From the great victory of the Đồng Khởi movement, the demand to gather and unite broader layers of the people of the South in the struggle to end the domination of the American imperialists, overthrow the Saigon puppet government, liberate the South, and unify the country, while implementing the Party's policy, on December 20, 1960, in the liberated area of Tây Ninh, representatives of all classes, nationalities, religions, and parties convened the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Lawyer Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, a well-known patriot in Saigon, was elected as the Chairman of the Front.
The Front chose its emblem: a rectangle, half red, half sky-blue, with a yellow star in the middle.
The flag of the National Liberation Front, the Revolutionary Provisional Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (Liberation Flag), was used from 1960 to 1975. This flag was based on the model of the flag of the Republic of Vietnam, but with half of the red color replaced by blue. The flag featured a yellow star on a red and blue background. The upper half represented the independent North, while the blue half symbolized the South still under the grip of the U.S. and the Saigon regime, but the South struggled for the aspiration for peace and unification (the blue color represents peace).
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