Chairman of the Central Theory Council has written an important article. We would like to give the following extract of it.

Mr Rua wrote: Ninety two years ago on 7 November 1917 under the leadership of the Communist Party of Russia (Bolshevik) headed by great V.I. Lenin, the Russian October Revolution was brought to a victorious end and entered the history of human kind as the greatest event of the 20^th Century, ushering in a new epoch – the transitional epoch to socialism on the world scale. The Russian October Revolution awakened the oppressed nations and shone the path of development and advancement to socialism.. The victory of the October Revolution reaffirmed the scientific and revolutionary nature of Marxism-Leninism, supplying the priceless historical lessons for the revolutions for national independence and socialism. In a not long period of time, from a moderate capitalist country, the Soviet Union became a powerful country, the principal force to have saved human kind from the curse of fascism, creating conditions for a series of Eastern European and Asian countries and then the Latin American countries to have waged victoriously their national revolution and to step by step transitionally advance towards socialism. The October Revolution had broken a big part of the capitalist world, creating conditions for the originally colonialist countries to have won their national independence and their right for self-determination for development.

Having been encouraged by the victory of the October Revolution and with the paving of the way for the new epoch created by the revolution itself, all the nations having won their national independence could pass through the transitional period to socialism. The opening of the possibility and good prospect of history could be considered as a priceless contribution of the October Revolution to human kind. This cannot but be said about the great services of V.I. Lenin with his theoritical discoveries. The victory of the October Revolution and the coming into being of the Soviet Russia turned socialism from the theoritical doctrine into a new socialist society. From here capitalism was negated as far principle was concerned and it was for that reason that all the originally colonial and backward nations, which still had the pre-capitalist relations on the way of their development, could advance transitionally to socialism bypassing capitalism. National independence in close association with socialism had become objective trend of development in conformity with historical - natural logic which had been pointed out by classicists of Marxism-Leninism and President Ho Chi Minh had early recognised it as the development path of the Vietnamese revolution. Judging the October Revolution, President Ho Chi Minh confirmed: “Like the bright sun, the October Revolution has shone all the continents, awakening millions and millions of the oppressed and exploited people on the earth. In the history of human kind, there has never been such a revolution of great and profound significance”.

The Russian October Revolution is a source of great encouragement to the Vietnamese revolution. Having followed the path charted by the October Revolution, the Communist Party of Vietnam founded and trained by President Ho Chi Minh raised high right from its nascency the flag of national independence and socialism and led its people to launch the successful 1945 August Revolution, conducted two resistance wars and defeated two big French and US imperialists, taking the whole country to advance to socialism, firmly defending the national border sovereignty and fully implementing the noble international duties; by starting the renewal work of the country, it has recorded great achievements of historic significance. In so far as the nature and trend of objective development of history in the 20^th Century, the victory of the Vietnamese revolution in the past 79 years, first of all, should go to the victory of Marxism-Leninism creatively applied and developed by the Communist Party of Vietnam to the specific historical conditions of Vietnam. This victory had the profound and direct source from the influence of the Russian October Revolution. This is the result from the profound awareness of the trend and objective law of the historical development, of the great strength of the working class, the labouring people and all the oppressed and exploited people who had been awakened, assembled and united under the leadership of a new type of a Party – the genuine revolutionary party of the working class nature, striving to the end for the victory of socialism and communism. President Ho Chi Minh reaffirmed: “As a Vietnamese saying goes, ‘When you drink water, you must remember its source’. The more we think about the shameful days of losing the country, remembering each stage of the revolutionary struggle full of sacrifices and hardships but also full of glorious victories, the more the Vietnamese working class and labouring people are penetrated with great services of V.I. Lenin and the October Revolution”.

After giving some general outlines of the role of the Russian October Revolution towards the revolutionary movement in the world and Vietnam, Mr Rua deals with the struggle against the wrong, hostile viewpoints to protect the fruits of the October revolution and defend the construction of the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam at present.

The fall of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is only the fall of a model of socialism in the process of reaching the objectives of building a socialist society. It is not synonymous and homogeneous with the end of socialism in its capacity as an ideology, a goal, a new type of a socialist society belonging to the socio-economic form of communism which the whole human kind is striving to reach. In the process of building socialism, each country has a model to choose for its own. The socialist trends has been vigorously developing the world in the early years of the 21^st Century and it has proven to the clear-sighted remarks of President Ho Chi Minh: “The October revolution has opened up the road of liberation for all the nations and for the whole human kind, starting a new epoch in history, the transitional epoch from capitalism to socialism in the whole world”

“The great achievements of socialism over the past 90 years, particularly the achievements in the renewal work of the socialist countries in recent years, have all the more proven to the superiority of socialism, the creative force and the renewal capabilities and the contributions of the socialist countries to peace, national independence, democracy, civilisation and social progress. The spirit of the October Revolution  has encouraged all of us to display the strength of great unity of the nation, continue to advance forward on the renewal path, build and protect the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam for the noble objectives of a prosperous people, powerful country, an equal, democratic and civilised society”, Mr Rua concludes.