On addressing the meeting, Truong Tan Sang, Politburo member and Permanent Secretary to the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Central Committee, highlighted Lenin’s great contributions to the working class cause, the struggle against imperialism and the struggle for peace, independence and freedom of nations throughout the world.

During Vietnam’s revolution, Lenin’s thoughts opened up new horizons, and gave the Vietnamese people strength in their struggle for national liberation and socialist construction, he said.

While leading the revolution, the Party has creatively applied Lenin’s thoughts to the country’s situation, said Sang, adding that the people under Lenin’s flag and the Party’s leadership successfully carried out the August Revolution and defeated the French colonialists and the US imperialists to unify the country.

Vietnam is now engaged in the process of socialist construction and national defence to turn Vietnam into a strong country with prosperous people and a fair, democratic and civilised society, he stressed.

In the renewal process, the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese people have raised public awareness of Marxism-Leninism and have creatively applied these principles to the country’s revolution, he stated.