Identifying the plots and tricks of hostile forces to sabotage the Vietnamese revolution

In recent times, hostile forces have increasingly sought to infiltrate, influence, and "transform" Vietnam into following their "orbit", with the immediate aim of undermining the Party's ideological foundation, while simultaneously activating a "color revolution" through the "civil society" network to change Vietnam's political system. Their ultimate goal is to eliminate the leadership role of the Communist Party and the political system in Vietnam. In this sinister strategy, they use the following five main plots and tricks:

Firstly, the plot and trick to deny the arguments of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought. Currently, unlike the sabotage through smuggled books, newspapers, magazines and leaflets as before, hostile forces spread bad and toxic information, taking advantage of the spread of the internet to report news in a concise form, stimulating doubts or completely denying the values ​​of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought. In order to gather and develop forces, hostile forces and reactionary elements often focus on connecting and attracting all social classes, especially young people, cadres and party members who show signs of "spontaneous evolution", "self-transformation" and recently they tend to connect with people with criminal records, drug addicts, cyber gangsters... to spread "Western lifestyle", attack and distort the path to socialism in Vietnam.

Hostile forces use the internet to post articles and information against the Vietnamese revolution. Screenshot

Second is the plot and trick of distorting and denying the Party's viewpoints, policies and guidelines, and the State's laws and policies. Hostile forces, reactionary and opposing elements have taken full advantage of all forms and means of communication such as social networks, leaflets, banners, slogans, etc. to propagate and attract disgruntled subjects and elements in the area to participate in reactionary associations, groups and organizations such as "Association of Injustice Victims", "Association of Prisoners of Conscience", "Association of Independent Writers", "Association of Independent Vietnamese Journalists", "Bloc 8406"..., at the same time inciting ignorant people to participate in causing trouble, disrupting order and opposing the government; from there, they continue to film and distribute on social networks "reporting" to reactionary organizations abroad to earn money to sponsor these activities, while distorting the truth and causing misunderstandings about the events taking place in our province and country.

They exploit and take advantage of political events and sensitive issues to launch propaganda campaigns against Vietnam, to spread the legislative model and Western bourgeois democracy... The actions of these subjects are part of the activities serving the "illusion" of overthrowing the People's government and eliminating the leadership role of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Third is the trick of denying the historical value of the nation and its people.revolutionary achievementsThey take advantage of some limited issues to completely deny the values ​​and the extremely great achievements that our Party and People have strived to achieve in 35 years of implementing the renovation process. To carry out that plot, reactionary organizations such as "Viet Tan", "Provisional National Government of Vietnam", "Committee for Rescue of People Crossing the Sea"... continue to search, connect, and entice citizens in Nghe An and some localities to join reactionary organizations and carry out sabotage activities abroad (from 2016 to now, 80 related cases have been discovered).

They also connect and link with opposition groups in the "Vietnamese Community", organize and through "discussion" programs, meet and contact Vietnamese workers and students in other countries to propagate, attract and develop forces; send some domestic subjects to other countries to organize training and education. Reactionary and opposition subjects, supported by extremist religious dignitaries, have repeatedly organized "seminars", "meetings", and training sessions on "democracy", "human rights", organized "communion prayers", and hung banners and slogans with bad political content in places of worship to film and distribute on cyberspace to reactionary organizations in exile.

From 2010 to now, reactionary elements inside and outside the country have established 5 new disguised groups, conducted more than 80 gatherings, meetings, associations, and rallies with more than 300 participants to publicize opposition political organizations right in the area.

Scene of the appeal trial of Nguyen Nang Tinh for the crime of "Making, storing, disseminating or propagating information and documents aimed at opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam", April 20, 2020. Photo: PV

The fourth isconspiracy, trick to distort political events, complex and sensitive cases to incitecausing political and social instability. In addition to reactionary elements, opportunistic and ignorant elements have also unintentionally or intentionally "assisted" anti-government activities by spreading false information on social networks at sensitive times, causing confusion in public opinion, such as: spreading news about the collapse of the Ban Ve Hydropower Dam in 2018, spreading false information about child kidnapping in rural areas, about the Covid-19 epidemic...

Even issues related to compensation for site clearance, environmental pollution, anti-corruption, administrative reform, tax collection... are also thoroughly exploited by reactionary elements to reflect under a distorted lens, even with provocative nature, posted on social networks to create misunderstanding among people, and skepticism towards Party committees and authorities at all levels.

Fifth, there are plots and tricks to overthrow idols; defame and slander Party and State leaders through the ages. In this form, hostile forces attack the private lives of leaders and individual leaders; distort the relationships between leaders; distort and twist the decisions of Party and State leaders through the ages to lower their prestige, with the ultimate goal of denying the good and superior nature of our Party and State.

Some reactionary elements in the area such as Ho Duc Hoa, Hoang Duc Binh, Le Dinh Luong, Nguyen Van Oai, Nguyen Nang Tinh and accomplices... have "abused democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and citizens", "made, stored, disseminated or propagated information and documents aimed at opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam",... These subjects have been discovered, prosecuted and tried by the authorities before the law, but some of them, after completing their prison terms, still "returned to their old ways".

Looking at the world, the clearest evidence is that most political upheavals, including major upheavals considered "color revolutions" from the first decade of the 21st century until now, such as in Tunisia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Ukraine, and most recently Hong Kong, Myanmar... are mostly related to toxic information.

Nghia Dung Commune Police (Tan Ky) conduct propaganda work to the people. Photo: Tien Hung

In that situation, cadres and party members must be the ones directly propagating and implementing resolutions, guidelines, policies and strategies of the Party and State to the people. At the same time, each cadre and party member must constantly study, learn, cultivate awareness and political mettle, and improve "resistance" to wrong and deviant thoughts, and not allow themselves to "self-evolve" or "self-transform".

In addition, each cadre and party member must always promote the role of "nuclear" leadership at the grassroots level to contribute to building a strong political system, promptly detecting, fighting, and preventing sabotage elements, bad and toxic information, propagating and spreading official information, socio-economic development results, good people and good deeds, thereby "using beauty to eliminate ugliness", making hostile forces gradually have no "land" to distort and sabotage.