50th Anniversary of April 30 Viet Nam Victory for Sovereign Peace by Courage:

Opportunity for US Public to Join in that Truth, & End US Leaders’ False Claims

Brian D. Roesch in Viet Nam, Voter Knowledge Press, short bio

For the April 30, 2025 50^th anniversary celebration of Viet Nam’s 1975 victory in its fight for independence against America, daily preparations and early events are underway. A saying is: “We do not embellish the past, but we also do not smear history.” (linked video, 6:43–6:50) In that statement, Viet Nam now gains strong support from long-silent documents in the US. These papers show—to a misled US public—that the real reason for the war was that US leaders attacked to continue a hidden period of 1865–1954 US business in Viet Nam, enabled by violence.

In Viet Nam, the main April 30 parade will have over 13,000 participants. Most are members of the armed forces. Celebrations include paying respects at the Ho Chi Minh City Martyrs' Cemetery, a series of cultural events in Ha Noi, scientific seminars, thematic exhibitions, and live TV broadcasts of cultural, artistic and sports events.

This week, many people, young and old, are showing that they believe in their victory and in their 2,300-year tradition of defeating all invaders. A Bac Lieu TV commentator describes: “in the eyes of international friends”:

Vietnam wants to affirm that although history has had conflicts, currently we have the courage to keep peace. Soft but not retreat. Open heart but not retreat . . . In the ceremony on April 30, the whole world understands that this is a nation that can be gentle in words but firm in every principle of sovereignty. . . .

Viet Nam’s Event Provides an Inspiring Overture to the US Public,

to Join in that World-Leading Truth from the War, Aided by Newly Found Papers

In the US, recently-surfaced documents, plus other facts, disprove two longstanding false claims by US leaders of a noble purpose in the war. The two false claims are: (1) that the US entered Viet Nam in 1954, with a noble intent to fight communism; and (2) that a nation called North Viet Nam existed, which the US supposedly fought.

Reposing in the U.S. National Archives, long-silent documents disprove the first false claim. They show that US businesses operated in Viet Nam during 1865–1954, enabled by French invasion brutality. This is proven by regular reports sent by US State Department consuls in Viet Nam from 1889 onward. So, it is clear that the US did not enter in 1954. Moreover, documents show that US leaders attacked Viet Nam by 1955, trying to continue that early activity. That was the real reason for the war.

The second false claim was that a country called “North Viet Nam” was threatening. However, no country called “North Viet Nam,” or anything close, ever existed. The 1954 Geneva Accords, in plain words, left Viet Nam as one nation. See especially Articles 1 (Viet Nam, not North Viet Nam); 2 (regrouping zones, not countries); and 14(a)(France—no other nation—to administer south regrouping zone)​. US leaders have never shown any document that created a country called “North Viet Nam.” For, none was ever created, at Geneva or anywhere else.

Instead, in 1954 under its Geneva duty, France began temporarily administering the south regrouping zone (south half of the single nation of Viet Nam). But US leaders applied superpower pressure on France, so, on May 20, 1955, French forces withdrew from Sai Gon to the coast. Thus, US leaders were main actors in breaking the main operative mechanism of the 1954 Accords. Then, US leaders had their proxy, Ngo Dinh Diem, set up, on October 26, 1955, a so-called “South Viet Nam.” Its existence was illegal under the Accords. And, CIA operatives in 1954 said Diem had no mass following. Those and other facts show that the most of the people in the south regrouping zone remained loyal to the real Viet Nam. Indeed, the real Viet Nam nation included the southern area. General Counsel for the Department of Defense, Paul Warnke, later said, “We fought the war for a separate South Vietnam, but there wasn’t any South and there never was one.”

Grappling for truth amid the false claims, a thoughtful Netflix trailer appeared April 17, 2025, titled, Turning Point: The Vietnam War. It says: “The story of the US in Vietnam was a story of ignorance.” It concludes: “We’d lost our moral compass. And we haven’t recovered. We can’t forget Viet Nam. It’s with us today.”

The war is still with us for important reasons. High among the reasons, it is important on this major anniversary that the US public, now having the facts, can discard the US leaders’ false claims and can join Viet Nam in saying, “We do not embellish the past, but we also do not smear history.”