Golden Week - Documentary and awareness

Right at the time of national financial difficulties, the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam launched the Golden Week in the framework of the Independence Fund, exhorting the entire people to raise money and wealth to help the country. Golden Week became one of the events that started Vietnam's modern history with feats and meanings that surpass the time. This article reproduces the progress and results of the event based on contemporary media sources, especially the Cuu Quoc newspaper, the Government's daily mouthpiece and propaganda agency. The concrete facts have contributed to restoring the face and stature of the event, correcting perceptions that contain many erroneous information that has been defaults before, through some scientific manipulations of quantification, statistics, matching, etc. The results of the study showed that Golden Week was conducted in two spaces associated with two diffirent time periods, including Hanoi capital from September 16, 1945 to September 30, 1945 and the whole country from September 16, 1945 to January 9, 1946; the activities of Golden Week in Hanoi capital are actually organized in seven different locations, of which there was Bac Bo palace, which gathered dozens of capitalists and landlords with the value of donations up to half of the total value of 7 million Indochina of Golden Week, demonstrating the leading role in the financial support of the rich and patriotic classes at the beginning of the consolidation of national independence.