Wake up（277）

 

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An elegy can be used as a weeping song, and a distant view can be used as an angelica.

Flowers are flowers, but flowers are not all over the ground. Why should life be hurt once?

The two old professors Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui got out of the taxi and bid farewell to the old driver. I was not in a hurry to go home, but walked slowly in the Golden Bauhinia Square in Wanchai, Hong Kong. The sudden torrential rain has stopped, and the air that has been drenched in rain has become fresh.

Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui looked at the large sculpture of "Bauhinia in Bloom Forever" standing on the square, which is an important landmark for the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The mood of the two did not appear to be very excited. They are still trapped in the nightmare memories of the Cultural Revolution.

Hong Wenxuan told Shen Zhirui that he wondered if a monument to the martyrs of the Cultural Revolution would be erected in China. The Cultural Revolution was the political movement with the most deaths. Our generation will never forget it, and our next generation and the next generation should not forget it either. .

     Shen Zhirui said: As far as the whole country is concerned, the number of abnormal deaths in the "Qing Brigade" exceeded any stage in the Cultural Revolution, and exceeded the sweeping of all monsters and monsters at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. For example, in Baoshan County, Shanghai, more than 70 people died abnormally during the sweep of the demons and ghosts, while the number of abnormal deaths in the county-wide cleaning team reached 334. The number of unnatural deaths also exceeded that of the armed forces during the Cultural Revolution. For example, in Qingpu County, Shanghai, small-scale fighting began in the second half of 1967, and lasted intermittently for a year. A total of 20 people were killed and about 100 were injured. However, after the establishment of the County Revolutionary Committee in March 1968, the "Leading Groups for Cleaning Up Class Teams" at all levels began to be established in April, and 170 people were "targeted for cleaning up teams" who were beaten to death or committed suicide. Another example is Shanghai County, excluding the three towns of Longhua, Caohejing, and Beixinjing that were drawn up in 1984. During the Cultural Revolution, 442 people died abnormally, and 70% of them died in the "Qing team": more than 5,600 people were censored and arrested. Dou, 385 people died abnormally. Another example is Hai'an County, Jiangsu Province. A total of 470 cadres and masses were persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution, most of which were caused by the "clearance team".

Shen Zhirui sighed: I don't know how many Shanghai and Jiangsu people will remember these numbers. In the "Qing team", tens of thousands of people were beaten to death. Many people were beaten to death during the "cleaning up" and "censorship". For example, in Wuming County, Guangxi, on February 21, 1968, five people from the "Four Two Two" faction of Lingma Commune snatched guns and ammunition from two militiamen, and handed them over to the commune's armed forces department in March after being advised. However, after the incident, the County Armed Forces Department designated it as a "counter-revolutionary seizure of guns", detained and examined 50 people, and beat 9 people to death. On May 28, the County Revolutionary Committee and the People's Armed Forces Department mobilized 460 militiamen to surround the "213 Corps" of the "April 22" faction of the Qingle Brigade, accusing them of engaging in "counter-revolutionary riots" and killing 3 people. He also severely beat those who participated in the activities of the corps, killing 30 people alive. Have the armed forces and militiamen of those years regretted it? Have they been punished?

Hong Wenxuan told Shen Zhirui that in fact, as far as the whole country is concerned, there were far more suicides than those who were beaten to death during the "clearing team". Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to commit suicide in the "clearing team". For example, in Shehong County, Sichuan Province, the phenomenon of hanging black cards, wearing white coats, shutting down cowsheds, deducting wages, beating and cursing among the "cleaning teams" was common... 73 people committed suicide successively. For example, in Changhai County, Liaoning Province, with a population of just over 60,000, 109 people died abnormally during the "clearing team". Five of them were tortured to death, and most of the rest were forced to commit suicide. Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province cleared out 10,414 "class enemies and residues." 50 people committed suicide and 7 people fled. In the Baoshan County of Shanghai you mentioned, among the 334 people who died abnormally in the "clearing team", 220 people died of suicide. In addition, 12 people fled but did not return and their whereabouts are unknown. They must have committed suicide too.

      Hong Wenxuan said angrily:

"Cleaning up the ranks of the class" is not just announcing that someone is "digged out" to belong to a certain "element" and that a critical struggle meeting is held and that's it. During the "cleaning up" process, almost all the tortures that human beings in China and abroad can think of in ancient and modern times were carried out in all parts of the country at the same time. A large number of innocent people died of torture or suicide.

In more than 2,000 counties across the country, more than 100 people generally died in the "Qing team". For example, in Cheng'an County, Hebei Province, 125 people died in the "Qing team", and another 88 people were disabled.

After the establishment of the Revolutionary Committee headed by the original county party committee chief of armed forces in Tai'an County, Liaoning Province, according to the unified deployment of the whole country... to clean up the class ranks". All units in urban and rural areas "private courts with fascist methods, torture... rubber whips, door bows, Wooden sticks, stove hooks, and various instruments of torture are used alternately, such as air jets, thin wires strung around the neck to hang blackboards, lifting bricks, kneeling bowl slag, everything that one expects to find. The whole county is in terror. A total of 1,288 "class enemies" of various kinds were newly dug up, causing 135 deaths and many maiming. 43 people were jailed and sentenced. Have the people of Tai'an County, Liaoning forgotten these things?

In more than 2,000 counties across the country, more than 100 people died in the "Qing Squad". For example, in Huairou County, Beijing, 11,148 people were registered, 2,362 were raped, and 110 people died abnormally. In Zhenxiong County, Yunnan Province, the Provincial Revolutionary Committee sent a task force to "guidance" the movement, resulting in 107 unnatural deaths. Mile County "launched a fierce attack on class enemies" and illegally hanged and beat them during the criticism. Hundreds of people in the county were disabled and died. Do Beijingers and Yunnanese still remember these things?

Another example is Bin County, Heilongjiang Province, where 925 elements of various types were arrested and 143 people were killed, accounting for 15.45% of those arrested. 32 people were disabled. The number of deaths in the "clearing team" in small counties with a small population was less than 100. Aihui County on the Sino-Soviet border, with a population of only tens of thousands, detained more than 1,500 people and caused 65 unnatural deaths. In Wangkui County, 1,883 people were unjustly, falsely or wrongly convicted, and 55 people died of abnormal conditions. In Ganquan County, Shaanxi Province, with a population of 32,500, 55 "class enemies" were cleared, and 8 of them committed suicide.

If we look at districts and townships (communes) as units, the death toll is in the tens. For example, in Dailing District, Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, 13 "counter-revolutionary groups" were "dug out" and 20 people were killed. In the Xinsi People's Commune of Fengxian County, Shanghai, 91 people were criticized, 48 people were criticized, and 11 people were punished to death. In Changping Commune, Fusui County, Guangxi, "23 people died abnormally" during the "clearing team." Two communes, Gubei and Qilinwan, Jinzhai County, Anhui, used more than ten kinds of punishments to coerce, confess, and believe, killing more than 30 people .

If the unit is narrowed down to a village (production brigade), there are also figures recorded: the Yanji County Military Control Committee and the Revolutionary Committee of Jilin Province called for "deeply digging underground KMT spies, digging deep for North Korean spies" and "bring out spies from under the stick." 44 people from 110 households in Huatian brigade in the county were fought, killing and injuring 41 people.

Hong Wenxuan said angrily:

In this "team clearing" movement, many counties had more than 200 unnatural deaths. For example, in Songjiang County, Shanghai, 5,063 people were tortured and 236 people died of abnormal conditions. In Chongming County, Shanghai, 456 people died abnormally in the "Qing Squad". In Jinshan County, 291 people were forced to commit suicide, and 6 of them fled. In Wuding County, Yunnan Province, 121 people died abnormally due to torture to extract and induce confessions. In Heping County, Guangdong Province, 243 people died unnaturally, and more than 750 people were injured or disabled due to persecution.

In Yushu County, Jilin Province, more than 1,800 innocent cadres and civilians were killed or injured when the Qing brigade expanded in 1968 alone. In late July of the same year, the Revolutionary Committee of Fusui County, Guangxi sent a working group to various communes to "clean up class ranks", resulting in the unnatural death of more than 500 people and the injury and disability of many others.

Shen Zhirui said angrily:

This is yet another "amplified" political movement. From 1955 to 1956, Mao Zedong's anti-revolutionary campaign produced countless unjust, false, and wrong cases. From 1957 to 1958, Mao Zedong launched the anti-rightist movement, which created more unjust, false and wrong cases. After Mao Zedong's death, the CCP said that it should be done, but it was "expanded". Ten years later, when the "team was cleared", 30 million people were killed, and 500,000 people died. These people in power said that it was "expanded".

The difference is that the "expansion" of "elimination of counter-revolutionaries" and "anti-rightists" is the conclusion drawn by Mao Zedong's successors after his death. As for the "expansion" of the "Qing team", Mao Zedong had to admit it at that time.

The "Insider Party," the "Fifty Orphans Petitioning Group," the "100 Widows Petitioning Group," and the "Army Cadres' Families Appealing Injustice Group" all went to the official office of Teng Haiqing, commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, to call for help. Zhou Enlai's niece Zhou Bingjian wrote to him, reporting the situation of the "insider party" in Inner Mongolia, and Zhou Enlai took measures to stop this movement. Mao Zedong said: "During the campaign to clean up the 'inner party', Inner Mongolia has expanded." However, Mao Zedong did not apologize to the people of Inner Mongolia, and only transferred Teng Haiqing, who committed heinous crimes, to the Jinan Military Region as the deputy commander.

At the "Ninth National Congress" of the Communist Party of China in April 1969, Mao Zedong said lightly: "Cleaning up the ranks of the class... some places are doing better, and some places are not doing well. It is not accurate, and it is enlarged. Some people were arrested. Those who should not be arrested have also been arrested. The masses have risen, and more people have been arrested. This is also understandable. Because the central government organized the cleanup of the class team, and it stipulated that it should be carried out. Once it was carried out, it expanded. There's a lot of that."

Shen Zhirui scolded angrily: In my opinion, the two years of "cleaning up the class ranks" in 1968 and 1969 were a large-scale persecution of tens of millions of people, and the culprit was Mao Zedong.

Two old professors stand at the Golden Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai, Hong Kong after the rain. The night blurred the large sculpture of "Bauhinia in Bloom Forever" standing on the square, and the darkness of night enveloped the world and the secular world. The beliefs of the past have become hazy, and the ideals of the past have also disappeared.