Joining the movement of national liberation, each revolutionary soldier was always ready with one spirit:
Revolutionary is my life, since I understood
Once we joined, it is incarcerating
It is a sword near the neck, a gun at the ear
As a living body only considered half
Refusing to die in shackles, the communist prisoners organized fights to preserve their forces, maintained their temper and waited for the chance to escape. Knowing that it was possible to die, but their brave hearts were still determined to escape from prison, to join the “waterfall” of revolution, to regain independence and freedom for the nation.
"The desire of freedom" - a burning desire of the Vietnamese people. These are stories from the escapees of revolutionary soldiers in the colonial, imperial prisons.
Freedom is the desire and the motivation of every revolutionary soldier when embarking on the path of national liberation:
Though my body is imprisioned
My spirit is free
He who whishes a cause
Must nurture ahigh spririt.
(Prison Diary, Ho Chi Minh)
Refusing to die in shackles, the communist prisoners organized fights to preserve their forces, maintained their temper and waited for the chance to escape. Knowing that it was possible to die, but their brave hearts were still determined to escape from prison, to join the “waterfall” of revolution, to regain independence and freedom for the nation.
The memories of former prison-breakers in the past are a part of the national history, the pride and the motivation for the young generation to step on the path of developing the country “to be more beautiful and decent” as the wish of President Ho Chi Minh.
On the route of national liberation, Vietnamese people had experienced so much pain and loss. The harsh policies with continuous suppression tools: Courts, Detective Departments, Prisons and the bureaucracy were established in many locals by the colonial and imperial governments made the harsh life of Vietnamese people.
Escape is the highest form of fights, a prisoner may die in a sacred forest or poisonous water; bait for wild animals or submerged in the middle of the ocean. Without letting go, the revolutionary soldiers were determined to organize daring escapes. The "wings longing for freedom" broke the shackles, flought their wings, came back to the light of the revolution.
The resounding victories of the Vietnamese nation in the twentieth century have been credited to many generations of political prisoners who have been imprisoned in "hell on the earth". With immortal faith, the brave people after escaping from prison, continued to devote their strength and intelligence to the fights for independence and to the cause of construction and development of the country.