Wake up（61）

 

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Chai Jianhua returned to the house to avoid the scorching sun, but he still couldn't calm down. He put the booklet "Life Catastrophe" on the bedside, trying to take a nap, but couldn't close his eyes. Remembrances of the Great Leap Forward still plague his memory.

On November 21, 1958, Lao Mao told the top leaders of the CCP: In addition to large-scale water conservancy projects, the Great Leap Forward also had various tasks such as large-scale iron and steel smelting. "In my opinion, half of China's population must die, and if half die, one-third or one-tenth will die, so 50 million people will die." There should be a celebration", "Death is good, it can be used as fertilizer". Gu Zhun, the economist who first put forward and applied the market economy theory after liberation, was hailed as the "only thinker in the Mao era" Gu Zhun. He even believed that the launch of the Great Leap Forward was a premeditated population extinction. In the diary of the suffering in the countryside, he wrote: "Forced labor, chronic hunger and death are indispensable products of the Great Leap Forward..."

Zheng Jingye, a researcher on the Zhengzhou Great Famine, provided the author with a series of materials on the Great Famine that he had collected and sorted out (there are several references in this paper), including a document written by the County Party Committee’s Rectification Office in January 1961 in the Henan Shangcheng County Archives. 45 Cases of Torturing Farmers——Peng Qimin, Security Director of Sanjiaodong Brigade of Zhongpu Commune, claimed that members Chen Zugeng and Xu Zhengzhou killed cattle and ate them, took them to the brigade headquarters, stripped them naked, tied them up, and burned them alive Died; Cai Wenqing, the squadron leader of the Fengzhai Brigade of Shangshiqiao Commune, took Cai Deyu, a member of the commune who slaughtered pigs because he had no food, to the brigade, and beat his forehead with a hoe until his head was broken and bleeding; he died on the spot; Ruijiang ordered member Lei Xiansheng to be stripped of his clothes, lifted up and thrown, and his ears clipped off with fire scissors. The blood flowed out, and he died of serious injuries; a pregnant woman in the Sigudun Brigade of Hedian Commune cursed at Luoyue because she had no food. Ruan Yong'an, branch secretary of the Sanjiaohe Brigade of Zhongpu Commune, hooked the 15-year-old son of farm laborer Yu Pei× with a weighing hook into his mouth and out of his nostrils, and died on the spot; Shangshiqiao Commune A commune member surnamed Pan was tied up with his two thumbs by Liu Bingrong, secretary of the brigade, and hung up for a day and a night. He was beaten to death with a sling; He fell to his death; Xu Rongpin, secretary of the Sanjiaodong Brigade of Zhongpu Commune, dragged member Xie Changyu to the toilet and forced him to eat a pile of feces. Xie Yu died the next day; He was carried on a pole and ran away to death; Liu Yimin, head of the security department of the Leichong Brigade of Yuji Commune, pierced the ears of the commune member Hua and three others with a large needle, tied them together with twine to the tail of a cow, and let the cow shake and torture him on the spot. One person was killed; the captain of the squadron of Shangshiqiao Commune

Cheng Liang stripped off the clothes of Yue Deyu, a member of the commune, and tied them up, and pushed him outside to freeze to death in the rain; Zhu Detian, the chairman of the county trade union, stripped off a child who stole an order in the Zhangfan Brigade of Shangshiqiao Commune, and pushed him to freeze in a snow pit. Death; Chen Enjian, deputy captain of the Lianertang Brigade of Fushan Commune, carried Wan Zhongwen, a poor farmer who was suffering from edema, to the mountain, hit his head with a hoe, and buried him; The primary school student was dragged to the mountain to dig a pit and buried alive, but fortunately he was found and rescued; when Shi Daxi, the captain of the Qianwan Brigade of Daquandian Commune, was eating in the cafeteria, Wu Changxian, a 12-year-old primary school student, picked up a few grains of rice by the side of the tank to eat. raise your head

Stuffed in a rice porridge bowl and scalded to death...

In an ordinary county, a series of tragedies of insanity and mutilation of farmers occurred in a short period of time, which shows how cruel, bloody, and tragic China's Great Leap Forward has reached!

In order to hold high the "three red flags", the public security across the country has also launched a great leap forward in killing, shutting down, controlling, and fighting. Beijing proposed to make politics and law and order like glass plates and crystal stones. A police station in Chengdu claimed to solve 10,000 cases a day. Yin Shusheng, the former executive deputy director of the Anhui Provincial Public Security Department, revealed that Anhui arrested more than 8,000 people in 1957. In 1958, the central government issued an arrest target of 45,000 people in Anhui. The province actually arrested more than 100,000 people. times. In 1960, in order to implement the spirit of the Lushan Conference, public security organs across the country arrested rightists and arrested "Little Peng Dehuai". Anhui arrested more than 50,000 people in one fell swoop.

Yin Shusheng said that most of the people who were arrested were innocent people. They complained about the Great Leap Forward, the People’s Commune, the Great Iron and Steel Industry, public canteens, and the communist style, or they wanted to survive and share the food of the production team. Or go out to flee famine and be arrested as "rogue criminals". Nearly a third (31%) of those arrested died tragically in custody.

Especially in violent campaigns against property fraud, there are often police officers and even armed forces. In order to force farmers for food in Xinyang area, more than 21,000 people were formally arrested by the public security organs alone, and more than 800 of them died in custody.

On September 17, 1959, the Zunyi Prefectural Committee held an on-site meeting of "catch ghosts and take grain" (anti-concealment of production and private distribution) in Suiyang Commune, Meitan County. 48 hungry people were caught and detained in a warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative. A skinny man squeezed through a hinged door to escape at night, and the remaining 47 people were all starved to death in the warehouse. Later, in order to cover the cover, the seriously ill and orphans were detained together. In a tobacco curing room, 36 people were locked up to death, and manpower was organized to take the corpses away.

The body was thrown into the pit of the soil. Hundreds of corpses were thrown into the two nearby large fire pits, and some still screamed after being thrown down.

Frank Dikotter, a professor of history at the University of Hong Kong, a Dutch scholar who has published 9 monographs on modern Chinese history, said that he was consulting mainland archives to write "Mao XX's Great Famine" (English title "Mao's Great Famine") When I wrote the book, there were three surprising discoveries—the torture was frequently abused during the Great Leap Forward, including pregnant women and children; many people starved to death not directly but because they were forcibly deprived of the right to eat; all disasters were Unleashed by a horrific ruling system that has led to the moral degradation of the people.

Feng Ke found from the research and analysis of the declassified archives that the high pressure, terror and institutional violence during the Great Leap Forward were ubiquitous, and they literally pushed the people into the desperate situation of death. He estimated that there were no less than 45 million victims of the Great Famine, and 6-8% of them, that is, at least 2-3 million people died of torture or direct execution——At the on-site forced food meeting in Baiqueyuan, Xinxian County, Henan, a brigade The cadres who failed to report the amount of food to be paid were put on the limbs and head by five horses, and the ancient torture of "five horses dismembering the body" was carried out on the spot. When harvesting crops in Guangshan County, many people were accused of stealing wheat grains and were severely beaten. A widow and her children were buried alive; a farmer named Wu Derong said, "Why don't you give the commune members to eat so much food?" and was beaten and beaten for several days. A few nights until the fight to the death. Feng Shouxiang, the production leader of Xiongwan, was hanged from the beam of the canteen of the brigade because he did not give food to the brigade cadres who came here, and he was beaten and his ears were torn off. , resulting in his death on the spot, and the three children starved to death successively. Tu Xrong, production team leader of the Gongfan Brigade of Hedian Commune in Shangcheng County, stripped off a woman's clothes and pants, tied a pine branch into her vagina, sprinkled green ash on it, tied it again, and tortured her to death. A farmer in Hunan was forced to bury his child alive after he stole a handful of grain to eat, and the father who buried the child died of extreme grief.

The country's first people's commune, Suiping County Chaya Mountain Commune Hanlou Brigade, an old man who was so hungry stole and killed a

A sheep was tied up and paraded through the streets and hung on a tree. The old man kept screaming and begging for mercy, and was ignored until he died. Liu Zhilan and Yuan Zhihong, the breeders of the Yuanzhuang brigade, were so hungry that they killed a piglet and were eaten by the production team leader. After finding out, there was a meeting to criticize and beat him to death; Song He, the breeder of Li Yao's brigade, stole a dead sow, and the brigade leader Zhai took him to the brigade, tied him to the brigade, hung him up and beat him, and then paraded through the streets until he fell to the ground and died .

In November 1959, the Huangxidian small cafeteria of the Liyan Brigade of Chengguan Commune in Guangshan County was closed for two months. In order to survive, the whole brigade members agreed to kill a cow in the brigade and share the food. 17 members of the commune who participated in the slaughter of cattle were tied to the head of the brigade, hung up and beaten for a whole day, and 6 of them were beaten to death.

In many places, brutal torture is used to suppress people's lives, weaving a net that ignores people's lives, so that the vast number of hungry people have no escape but death.

In September 1958, Huanjiang County in Guangxi released a "grain satellite" with a rice yield of 130,000 jin per mu (probably the largest high-yield "satellite" in the People's Daily), and in October it released a "steel satellite" with a daily output of 10,000 tons. During the Huanjiang Anti-Rightist and Anti-Concealment Movement, armed grain collection teams ransacked homes with live ammunition, tied people up and hung them on roof beams for torture if they had no food or did not pay. There are various methods of beating people—backhand hanging: hands are tied behind the back and hung on the roof beam; upside-down fuchsia: the big toes of both feet are tied tightly with ropes and hung from the upper room; pig hanging: weighing hooks are inserted into the shoulder blades , hung on a tree; cut flesh piece by piece with a saber, and cut a knife at a question; put a cannon in the ear

If the food is not paid, it will be ignited... The cadres of the grain management office of Huanjiang Longyan Commune caught a 12-year-old elementary school student who was starving and stealing food, and decided to shoot him on the spot to make an example to others. The primary school student begged for his life at gunpoint, and the cry was heartbreaking. Because the gun was old, the bullet was changed three times and the trigger was pulled eight times before it fired. The child was bloody and died. The Beizong Brigade of Jixiang Commune caught a child who stole food, beat him severely and locked him in an airtight warehouse. suffocate.

In addition, according to the investigation of Xiangtan County by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in the spring of 1961 and the four levels of prefectures and counties in Hunan Province, 34,466 ordinary people were beaten in Xiangtan County, 52 were killed on the spot, 549 died after the beating, and more than 400 died of starvation. 125 people committed suicide after beating, 332 people were maimed after beating, 187 women suffered abortion after beating, and 12676 people fled because of beating and food deduction. The place where the red sun rises does not seem to have enjoyed much grace from the emperor, but in 1960, it cost more than 100 million yuan to build the Dishuidong Palace, which still contributed to the GDP of the great man’s hometown. If the money for building the Dishuidong Palace was used to relieve the more than 2 million people who died of starvation in Hunan Province, they would all survive...

The weather is as hot as a steamer, and people are almost turning into steamed stuffed buns. The weather is so hot, as if a little spark will cause an explosion. Chai Jianhua, who wanted to take a nap, lay on the mat, feeling like a beef tenderloin. It was so hot that it was crazy, just like the crazy Great Leap Forward era, which made people feel suffocated.