Hanoi, May 6 -- The Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954) was not only a victory of the strength of intelligence and public consensus but also contributed to the end of the resistance war against the French colonialists of the Vietnamese army and people, according to an officer.

Lieutenant General Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hung Oanh, Principal of the Political Officer Training School under the Ministry of National Defence, said that the reality of the Dien Bien Phu campaign showed that the tradition and strength of great national unity, which was upheld and combined with the determination to fight and to win and the desire for peace, truly became an invincible source of spiritual strength transformed into material strength to triumph.

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