February 3, 2010 is the 80th anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. This is the first major and important event of the country in 2010. On this occasion, Party members of the Party Committee of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities shared their memories of the early days of joining the Party as well as contributing ideas to the Party building work.
February 3, 2010 is the 80th anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. This is the first major and important event of the country in 2010. On this occasion, Party members of the Party Committee of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities shared their memories of the early days of joining the Party as well as contributing ideas to the Party building work.
I still remember on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Party's founding, Uncle Ho said: "Our Party is moral and civilized". He spoke concisely but very deeply. And those who study history up to now increasingly realize the value of the summary, the extremely correct summary of that saying. It can be seen that the birth, maturity, growth and the successes that the Communist Party of Vietnam has achieved throughout the struggle for national liberation and nation building are closely linked to the great role of the pioneer revolutionary of the nation, Uncle Ho. Uncle Ho's thoughts have accompanied our Party throughout the early days of its founding and to this day continue to accompany the Party and the nation in the new development path and still retain their value.
[img class="caption" src="images/stories/2010/02/03/lemauhan.jpg" border="0" alt="Assoc. Prof. Le Mau Han - 50-year-old Party member, former Head of the History Department, Hanoi National University. (Photo: NA/USSH)" title="Assoc. Prof. Le Mau Han - 50-year-old Party member, former Head of the History Department, Hanoi National University. (Photo: NA/USSH)" width="580"/>In 1911, Nguyen Tat Thanh, a progressive young man, left to find a way to save the country and liberate the nation. That young man left with only the baggage of being a son of the Vietnamese people, a nation formed early in history, a nation that had a sense of solidarity and mutual support, a deep awareness of its territory, of its sovereignty, and fought with the will to protect its life. That was also the strength, the driving force, and the goal of our people's fight. Uncle Ho stated: the victory of the Vietnamese revolution was the victory of the will and aspiration for independence and freedom of our nation. Those strengths, those great spiritual values of the nation were raised to a new level by Ho Chi Minh on the basis of studying and absorbing the values of Eastern and Western civilization, through studying the guidelines and lessons of major revolutions in the world since the 17th century. Finally, Nguyen Tat Thanh was extremely happy when he encountered the ideology of Marxism and the October Revolution. Although many values of Marxism have not yet come true, it must be seen that the goal of Marxism is to build a society without oppressing classes, a society in which human freedom is guaranteed, that is a noble goal. When studying Marxism and learning from the October Revolution, Ho Chi Minh was not dogmatic but extremely creative in order to be able to skillfully apply it to the practical situation of the Vietnamese revolution. It can be said that the contents of Ho Chi Minh's ideology are comprehensive, of the stature of a doctrine, that is the doctrine of revolution, of liberation to achieve independence and freedom.
When I became a student at the University, many of my friends and I were conscious of striving to become Party members. That was also the consciousness of striving of the entire young generation at that time. That aspiration was strongly supported by the Party Cell. After my own efforts, when I was a 4th year student of the Faculty of History, I was considered for admission to the Party by the Party Cell. I still remember that day, June 5, 1967.
[img class="caption" src="images/stories/2010/02/03/nguyenvanham.jpg" border="0" alt="Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Van Ham - Party member of the Department of Archival Studies and Office Management. (Photo: NA/USSH)" title="Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Van Ham - Party member of the Department of Archival Studies and Office Management. (Photo: NA/USSH)" width="580"/>The day I was admitted to the Party is associated with a very profound memory. At that time, I and two other comrades, fourth-year students, were assigned to the Prime Minister's Archives Department, evacuated to ATK Tuyen Quang to research and write our graduation thesis. From ATK to Dai Tu, Thai Nguyen, the school's evacuation site at that time, we had to ride our bicycles over Khe Pass, a distance of dozens of kilometers. Going up the pass was difficult but safe, going down did not require much effort but was very dangerous. The two of us had the initiative to find a large tree branch to tie to the back of the bicycle to help reduce speed, then slowly release the brake and go down the pass. When we went down the pass, we could no longer recognize ourselves because we were covered in dust. When we returned to the school, everyone was very happy. The very next morning, my Party admission ceremony was held in a classroom that was half submerged in the ground to avoid enemy bombs.
The admission ceremony was solemn, sacred but also very simple. We were assigned to hang pictures of Karl Marx, Lenin, Uncle Ho, the Party flag, and personally cut out the words “Long live the Vietnamese Labor Party” from student notebooks and pasted them on the wall. That day’s admission ceremony, along with the memory of having to go down Khe Pass to get to school in time for the ceremony, became an unforgettable impression for me. And even more fortunately, I was retained and became one of the first people to build the Archival Studies department at Hanoi University of Science, continuing to dedicate my life to the place where I grew up.
Throughout my life, being in the Party's ranks and now having over 40 years of Party membership is truly an honor and pride for me.
After joining the Party, my wish is to promote the vanguard and exemplary character of a Party member. Working wholeheartedly for the collective, completing any assigned task, sincerely giving advice, helping colleagues..., that is my mindset as a Party member. I think that if the Party can create trust among the people, can create its own strength, it must rely on genuine Party members. Therefore, the work of developing the Party among young cadres and students must be one of the key tasks of our school's Party Committee, thereby not only motivating and helping young people to improve themselves but also contributing to strengthening the Party's strength. For teachers and Party members in our school, based on the characteristics of the school, I think that the best way to educate students about tradition is through lectures imbued with intelligence and humanity, through the moral example of teachers.
This year is a year of many major events for the country, in which one of the first major events is the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam - an event that opens a new spring for the country, in a new decade of the 21st century. The 80-year journey of a party is not necessarily too long, but it is something special for a party that has gone through 80 years of development associated with the historical process of an entire nation and of the Vietnamese revolution spanning from the 20th century to the 21st century. This is the ruling party, the Communist Party, the organization that plays the most decisive and important role throughout the development process of the nation's history.
[img class="caption" src="images/stories/2010/02/03/lambanam.jpg" border="0" alt="Assoc.Prof.Dr. Lam Ba Nam - Party member of the History Faculty Party cell, former Deputy Secretary of the School Party Committee. (Photo: NA/USSH)" title="Assoc.Prof.Dr. Lam Ba Nam - Party member of the History Faculty Party cell, former Deputy Secretary of the School Party Committee. (Photo: NA/USSH)" align="left" width="214"/>50 years ago, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Vietnam Workers' Party, Uncle Ho said: "Our Party is truly great!" In 1945, at the age of 15 and with only over 5,000 members, the Party mobilized the masses to create the glorious victory of the August Revolution. Many generations of revolutionary soldiers and Party members shed blood and sacrificed for this great cause. Since then, after 80 years, our Party has grown steadily, and its forces have become increasingly powerful. More and more young cadres, scientists, and intellectuals have strived and joined the Party.
For me personally, a person who has been a Party member for over 30 years, my entire youth has been spent in the ranks of the Party. At that time, joining the Party was an important and sacred event for the youth of that time. We joined the Party with only one purpose: to be in the ranks of the elite, to fight for the revolutionary cause, the cause of the nation. When I joined the Party in 1978, my father, who was the political commissar of a regiment, was very happy to know that I was a soldier who had strived to be in the ranks of the Party. He wrote me a letter of congratulations. Becoming a Party member is a sacred thing, but I always keep in mind that keeping that title, living up to that title throughout my life is much more important. Therefore, for me, although I have been a Party member for over 30 years, I always think that that period of time is only a part of my whole career, my whole life. Another important part is that from now until I leave this world, I must always strive to be worthy of the noble title - the title of a party member.
I think, in the upcoming development stage, there are two major issues that the Party needs to pay attention to: One is to make our Party truly clean. If the Party is not clean, it will lose the people's trust and its strength.
Second, the Party must improve its intelligence. The Party's intelligence is decisive in the development direction of an entire nation as the ruling party. The practical lessons of our Party over the past 80 years show that the flesh-and-blood relationship between the Party and the people is the most important factor in the victory of the revolution. If the Party makes the people believe, then the Party's ideology will enter the people's lives. The Party belongs to the nation, belongs to the people, but does not stand above the nation, above the people. If the people do not consider the Party organization as their own, then the Party's strength will no longer exist. And the Party's intelligence will only be multiplied when the Party knows how to use the intelligence of the entire nation to create great intelligence.
If the Communist Party of Vietnam turns 80, I will have the honor of being a member for 30 years. In other words, the title of member of the Communist Party of Vietnam has been an important part of my life and perhaps the most quintessential part of our entire generation. And speaking of that, we can cry, we can be happy and we can be proud. The years as a member of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and then as a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam were the most beautiful years of my youth.
[img class="caption" src="images/stories/2010/02/03/nguyenhaike.jpg" border="0" alt="Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Hai Ke - Party member of the History Faculty Party cell. (Photo: NA/USSH)" title="Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Hai Ke - Party member of the History Faculty Party cell. (Photo: NA/USSH)" width="580"/>Still remembering that day at Hanoi University, for our generation like Nguyen Hai Ke, Le Chi Que, Nguyen Quang Ngoc, Le Kim Boi, Hoang Van Nhung,... becoming a party member was a source of pride, deep emotion and confidence in one's own maturity associated with the regime. That pride is hard to describe, so when we talk about it, we feel like we are returning to something very sacred. For the generation born, raised, and inherited the regime from 1954 onwards, the aspiration to strive to become a member of the Communist Party is an extremely sacred and pure thing.
I am proud that those years have passed on to our generation a strength, which today's era calls "soft" strength. Under normal conditions, that strength can be hidden as if it does not exist, but whenever there is an obstacle ahead, that soft strength contributes to multiplying and motivating us to overcome difficulties that seem insurmountable. I am proud that our generation has worthyly inherited the class of true communist party members of the previous generation. It is not fanciful, not romantic, nor idealistic because I know that in the thousand-year-old quality of the Vietnamese people, the nation has "given birth" to the Communist Party of Vietnam, the quintessence of the nation has "given birth" to true party members, becoming the General Staff with a vision that penetrates the temporary obstacles of the nation on the path of survival, on the long and difficult journey of a country, a nation that has encountered many storms in its development journey. We lived and walked with that belief without any pride or satisfaction. Even though at that time, we may not have understood much about the long and arduous journey of the transition period, from a small-scale, poor, backward peasant society to a civilized, modern, equal, free, and fraternal society.
The starting point and motivation for all efforts is just an extremely pure belief. Obviously, we must be grateful for that!
We were lucky to stay in the North, but many generations of friends after 1954, who went to the battlefield, devoted themselves to the struggle to liberate the South and unify the country, have remained forever. Those generations were very innocent. The journey to a fair, equal, civilized society is a long, thorny road. Here and there, at different times in life, there are times of sadness and disappointment, but we know how to overcome them with that initial strong belief. Those are some of my thoughts and feelings on the occasion of the Party's 80th anniversary and my 30th anniversary of Party membership.
As a party member, a citizen and a scientist, the greatest aspiration of our generation is to constantly explore and discover to find the objective truth of science and of life. As party members of a ruling party, a leading party, we must understand that: through science and with responsibility to social life, social scientists and humanities must always think and explore to discover the major issues of Vietnamese social sciences and humanities, especially in this period of industrialization and modernization.
Summarizing the history of social sciences and the country's socio-cultural life is extremely important and is a premise for finding future directions. Vietnamese social scientists, including myself, must find there the strengths that are both human and Vietnamese, crystallized and deposited over thousands of years, to answer the question: today, in the integration process, what advantages do Vietnamese social sciences, Vietnamese society, and Vietnamese people have in the integration process? Integration is not to be like others, but to be on par with humanity while still maintaining and inheriting what belongs to the Vietnamese people, to be able to evoke one's own strength, the quintessence of the Vietnamese people to contribute to the common richness of humanity. That is the responsibility of social scientists, including the role of party members because party members and party organizations are essentially the combat staff that have been recognized by society over the past 80 years. That recognition is proven by the process of successfully fighting for national independence, building a fair, civilized society and integrating with the world. That task is extremely arduous, extremely challenging but also extremely glorious. That is why the path of striving and training, in the religious sense called "cultivation", is a process of arduous training not only for individuals but also for the entire Party organization, with the support and inspection of the entire society.
•Thanh Ha (perform)
Author:Thanh Ha
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