Wake up（186）

 

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When Lin Huiting communicated with Chai Jianmin, He Jiafu, Li Tiandao and several other old people, he said that the national "military training" implemented during the Cultural Revolution was a new measure of Mao Zedong's attempt to use the army to control the chaotic situation in colleges and universities. Mao Zedong saw the benefits of "military training". In 1967, On February 19, the scope of "military training" was further expanded to include all party, government, military, and civilian institutions across the country, and both middle-aged and young people should undergo military training. The most resounding slogan at that time was "Ready for war!"

Matching "military training" is "military management", that is, "military management of civilians", "civilian management of the army", and "military management of the army". It can be said that "military control" was one of the most absurd things in the "Cultural Revolution".

At first, the central government only ordered the implementation of military control over "vital" departments such as radio stations, food and material warehouses, and prisons, and then expanded it to the civil aviation system. As the situation becomes chaotic day by day, more and more units need to be "managed".

The "power faction" in each unit has been "knocked down", and the "rebel faction" is fighting with each other. Who can take the responsibility of management? Only the troops remained.

Therefore, on March 19, 1967, the Central Military Commission made a "decision on concentrating on the implementation of the tasks of supporting the left, supporting agriculture, supporting labor, military management, and military training."

For the first time, this document proposes the "three branches and two armies" as an overall task to the whole army of the whole country. In the first five months of 1967 alone, the PLA headquarters, various arms and arms, and military regions imposed "military control" on 7,752 units across the country, and implemented guard protection on 2,145 units, including central ministries and commissions, 1,219 Banks (accounting for 42% of national banks), 547 radio stations (accounting for 24% of national radio stations), 111 newspaper offices (accounting for 53% of national newspaper offices), 10 railway bureaus (a total of 18 railway bureaus nationwide). This shows how strong the "military control" is.

At that time, not only was the army exercising military control over local units, but the army also began to "military control" certain military units. For example, Mao Zedong sent people to "military control" the General Political Department. Later, some researchers pointed out: "Ordering the relevant personnel of the subordinate units of the army to impose military control on one of the three major headquarters of the army and the highest political authority of the army is indeed a very 'funny' thing that does not conform to common sense. And who would dare to issue such an order except Mao Zedong himself, who claimed to be the 'builder' of this army?" Li Desheng also admitted that this was "an absurd farce."

What's even more ridiculous is that on September 2, 1968, in accordance with Mao Zedong's instructions, the Central Military Commission and the "Central Cultural Revolution Group" issued a "Notice on the Implementation of Military Control for Workers Entering Military Academies and Military Academies that have not yet been united." Such an absurd order to let workers "military control" military academies may be unheard of in the whole world.

Article 5 of this document stipulates: "The six colleges and universities in the Beijing area, including the higher military academies, the Political Science Academy, the Air Force Academy, the Logistics Academy, the Third Engineering Corps School, and the Air Force Second Advanced College, are responsible for the Mao Zedong Thought run by the Central Committee. The training task of the study class. After the training task of these six colleges is over for a period of time, the Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team composed of workers and the People’s Liberation Army will be stationed.”

Lin Huiting said with a smile: As far as I know, at this time, the Air Force Academy has taken on the task of "military management" of the Beijing Institute of Geology, but it is about to be "military management" by workers.

Obviously, at that time Mao Zedong fully mobilized the army and regarded the army as the last resort to control the chaotic situation of the "Cultural Revolution", which was really a hasty move to deal with the urgent need. After the military has fully intervened in local affairs, the situation in some places has stabilized, but in some places it has become even more chaotic due to the military's intervention. What makes Lao Mao even more fearful is that the "leftist support" and "military control" of the army have caused the military to account for the majority of the heads of the "revolutionary committees" of local governments at all levels, forming a situation where the army is fully in power and inflated. Shi Lao Mao had no choice.

It was not until August 1972 that the personnel of the "Supporting the Left" began to withdraw one after another, and the farce of the "Three Branches and Two Armies" came to an end.