To the 50th anniversary of the Paris agreement on Vietnam

50 years ago, on January 27, 1973, «Agreement to end the war and restore peace in Vietnam» was signed in Paris. The article shows the vicissitudes of these negotiations, which lasted almost 5 years as a result of the fact that the United States stubbornly tried to force the DRV and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam to accept the American terms of the future agreement.

The author analyzes the main reasons for the successful completion of lengthy negotiations and signing аn agreement that meets the fundamental interests of the Vietnamese people. Among them, he names the decisive role of the political and diplomatic efforts of the Soviet Union and in this connection, expresses regret that in recent years these efforts have been assessed somewhat differently in Vietnamese historiography. The author analyzes a number of the most characteristic publications of Vietnamese scientists, which frankly downplay the role of the Soviet Union in the successful completion of the Paris talks, and in this regard, suggests that these “fresh approaches@ may be dictated by the new strategic interests of Hanoi.