The Grand Parade for the 80th Anniversary of Vietnam's Independence is taking place in Ho Chi Minch City, also known as Saigon. This date commemorates the historic day when Ho Chi Minh proclaimed independence from France in 1945. teleSUR
00:00of this event. Let's recall we are seeing the official ceremony, the opening of a massive parade
00:10that is marking the 80th anniversary, the 80 years since the Declaration of Independence in the country.
00:19And let's recall that some 40,000 troops, also civilians, are set to parade at this hour, just a few hours after dawn,
00:32feeling the day when communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh declared a Democratic Republic of Vietnam,
00:42free from French rule in 1945. And there is going to be also military deployment in this context.
00:54And there is also tanks, drones, also missiles, batteries are poised to trail through the streets as helicopters
01:06and planes strike over the heads of avid spectators, thousands who have camped out to secure front seats.
01:16As well, in this event, as the leader was mentioning, there are veterans, elderly people,
01:23children being carried on their parents' shoulders as well. Also, the people will also be present in this commemoration.
01:46There are also thousands of civilians who have been, since very early in the morning, in long queues,
01:53just to enter and have a piece of all this massive parade and this massive symbolic act that is taking place in Hanoi at this hour,
02:08for this event that is going to be a long hour, a two hour parade with the massive deployment of military capacities.
02:19And also, that is going to have, that is having actually international attendees such as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel as well.
02:32The people want to show how grateful as well they are for the sacrifices of the previous generation,
02:43for them to have today the peace and the freedom that they are enjoying at this moment.
02:49We can see thousands of people there with flags, with a national flag red with a yellow star at the very centre of the flag.
03:01And the celebrations are going to be an outscale. It is planned to be a historical one that will break the record 30,000-strong show of force that the one-party state mustered for emancipation celebrations back in 1985.
03:23The celebrations also will focus on Vietnam's independent accomplishments, including its economic transformation into a global manufacturing powerhouse as well.
03:36Hanoi's top leader, Hanoi's top leader, Tho Lam, also is offering its opening speech at this moment and is also before the attendees from China and Russia,
03:50whose troops will march alongside their Vietnamese counterpart.
03:56China's number three official National People's Congress Chairman, Shao Le Ji, is present alongside former Cambodian Prime Minister,
04:07Hoon Seng as well, also Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel as you could see a few moments ago.
04:12This two-hour procession is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of spectators as we can see on our screens at this hour from these live images we are bringing you at this hour from Hanoi, Vietnam.
04:34Ho Chi Minh's 1945 independence proclamation was let's recall that it was not recognized by France which ruled Vietnam as well as neighboring layers and Cambodia as colonial assets priced for the rubber, rice and coffee as well.
04:55Today as Vietnam celebrates the 80th anniversary of August revolution that was marked on August 19th and National Day September 2nd international partners, ambassadors and heads of the international organizations prize its extraordinary transformation over the past eight decades.
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