The exhibition is aimed at introducing the prisons where Vietnamese patriots were detained, praising their undaunted spirit and honouring those who had laid down their lives in the imperial prisons for national independence and freedom.
Addressing the opening ceremony, Deputy Director of Hanoi’s Department of Culture and Information Nguyen Duc Hoa emphasised that the 20th century ended with great victories by Vietnamese people especially by Vietnamese patriots in the colonial and imperial prisons during the resistance wars against French and American invaders.
Their undaunted spirit and sacrifice will forever be glorious in the revolutionary tradition of the Vietnamese nation.
In an interview granted to VOVNews, a 76 year-old ex-prisoner Nguyen Duy Bay said every time he had the chance to return to the Hoa Lo prison where he used to be detained by French colonialists, he had a mix of bitter-sweet feelings. He said he was sad because many of his comrades were badly maltreated and beaten to death in the prison. But he felt lucky that he has seen with his own eyes the country’s drastic changes during peacetime.
“Despite having lived in Hanoi for dozens of years, I was still taken aback by major changes in Hanoi as well as in the countr,“ said Mr Bay. “As always, the Vietnamese people have always brought into play their revolutionary traditions and undaunted spirits in the past resistance wars as well as in the current process of building a strong and prosperous country.”
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