Assessing the international significance of the Dien Bien Phu victory, French historian Alain Ruscio said that the event had a great influence on the decolonization movement in the world.

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The panorama painting of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign painted on the 2nd floor of the Dien Bien Phu Victory Museum, is one of the largest works in the world about war.

In 1953, eight years after reinvading Indochina, despite having mobilised huge economic and military resources, the French colonialists failed to achieve their purpose of destroying the revolutionary government and resistance forces to reestablish their rule throughout Indochina. On the contrary, they suffered heavy losses: 390,000 troops.