are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in

1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a

right to live, to be happy and free.

The Declaration of the French Revolution made in 1791 on the Rights of Man and the citizen also states: “All

men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights.”

These are undeniable truths.

Nevertheless, for more than eighty years, the French imperialists, abusing the standard of Liberty, Equality,

and Fraternity, have violated our Fatherland and oppressed our fellow citizens. They have acted contrary to the

ideals of humanity and justice.

In the field of politics, they have deprived our people of every democratic liberty.

They have enforced inhuman laws; they have set up three distinct political regimes in the North, the Center,

and the South of Viet-Nam in order to wreck our national unity and prevent our people from being united.

They have built more prisons than schools. They have mercilessly slain our patriots; they have drowned our

uprisings in rivers of blood.

They have fettered public opinion; they have practiced obscurantism against our people.

To weaken our race they have forced us to use opium and alcohol.

In the field of economics, they have fleeced us to the backbone, impoverished our people and devastated our

land.

They have robbed us of our rice fields, our mines, our forests, and our raw materials. They have monopolized

the issuing of bank notes and the export trade.

They have invented numerous unjustifiable taxes and reduced our people, especially our peasantry, to a state of

extreme poverty.

They have hampered the prospering of our national bourgeoisie; they have mercilessly exploited our workers.

In the autumn of 1940, when the Japanese fascists violated Indochina’s territory to establish new bases in their

fight against the Allies, the French imperialists went down on their bended knees and handed over our country

to them.

Thus, from that date, our people were subjected to the double yoke of the French and the Japanese. Their

sufferings and miseries increased. The result was that, from the end of last year to the beginning of this year,

from Quang Tri Province to the North of Viet-Nam, more than two million of our fellow citizens died from

starvation. On March 9 [1945], the French troops were disarmed by the Japanese. The French colonialists

either fled or surrendered, showing that not only were they incapable of “protecting” us, but that, in the span of

five years, they had twice sold our country to the Japanese.

On several occasions before March 9, the Viet Minh League urged the French to ally themselves with it against

the Japanese. Instead of agreeing to this proposal, the French colonialists so intensified their terrorist activities

against the Viet Minh members, that before fleeing they massacred a great number of our political prisoners

detained at Yen Bay and Cao Bang.

Notwithstanding all this, our fellow citizens have always manifested toward the French a tolerant and humane

attitude. Even after the Japanese Putsch of March, 1945, the Viet Minh League helped many Frenchmen to

cross the frontier, rescued some of them from Japanese jails, and protected French lives and property.

From the autumn of 1940, our country had in fact ceased to be a French colony and had become a Japanese

possession.

After the Japanese had surrendered to the Allies, our whole people rose to regain our national sovereignty and

to found the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam.

The truth is that we have wrested our independence from the Japanese and not from the French.

The French have fled, the Japanese have capitulated, Emperor Bao Dai has abdicated. Our people have broken

the chains which for nearly a century have fettered them and have won independence for the Fatherland. Our

people at the same time have overthrown the monarchic regime that has reigned supreme for dozens of

centuries. In its place has been established the present Democratic Republic.

For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government, representing the whole Vietnamese people,

declare that from now on we break off all relations of a colonial character with France; we repeal all the

international obligations that France has so far subscribed to on behalf of Viet-Nam, and we abolish all the

special rights the French have unlawfully acquired in our Fatherland.

The whole Vietnamese people, animated by a common purpose, are determined to fight to the bitter end

against any attempt by the French colonialists to reconquer their country.

We are convinced that the Allied nations, which at Teheran and San Francisco have acknowledged the

principles of self-determination and equality of nations, will not refuse to acknowledge the independence of

Viet-Nam.

A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have

fought side by side with the Allies against the fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and

independent.

For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam,

solemnly declare to the world that Viet-Nam has the right to be a free and independent country – and in fact it

is so already. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength,

to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safe guard their independence and liberty.

Source: Ho Chi Minh, “Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of

Vietnam”Selected Writings (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1977)

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He felt personally betrayed when the Yanks were called in to fight against a moderate yet popular resistance movement and had to kowtow to the Soviets to gain independence from Marianne colonialism

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Seems he finally turned to the Soviets after all overtures to the Allied powers and international law were rejected

Sad stuff bros justice for Vietnam hang all Gaulloids. This fine Vietnamese man wanted to found America II in Southeast Asia and the trecharous "Allied" powers pilloried him for it

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