Wake up（163）

 

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Pan Guangfu told Chai Jianmin, He Jiafu and Li Tiandao about the events before the Cultural Revolution.

After the Lushan Conference in the summer of 1959, Mao Zedong continued to experiment with the evil results caused by the "three red flags" all the way, and it came to an end at the Seven Thousand People Conference in early 1962. The meeting of 7,000 people was held against the background that 20 million people starved to death across the country, the output of major products such as steel, grain, cotton, and coal, and various indicators of the national economy dropped sharply. The original intention of the Congress was to address the looming problem of famine. Such a central working conference, which extended the participants to county party committee secretaries and party secretaries of important factories and mines, must not only solve the problems of "decentralization" and "standardism" under the central government. Reflecting on the evil consequences caused by the "Three Red Flags", it must resolve the issue of who bears the responsibility for these serious evil consequences. At the same time, it must come up with a complete thinking and method to get rid of the predicament and seek development.

Liu Shaoqi told Soviet Ambassador Chervonenko in early 1961 that during the "Great Leap Forward" a total of 30 million people in China died abnormally. It's actually more than that. According to calculations by experts based on the demographic data of the past dynasties in China, there were about 38 million people who died abnormally at that time, and most of them died of starvation and exhaustion. Liu Shaoqi once said to Mao Zedong: "People can eat each other, and those who want to write a letter, one day, the great people of history must bear the most severe evaluation given by history and future generations."

Deng Xiaoping also said at a Central Work Conference in 1961: "In the past three years... natural disasters are not the main ones, man-made disasters are the main ones." People's communes, one-sided emphasis on 'one big and two public', eating from the same pot will bring catastrophe."

Yang Shangkun said in 1964: "On February 10, the central government decided that I would be the leader of the census leading group, with Zhou Rongxin and Xu Zirong as deputy leaders. At that time, the census was conducted without modern means, and the census items were relatively simple. The household registration management force of the public security department carried out. After several months of intensive work, the population data on July 1, 1964 was obtained: the population of the whole country (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) was 694.58 million people, which was higher than the first population census The population at that time was 601.93 million, an increase of nearly 100 million. However, the census found that the national population at the end of 1960 was 662.07 million, about 10 million fewer than at the end of 1959, with a natural growth rate of -4.57‰, of which the natural growth rate below the county level It was -9.23‰. This is the first negative population growth since the founding of New China. Although the statistical methods were backward at that time and the statistical data could not be very accurate, it generally reflected the abnormal situation in some rural areas at that time due to various reasons. The death phenomenon is a situation worthy of attention. After the census data were collected, we reported to Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong smiled and said, I never believe your statistics."

Wan Li, former vice chairman of the National People's Congress, said on April 30, 1998: "The three-year difficult period after the People's Commune was established, edema and starvation were everywhere. It is known that the number of so-called abnormal deaths in Anhui Province alone was three to four hundred. Ten thousand. Freezing three feet is not a one-day cold, so many years of "leftism" in the past have almost wiped out the enthusiasm of farmers."

In the summer of 1960, Li Xiannian went to Guangshan County for an inspection. The car was blocked by hungry people all over the road and could not move.

Former Vice Premier of the State Council and Bo Yibo, who has been in charge of economic work for a long time, talked about the "Xinyang Incident" during the Great Famine in his "Review of Several Major Decisions and Events". Bo Yibo said: "According to the summary of relevant central departments, by the beginning of April 1959, only 15 provinces including Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Hunan, Gansu, Guizhou, and Hebei had a population of 25.17 million without food." . "The "Three Difficult Period" experienced by our people from 1959 to 1961 was mainly caused by the "Great Leap Forward" People's Commune Movement and the "Anti-Rightist" struggle. Bad, edema disease is quite common, many rural areas have increased deaths due to starvation, according to statistics, the total population of the country decreased by more than 10 million in 1960. As a communist, I really feel ashamed of the common people when this kind of thing happened during the period of peace and construction. Never forget this painful lesson."

Tian Jiyun, former vice premier of the State Council and vice chairman of the National People's Congress, said in the article "Reviewing the Reform Course of China's Rural Areas": "Looking back at the three-year difficult period, there was swelling everywhere, people died of starvation, and the number of abnormal deaths reached tens of millions, which is higher than that of the entire democratic revolution. More people died during that time. What is the reason? Liu Shaoqi said that "three parts are natural disasters and seven parts are man-made disasters." Now, it is basically a man-made disaster. opportunism'."

But Mao Zedong completely disagreed with these statements of the central leadership. In 1961, when Mao Zedong received visiting French Socialist Party leader and later French President François Mitterrand, he said in response to rumors of a famine in China in the Western world, "I repeat, there is no famine in China."

Lao Mao was obviously lying. But many Westerners believed Mao's words.