History, on this day : LIBERATION

69 years ago, on May 7, 1954, the Việt Minh and general Võ Nguyên Giáp crush in Ðiện Biên Phủ the French arrogant fantasy of protracting colonialism. A landslide military victory, which will stimulate the victorious uprising in Algeria and lead in 1975, against the US, to the complete liberation of Viêt Nam

Võ Nguyên Giáp and Hồ Chí Minh in 1950
Advertisement

One response to “History, on this day : LIBERATION”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: