Message of greeting

to

CP Vietnam

Central Committee

HO CHI MINH, born May 18, 1890

The habitable earth is a sphere but it is only since recently that mankind is aware of this reality and acts accordingly. Those who where the first to pronounce the simple truth were burnt to death for doing so. Five hundred years later mankind starts to understand, although slowly and fighting against powerful opposing forces, that there is more to recognize than the simple truth that earth is a sphere. There are some more simple issues to be understood if we want to make earth a place where to live in a reasonable way. In this century now ending the lessons for the people bear the names of their victories. Many of them are bearing the names of victories of the Vietnamese people: Dien Bien Phu, for example, or Saigon, April 24, 1975. The teachers are men like Ho Chi Minh. They teach us to see and recognize the obvious, the simple that is hard to achieve:

»No matter what difficulties and hardships lie ahead, our people are sure of total victory. The U.S. imperialists will certainly have to quit. Our Fatherland will certainly be reunified. Our fellowcountrymen in the South and in the North will certainly be reunited under the same roof. We, a small nation, will have earned the signal honour of defeating, through heroic struggle, two big imperialists – the French and the American – and of making a worthy contribution to the world national-liberation movement.«

The Vietnamese people is in the happy situation to have victories serving as lectures:

»Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be;

The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.«

We, by contrast, have to learn from our defeats. After the annexation of the DDR the German imperialism is dragging Europe towards another World War. It is uncertain whether Europe will be left still habitable if we are unable to prevent him from doing so.

Comrades and brothers: The best of luck for you and for us, let us follow Ho Chi Minhs way!

29.April 2000
Exekutivkomitee
Arbeiterbund für den Wiederaufbau der KPD