Chapter 26 An easy and pleasant temporary whistle

On April 30, 1975, all of South Vietnam, including Saigon, was liberated. The puppet governments of Nguyen Van Thieu and Yang Minh Nam, supported by the United States, fell apart and collapsed on the same day.This is the glorious victory of the Vietnamese people who have shed blood and sacrificed for more than ten years in the war against the United States and for national salvation.On the same day, Chairman Mao, Chairman Zhu De, and Premier Zhou jointly signed a telegram to congratulate the liberation of Saigon. On May 2, 1975, people from all walks of life in the capital held a rally in the Great Hall of the People to warmly celebrate the liberation of Saigon by the Vietnamese people and the liberation of South Vietnam.According to the arrangement of the superior, my company sent three comrades to participate in this rally, and dispatched nearly 20 officers and soldiers to perform this temporary security task on the west side of Tiananmen Square. I was one of them.

Red flags fluttered in the wind on the roof of the Great Hall of the People, and there was a festive atmosphere outside the east gate of the Great Hall.Before the meeting time, people took various special vehicles to the square outside the east gate of the great hall early. Due to the large number of vehicles, many vehicles were arranged by the traffic police to Tiananmen Square, west of the Monument to the People's Heroes.We are mainly responsible for maintaining order at the scene, preventing irrelevant personnel from entering the cordoned-off zone, and ensuring the safety of people and vehicles participating in the rally.

Representatives from all walks of life including workers, peasants, students, and the People's Liberation Army participated in the rally.Everyone knew that they were attending the celebration of the liberation of Vietnam, a friendly neighbor, so they all wore neat clothes. The beautiful men and women came to the meeting without taking off their "May 1" festival costumes, especially the pretty skirts of the girls. It becomes a floating landscape outside the venue.The Vietnamese guests and friends who came here were dressed in gorgeous national costumes, which were charming.The female guests with a little makeup showed the charm of Southeast Asian beauties.The host and the guests were all smiling and beaming. Although the language was different, the topic was the same, and they all expressed the joy of the liberation of Vietnam.

After all the people participating in the rally entered the great hall, the comrades on duty also felt a lot more relaxed.While relaxing, I am also sincerely happy for the liberation of the whole of Vietnam, and I am full of emotions in my heart. Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other Chinese party and government leaders have always given enormous and selfless assistance to the Vietnamese people in their war of resistance against the United States and national salvation. In the late 1960s, in order to help Vietnam fight against the American invaders, China successively dispatched 320,000 troops into North Vietnam, and almost undertook all the transportation, supply and support work in the Vietnam War.In eight years, Chinese soldiers injured more than 4,200 people and killed more than 1,100 people.In the 1970s, China not only continued to provide Vietnam with strong support for military supplies, but also gave great political help.Whenever Le Duan, Pham Van Dong, Vo Nguyen Giap and other Vietnamese party, government, and military delegations visited, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou received them grandly.What I saw and heard in the security work in the past few years, I deeply feel that the focus of China's diplomatic work at that time was to support the Vietnamese people's struggle against the United States morally and materially.Putting aid to Vietnam at the top of foreign aid work, the total economic and military aid to Vietnam accounted for nearly half of China's foreign aid, and foreign exchange and food accounted for the first place in our foreign aid.After ten years of war, the heroic Vietnamese people with the unyielding spirit of resisting the French and Japanese finally defeated the American invaders and liberated all the land that was only 50 kilometers from east to west and 1,600 kilometers long from north to south. A country that will be divided by the United States will be reunified.During the war, although hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese died heroically, nearly 60,000 American invaders also lost their lives.The victory in the Vietnam War also proved the correctness and philosophical rationale of Chairman Mao's words that "a small country can defeat a big country, and a weak country can defeat a strong country".Looking at everything in front of me, I fell in love with the scene. If I was not standing guard, I was young and innocent at that time, and I would really cheer for the victory of the Vietnamese people.

The flow of people talking and laughing slowly descended along the steps of the east gate of the Great Hall. I knew the meeting was over, so I hurriedly withdrew my thoughts and watched the participants get into their cars and drive away smoothly. We finished this effortlessly and happily. temporary task.