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Author : A. Borodavkin
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation;
ONE CAN ONLY WELCOME the initiative of
the Council of Veterans of the RF Ministry of
Foreign Affairs to publish a collection of reminis-
cences by retired Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary Anatoly Zaitsev of the years he
spent in the diplomatic service in Hanoi (A.S. Za-
itsev, Vspominaya Vietnam [Remembering Viet-
nam], Moscow, RFK-Imidzh Publishers, 2010) by
the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplo-
matic relations between Russia and Vietnam.
Anatoly Zaitsev's book is a kind of diary that marks the main milestones in the rich and
eventful history of friendship and cooperation between our two countries. The episodes and
occasions the author relates are based on actual events he participated in directly and per-
sonally witnessed. They include the peaceful prewar days of the beginning of the 1960s,
when the economy of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was restored and strengthened
by the heroic efforts of the Vietnamese people, along with material and technical assistance
from the Soviet Union; the brutal war years, when the Vietnamese people won the fight
against the aggressors to unite their homeland at the expense of uncountable lives; and post-
war times, when united and prosperous Vietnam has been developing and successfully pro-
gressing at a rapid rate.
In the chapter entitled "The War Through the Eyes of a Young Diplomat," the reader will
find interesting details about the work and everyday life of the employees of our embassy
during the arduous time when the U.S. was bombing North Vietnam and its capital Hanoi.
The chapter "Diplomatic Breakthrough of the T-54 Tank" presents facts about the final
chord in the struggle for recognition of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the
Republic of South Vietnam as the only legal representative of the people of South Vietnam.
The stories and essays gathered in the book are effectively supplemented by rare photographs
kept in the author's family archive that show him with President of the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh, Vice President Ton Duc Thang, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong,
as well as many others he became acquainted with in Vietnam.
Anatoly Zaitsev's new book will undoubtedly be of interest to both Orientalists and the
broad public.
Vietnamese Diary
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Международная жизнь
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