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SEVENTY YEARS AGO, on January 30, 1950, the Soviet Union officially established diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, becoming one of the first countries in the world to recognize the newly independent state. The USSR thus demonstrated a high degree of solidarity with the Vietnamese people in their struggle for a just cause. The groundwork for these close ties between the two nations was laid during President Ho Chi Minh's visit to Soviet Russia three decades before that date, in search of ways of freeing Vietnam from the feudal/colonial yoke.
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