 Giáp was recalled to Hanoi where he was replaced as field commander of the PAVN and from then on watched subsequent events from the sidelines, with the glory of victory in 1975 going to the chief of the general staff, General Văn Tiến Dũng.Giáp's role in the 1975 victory is largely ignored by official Vietnamese accounts.Soon after the fall of Saigon, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was established.