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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011  ""The front must carry out its work in a very flexible manner in order to rally all forces that can be rallied, win over all forces that can be won over, neutralize all forces that should be neutralized, and drawn the broad masses into the general struggle against the US-Diem clique for the liberation of the South and the peaceful reunification of the fatherland.

"The revolutionary movement in the South plays a very important role in relation to the reunification of the country. Simultaneously with the effort to build the North and advance toward socialism our people must strive to maintain and develop the revolutionary forces in the South and create f'avorable conditions for peaceful national reunif'ication .... " 203/"

Ho Chi Minh, in his speech at the Congress, attributed the "victory of the Vietnamese revolution" in part to the "whole-hearted assistance of the fraternal socialist countries, especially the Soviet Union and China." He identified the DRV with the world "forces of peace" and stated that "the Democratic Republic of' Vietnam is a member of the big socialist family headed by the great Soviet Union." 404/ Giap's speech at the Congress clted the example of' the August, 195, general uprisings, noting that victory came because "our party kept a firm hold on the national democratic revolutionary line," and paid appropriate attention to preparing the people for their tasks. Le Duan's address stressed that: ""The southern people's revolutionary struggle will be long, drawn out, and arduous. It is not a simple process but a complicated one, combining many varied forms of struggle -- from elementary to advanced, legal and illegal -- and based on the building, consolidation and development of the revolutionary force of the masses. In this process, we must constantly intensify our solidarity and the organization and education of' the people of the South ... and must uphold the revolutionary fighting spirit of all strata of patriotic compatriots." 205/"

Le Duan also called for a "worker-peasant-army coalition bloc," and a "broad national united front against the US-Diem clique." {{quote|In a policy-cycle similar to that of 1957 -- strategy announced around September, followed by international exposure and confirmation at Moscow in November -- the DRV obtained at the "Conference of' Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parti.es" held in Moscow in November, 1960, fairly explicit endorsement of its line of action in South Vietnam. As in 1957, the Moscow Declaration distinguished between war in general and anti-colonial wars, noting that "national-liberation revolutions have triumphed in vast areas of the world" and emphasized that: {{rh|left=|center=67|right= TOP SECRET – Sensitive }}