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Zhou Jianguo and his wife Shi Nianchang told Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin the bloody story of the suppression of 33 counter-revolutionary restoration cliques in Hefei during the Cultural Revolution. He took out a pile of data from his bag and said:

I just collected this information in Hefei. The name of the material is "Memories of Stopping Fighting in Anhui", which comes from "Yesterday" magazine, and the author is Liu Jiaju.

Liu Jiaju, born in 1931, is from Chongqing. He joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army at the end of 1949 and participated in the Korean War. In 1962, he was transferred from the Deputy Captain of the Artillery Training Team to the Propaganda Office of the Political Department of the 12th Army, specializing in the interview, writing, and collation of revolutionary memoirs. He participated in the "Supporting the Left" in Anhui Province in the early days of the Cultural Revolution, and was later transferred to the editorial team of "Liberation Army Literature and Art" Deputy head. Later, he served as the executive editor-in-chief of "Yanhuang Chunqiu" magazine. Liu Jiaju passed away on July 31, 2017. This article originally published in the 94th issue of the cable magazine "Yesterday" was the last article he published after being approved before his death.

The article says:

In the second year of the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong called on the rising rebels to seize power in an all-round way, setting off the "January Storm". On January 22, the "People's Daily" editorial calling on the rebels to seize power said: "The biggest festival for the proletarian revolutionary rebels is coming. It's here! The death knell for all ghosts and monsters is ringing!" "This is a new leap forward in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in our country. This is a great start for the nationwide all-round class struggle this year."

However, the seizure of power led to great splits and melees among the mass organizations. The rebel factions in various places split because of the seizure of power, and turned civil fighting into violent fighting.

At the same time, on January 21, 1967, Mao Zedong instructed Lin Biao on the request report of the Party Committee of the Nanjing Military Region: "The army should be sent to support the broad masses of the leftists", "In the future, any true revolutionaries who ask for the support and assistance of the army should do so. The so-called non-intervention is false, and has already intervened. It seems that this matter should be re-issued, and the previous order is invalid." Immediately, "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, the Central Military Commission, and the Central Cultural Revolution Group on the People's Liberation Army Resolutely Supporting the Revolutionary Left Masses was issued on January 23, and the army fully intervened in the localities to "support the left, support workers, support agriculture, military management, and military training."

The intervention of the army played a role in stabilizing the situation to a certain extent, but at the same time, because of "supporting the left" and "branching", it intensified the contradictions among different factions among the masses and led to new turmoil.

The conflict between the two factions in Anhui began on January 26, 1967, when the rebels seized the power of the Provincial Party Committee. One faction believed that the seizure of power was "very good" and was known as the "good faction." Cheng is "good fart", known as "fart faction", and they are abbreviated as G faction and P faction respectively.

Among the rebel faction, the P faction has a Red Guard composed of demobilized veterans, with great momentum and great influence, and several veteran cadres who have transferred from the army to the local area support them.

Zhou Jianguochang told Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin: The 33 members of the counter-revolutionary restoration group suppressed by the Hefei Revolutionary Committee during the Cultural Revolution should belong to the rebel organization of the P faction. These members seem to have organized a rebel organization called the "Roaring Independent Division" at the beginning, and all members had military experience. However, under the impact of various political movements, these soldiers were successively labeled as rightists or counter-revolutionaries. Local reform-through-labor factories.

On December 3, 1966, Mao Zedong and Lin Biao agreed with the opinions of the Party Committee of the Nanjing Military Region, requiring that "all demobilized and demobilized soldiers are not allowed to form independent organizations in the name of the Red Guards or other names, and should only participate in the Cultural Revolution organizations of their units."

On January 20, 1967, when Zhou Enlai met with representatives of the Anhui rebels, he also emphasized that "the National Federation of Disabled Soldiers Displaced, Demobilized, and Honored is not recognized by us." The Red Guards in Anhui were then identified as an illegal or even reactionary organization. The "Roaring Independent Division" became a "counter-revolutionary restoration group."

On January 25, Yu Deshui, one of the founders of the Red Guards and a veteran cadre of the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, was arrested and died in the detention center of the Provincial Public Security Department shortly thereafter. On March 27, the Nine Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China specifically wrote: "The arrest of Comrade Yu Deshui...was wrong." Qing...relevant personnel involved in the arrest and handling of the Yu Deshui case cannot participate in this investigation team."

  The central government’s decision on resolving the Anhui issue also emphasized: “The revolutionary masses and revolutionary cadres who were arrested because they had different opinions on the ‘January 6th’ seizure of power will be released, and those labeled as ‘counter-revolutionaries’ will be rehabilitated. Strictly prevent bad people from using dictatorship tool to suppress the revolutionary masses and revolutionary cadres.”  …

  The situation in Anhui further became chaotic. The two opposing factions identified themselves as "leftists" and the other as "counter-revolutionaries." battlefield. Dark clouds overwhelmed the city, production stopped, traffic was interrupted...

Zhou Jianguo told Pan Guangfu and Chai Jianmin, this is some information I knew at the time.