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This blog has been in the draft box for a long time, and I haven’t finished writing it yet, but I think about it today and try my best to get it together. George Orwell once said: Who controls the past controls the future, Who controls the present controls the past.
History is written over and over again, but we can always remember something.
Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and “Animal Farm” will not go into detail, they are already famous enough. This blog mainly talks about what happened in China.
How the Red Sun Rises by Gao Hua
A friend who recommended this book to me said at the time: When most people see a cesspool, they cover their noses and quickly run away; Smelly.
It’s a very vivid metaphor, and because it’s so stinky, I haven’t actually read it.
The most active people on the Internet will always be the group of people who are still studying to graduate but have not married and have children. After starting to raise children, everyone’s energy to give advice on the Internet has plummeted. So every few years I meet a new batch of netizens who sigh, how the party has become like this.
The meaning of “change” shows that everyone thinks that the party was not like this before. As for the node of this change, many netizens think that it is probably after the country has been conquered. But it’s not. The Yan’an rectification movement described in this book, coupled with the earlier “anti-AB group”, “Tomita Incident”, etc., even if you just study the content introduced in Wikipedia, you can understand : The party did not become like this, it has always been like this; or, it has become like this not long after its birth. The so-called original intention may have existed for a short time on the South Lake of Jiaxing.
Snow White Blood Red & Gun Barrel 1949
The author of these two books, Zhang Zhenglong, is a veteran of the People’s Liberation Army. The book was also published by the People’s Liberation Army Press as a military history genre. “Snow White and Red” focuses on the Northeast battlefield during the war. The process of the Hainan Island campaign.
These two books were considered difficult when they were published, but they may have been in a crack in history, and they came out anyway. With the passage of time, Douban has deleted my book reviews slowly, and it is hard to find the books again.
The one with the most impressive impact here is the siege of Changchun. The People’s Liberation Army cut off the power supply in Changchun, the entire city of Changchun stopped at 6:30, the food supply was cut off, and the Kuomintang troops began to dig trees, demolish houses and even dig asphalt for cooking. Everything that flies in the sky, walks on the ground, and anything that can be put into the mouth has become the target of killing. Prices are soaring, and the last few pie can be exchanged for a woman.
Before the Japanese army was defeated, they built a circle road in Changchun. The Kuomintang army was inside the circle, and the People’s Liberation Army was outside the city. The part between the two armies was called “Ka Kong”, and the people of Changchun lived. The Kuomintang army drove the residents of Changchun out, and the PLA blocked people in. In the end, the Kuomintang army had nothing but chaff to eat, so they surrendered (called an uprising at the time). , don’t eat too much at one go and eat people bad.
Five months have passed at this time, and the party’s slogan is “Don’t give the enemy a grain of grain or grass, and trap Jiang Jun in Changchun in the city”, but in the end, those who starved to death were unable to even grab the military rations dropped by air. people. The number of deaths is similar to that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The conservative figure is 200,000. In actual calculations, before the Japanese surrender, 700,000 before the war, 140,000 after deducting the Japanese, and 170,000 after the siege of Changchun… Hiroshima took nine seconds, Changchun It took five months.
Post a paragraph about the original text of the siege of Changchun:
As a result, almost all the articles about this siege were written with the words “soldier without blood”. When the wife of the younger brother of Li Song, the commander of the temporary 52nd division, was sent to the city, and then sent to the separated children, when the family was reunited, The grass-roots people began to break down their homes, and babies were thrown into the streets to cry. When the wives and children of Zhang Weipeng, the deputy director of the 60th Army, and others, were given preferential treatment and sent out of checkpoints, and were taken care of along the way, all living beings without guns and cameras were accompanied by piles of bones. , Kneeling in groups in front of the checkpoint, begging for help.
This is: “Blade without blood”!
Sun Tzu said, “That’s why a hundred victories in a hundred battles are not good ones; those who do not fight and subdue a soldier are good ones.”
He surrendered 100,000 defenders without fighting, and actually called him “the good of the good.” But what about the starving prisoners and bones of the grassy people? Is there a difference between cruelty and humanity between instant slaughter and slow starvation?
Whether flesh and blood are flying, or soldiers are not killed, any form of death is the same for life itself, but also the demise of life, the Tangshan earthquake, the Nanjing Massacre, the siege of Changchun, natural disasters and human slaughter, Is the butcher’s knife of the aggressor the same as the cannibalism of the flesh and blood compatriots?
Yang Xianhui Trilogy
“Jiabiangou Chronicle”, “Dingxi Orphanage Chronicle” and “Gannan Chronicle”.
These books are positioned as non-fiction novels, but you know those things have happened before.
Tombstone by Yang Jisheng
The full name of the book is “Tombstone – Documentary of the Great Famine in China in the 1960s”.
One of the things I admire about the Party is that they can define and name them, such as “People’s Liberation Army”, such as “Three Years of Natural Disasters”. Even friends who fully know that it is not a natural disaster, when they mention this history, Names such as “three years of natural disasters” are often used inadvertently.
I just happened to be listening to Abraham Ascher’s Russia: A Short History recently, and during Lenin’s reign there were similar land reforms and cauldrons, which also led to dramatic reductions in agricultural yields and mass deaths (Stalin came back later…), and also At first, you pretended to listen to objections, and later when there were more objections, a counter-revolutionary was suppressed. Your party copied it every step of the way.
Interlude to complain: Another example is Stalin’s coming to power – when Lenin considered his successor, Trotsky was the most important thing, and he was very suspicious of Stalin, believing that he was incompetent and rude. It’s easy to confuse a person’s ability to engage in political power struggles with his ability to “govern”. “He must have some ability to climb to such a high level.” I have heard this kind of saying since I was a child – these are two kinds of abilities, and history has repeatedly proved that Eight hundred times.
Shanghai Life and Death by Zheng Nian & A Drop of Tears by Wu Ningkun
Unlike the previous books, these two books are personal memoirs.
Zheng Nian, the author of Shanghai Life and Death, whose husband was a diplomat, later became the general manager of Shell Oil’s office in Shanghai. After her husband died, Zheng Nian raised her daughter alone. This book is mainly about the period from the Cultural Revolution to Zheng Nian’s final departure from Shanghai, and her daughter’s death. This book definitely deserves a six-star recommendation.
It is also a memoir, I don’t like “A Teardrop” so much. From the perspective of understanding history, I think it is worth reading, but when I read this book, I can’t help but think that Wu Ningkun can survive. The main reason may be that he The wife is virtuous enough and sacrificed enough. There is a wife who is so hard-working and persistent, of course he can smile openly to life. The main point of shocking me in this book is that the intellectuals at that time had already begun to be “reformed”, and they were constantly writing self-criticism and self-criticism. At the same time, they kept writing letters to foreign friends to persuade them to come back. …
There are no special theoretical books, all of which are the history of suffering. When my younger sister discussed with me once, she said: the whole world knows the suffering of the Jews; the suffering of the Chinese people is unknown to the Chinese themselves (they are banned, and there is no way to understand them, such as the collapse of the 75.8 Reservoir in Henan). Casualties and damages at this level of the dam have hardly been mentioned at home or abroad.)
Among the more theoretical books, the most impressive ones are Teacher Qin Hui’s “Ten Treatises on Tradition” and “Out of the Empire”. I suddenly thought that the name “Out of the Empire” is quite appropriate at this moment.
Many books should be unavailable, https://booksc.org/ should still be available for download.
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