Moscow, Aug. 21 -- Over the past 80 years since gaining national independence, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has always made the right choices to lead the country through different periods of development, without allowing external interests to override national interests, assessed Professor Andrey Vassoevych, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies under Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. In an interview with Vietnam News Agency correspondents in Russia on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Vietnam's August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2), Vassoevych said the Vietnamese people were very fortunate to have President Ho Chi Minh, a farsighted leader who chose the right time to declare the c...