2024-03-15 12:00:22
Wei Junyi, a talented Tsinghua University student who once gave up studying in the United States and joined the CCP with full ideals. After experiencing the bloody and brutal political movements of the CCP, she wrote a book of reflection in her later years, describing the nineteen pains she experienced. Which nineteen hurts? (Provided by “A Hundred Years of Truth”)
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At that time, many enthusiastic young people with knowledge, ideals and ambitions were attracted by the CCP’s propaganda of establishing a “democratic, free, prosperous and powerful” new China. They defected to the CCP despite all difficulties and dangers.
However, following they fell into the arms of the CCP, their dreams were shattered by bloody and brutal political movements one following another, leaving them deeply regretful. The famous female writer Wei Junyi is one of them.
Today, I will talk to you regarding regrets regarding joining the CCP based on Wei Junyi’s book “Records of Pain”.Wei Junyi’s mental journey.
Nineteen pains in life
Wei Junyi was born in Beijing in 1917. His father studied in Japan. She was extremely smart since she was a child and later became a top student at Tsinghua University. Her father concluded that she was a talented person and wanted to send her to the United States for further study. But she resolutely abandoned all this and defected to the Chinese Communist Party.
In 1936, when she was 18 years old, she joined the Communist Party of China; in 1986, when she was 68 years old, she retired as president and editor-in-chief of the People’s Literature Publishing House. In her 50 years of following the CCP, she has experienced many unforgettable and heart-wrenching people and events.
In April 1986, she suffered hemiplegia due to cerebral hemorrhage; in 1987, she fell and fractured her right arm; in 1989, she suffered from cerebral thrombosis; in 1991, her pelvis was shattered once more. Under the continuous and unbearable pain and torture, and with the nerves in her right hand already necrotic, she practiced writing, walking and writing with extraordinary will. Finally, on the hospital bed, she wrote the most important work of her life, “The Record of Pain” with her left hand.
Someone summarized her “Record of Pain” into nineteen pains:
The first pain is the peril of the nation; the second pain is the loss of first love; the third pain is the “rescue movement”; the fourth pain is the loss of the eldest daughter; the fifth pain is the “suppression of the counter-revolutionary movement” and the “three-anti-five-counter-revolutionary movement”; the sixth pain is the “elimination of the counter-revolutionary movement”; the seventh pain is the “suppression of the counter-revolutionary movement” “Anti-Hu Feng Counter-Revolutionary Group Movement”; Eight-Pain Anti-Rightist Movement; Ninth-Pain Anti-Rightist Movement; Ten Pain-Anti-Rightist Opportunism Movement; Eleven-Pain “Counterattack ‘Using Novels to Anti-Party’ Movement”; Twelve-Pain Pain Movement of the Cultural Revolution; Thirteen were colleagues and friends who were tortured; Fourteen were Tsinghua alumni who were tortured; Fifteen were comrades in the “December 9th Movement” who were tortured; Sixteenth were Tsinghua seniors Jiang Nanxiang were tortured; Seventeen were tortured Zhou Yang, the “literary tsar” who tortured and punished others; when he was eighteen, he hurt his husband Yang Shu; when he was eighteen, he hurt himself.
She originally thought that in the communist “utopia” she believed in, there would be justice, morality, humanity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, and human rights.
However, following following the CCP for 50 years, what she has experienced is completely opposite to what she once believed in. These painful past events broke her heart.
Painful Thoughts on the “Rescue Movement”
The first chapter of “Records of Pain” recalls the Yan’an Rectification Movement launched by the CCP in 1942. One of the most terrifying scenes was the “rescue campaign” launched by Mao Zedong.
At that time, the CCP suspected that people coming from areas controlled by the Kuomintang were spies. From 1943 to 1944, more and more spies were arrested, ranging from intellectuals and middle school students to elementary school students, 12-year-olds, 11-year-olds, 10-year-olds, and even 6-year-old spies.
In Yan’an, the seat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the heart-rending screams of the victims might be heard all night long in rows of cave dwellings in the ravines near and far.
An old Red Army officer in charge of “catching spies” publicly said: “When others say they are opposed to forcing confessions, we will force them to do so. We will first ‘believe’ and ‘confess’ to you. If you don’t admit it, we will ‘force’ it.” .”
Wei Junyi’s husband, Yang Shu, who sold his property and took his family of seven or eight people to defect to the CCP, was “forced” to become a “Kuomintang agent” in this way.
All underground members of the Chinese Communist Party from Sichuan were labeled as “spies”, and Zou Fengping, secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, was forced to commit suicide. There was an artist at the Lu Xun Art Institute whose family committed suicide.
There was a student at Northwest Public School named Shi Ying, a descendant of the CCP’s “martyrs” who arrived in Yan’an at the age of 15. He also “confessed” that he was a spy. The relevant leader didn’t believe it at all, so he asked him: Which spy organization do you belong to? What time and place? Who introduced you to participate? He didn’t know anything regarding it. The leader asked once more: “Then why did you confess that you were a spy?” He said: “(The party) called for ‘confession is glorious’ and ‘confession is meritorious’, and they were given red flowers, tomatoes, pumpkins, and eggs. Noodles, of course I am willing to confess that I am a spy.”
A “Truth Report” was published in Yan’an, which published lies that framed people.
At that time, a hat was also invented called “unconscious agent”, which classified young people who really had no “fault” to blame into this category.
During the “Rescue Movement”, a total of 15,000 spies were killed in Yan’an, but in the end, none of them were real.
Wei Junyi wrote: “It’s so ridiculous! It’s terrible! By this time I have completely understood that this is nonsense, a strange creation with no common sense and no confidence in communism.”
Painful Thoughts on the Cultural Revolution
In the 1940s, following experiencing the CCP’s “rescue campaign”, Wei Junyi once discussed with her husband Yang Shu: “Now this is only done in the (Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia) border area. We people can still tolerate it and understand it. In the future, if we get The whole of China must never do this once more. Hundreds of millions of people will not agree.”
After the CCP seized power in 1949, what Wei Junyi was waiting for was not a concerted effort from top to bottom to build a “democratic, free, prosperous and powerful” new China, but an endless political campaign of persecution.
In May 1966, the Cultural Revolution broke out. The worst practices of the CCP’s “rescue campaign” in Yan’an were repeated throughout the party, the entire army, and the country, and were even worse.
As the head of the People’s Literature Publishing House, Wei Junyi was first treated as a “gangster” and fought with each other within the “gangster group”; then, like a “pig and dog”, he was driven back to his original unit, where he accepted day and night criticism from the rebels and was ordered to confess offense. She was labeled as an “unrepentant capitalist roader”, “anti-Party and anti-Maoist”, “a secret agent”, etc.
The reversal of right and wrong, good and evil, good and evil in the entire society, and the destruction of conscience, morality and human heart of many people, caused her to suffer from mental disorder for three full years. For more than a year, she did not recognize anyone at all and wanted to commit suicide all day long.
Her son, who was in the fifth grade of primary school, was beaten unconscious by the Red Guards in the summer of 1966. Her husband, Yang Shu, who was loyal to the Party, was labeled as a “Sanjia Village Cadre” and a “Counter-revolutionary Revisionist”. He was beaten by the rebels with iron rods until his bones and tendons were broken. He was expelled from the Party and later sent to work in Henan Province. Transformation. She herself was sent to Hubei for reform through labor. Her daughter was sent to a Yunnan farm for labor reform. The family of five lived apart from each other for seven years.
She recalled in “Record of Pain”: “Later, my daughter Tuantuan said to me: ‘We will not read any books from now on, but only one book – “Selected Works of Mao Zedong”. All other books are reactionary.’ The child’s words made me understand everything. That’s it. All culture is either feudal culture or bourgeois culture, and the new one is revisionist culture. All the education I have received since childhood, and all the cultural work I have carried out, are 100% ‘Fengzi Xiu’.”
“We intellectuals have no roots, so we can just shave them with a razor.”
After the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, Wei Junyi talked to her daughter regarding the thoughts she had hidden in her heart for a long time. She wants to write a long memoir, starting from the “Rescue Movement” and continuing to the end of the Cultural Revolution. She said that history might not be forgotten, and if she did not record the tragic, ugly and even heinous things that she had personally experienced, she would have to put them in a coffin.
So, she started writing “Record of Pain”, recalling and reflecting at the same time.
There is a chapter called “Editor’s Confessions.” She said that following the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, she was “liberated”, but in reality she entered a cage, and all she was asked to do was to deceive readers, workers, peasants and soldiers.
In 1980, she wrote an article “The Tragedy of Contemporary Man” in memory of her husband Yang Shu. She wrote: “What I want to write regarding is not my personal grief, that is secondary. What I want to write regarding is a person.” This person suffered and was beaten during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution. This is considered a common feeling for everyone. experience, and his experience is not the most painful in comparison. “What pained him the most” was that people used his faith – faith in the Party, Marxism-Leninism, and the leader – as a monkey’s playing tool and played with it once more and once more.
This cruel game finally forced him to question his “religious belief”. This doubt was obtained by “paying the most painful price in the soul.”
She wrote in “Record of Pain”:
“This is a history made with blood and tears… I just hope that this kind of tragedy will never happen once more in China.”
“What really pains me is that the various movements I have experienced in my life have caused irreparable disasters to our party and country. At the same time, under the influence of ‘left’ ideas, I have become both a victim and a perpetrator. By.”
“After joining the revolution, I was constantly faced with the choice of whether to be an upright person. This made me sadder for the ‘revolution’ than for my personal fate. I was sad and disappointed, and at the same time I was determined not to do this. I would rather If you share the same crime, you will never betray your friends.”
“All the grievances suffered by all these young and old people belong to the ‘Gang of Four’. Is this enough? I don’t think it is enough.”
“The most stupid democracy in the world is far better than the most brilliant dictatorship. It gives me the highest hope… Why be timid? I will welcome the stupid democracy that can make up its mind!”
When Wei Junyi’s daughter Yang Tuan recalled her mother’s “Record of Pain”, she wrote: “My mother has been pursuing her life hard, but only when her tears have dried up, she finally realizes that following a lifetime of hard work and struggle, what will she get in return?” What? When she relived her youthful ideals, when she had to admit that everything she sacrificed to pursue was contrary to her ideals at that time, as if she had circled the earth and returned to the same place, how might she not regret her life and feel pain? Where is the bone marrow?”
Why did the beautiful ideal of communism that Wei Junyi cherished when he was young eventually turn into a human tragedy of “revolution devouring its children”?
As a writer within the CCP system, Wei Junyi’s painful thoughts in his later years are commendable. However, Wei Junyi still did not find the source of the problem.
In 2004, The Epoch Times published a series of editorials “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”. After tracing its origins, it finally concluded that the CCP is a communist party whose essential characteristics are “false, evil, fighting, anti-heaven, anti-earth, anti-humanity, and anti-gods and Buddhas.” of cult.
This is the root of the tragedies in the lives of Wei Junyi, Yang Shu, and countless others who followed the CCP but were mercilessly devoured by the CCP’s blood and fire.
Okay, that’s it for today’s program. Thank you for watching. See you next time.
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