Winner of a 2005 AAJA
National Journalism Award
FROM THE ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION
In November 2004, The Epoch Times published the award-winning editorial series “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.” The book provides an uncensored history that documents the lies and violence the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used to gain and hold on to power. The publication has sparked the most significant grassroots campaign China has ever seen. So far, more than 295 million Chinese have come forward, eager to dissociate themselves from a regime that has destroyed so many lives. Volunteers working for the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party assist Chinese people in submitting statements, in person or by mail, fax, phone, or email, renouncing their association with the CCP and its affiliated organizations, the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers. It is estimated that more than 700 million Chinese have been members of at least one of these organizations. By renouncing the CCP, Chinese aim to peacefully transform their troubled nation. Below, we provide a serialized excerpt from the “Nine Commentaries.”
Even representatives from the Comintern recoiled at the methods used during the rectification, saying that the Yan’an situation was depressing. People did not dare interact with one another. Each person had his own ax to grind, and everyone was nervous and frightened. No one dared to speak the truth or protect mistreated friends because each was trying to save his own life.
The vicious—those who flattered, lied, and insulted others—were promoted. Humiliation became a fact of life in Yan’an—it was either humiliate other comrades or humiliate oneself. People were pushed to the brink of insanity, having been forced to abandon their dignity, sense of honor or shame, and love for one another to save their own lives and their own jobs. They ceased to express their own opinions and recited Party leaders’ articles instead.
This same system of oppression has been employed in all CCP political activities since it seized power in China.
Russia’s February Revolution in 1917 was a relatively mild uprising. The tsar placed the interests of the country first and surrendered the throne instead of resisting. Vladimir Lenin hurriedly returned to Russia from Germany, staged another coup, and, in the name of communist revolution, murdered the revolutionaries of the capitalist class who had overthrown the tsar, thus strangling Russia's bourgeois revolution.
The CCP, like Lenin, picked the fruits of a nationalist revolution. After the war against Japan was over, the CCP launched a so-called “War of Liberation” (1946 -1949) to overthrow the KMT government, bringing the disaster of war to China once more.
Those who flattered, lied, and insulted others were promoted.
The CCP is well known for its “huge-crowd strategy,” the sacrifice of a massive number of lives to win a battle. In several battles with the KMT, including those fought in Liaoxi-Shenyang, Beijing-Tianjin, and Huai-Hai[1] the CCP used the most primitive, barbarous, and inhumane tactics, sacrificing huge numbers of its own people.
When besieging Changchun City in Jilin Province, northeastern China, to exhaust the city’s food supply, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was ordered to forbid ordinary people from leaving the city. During the two months of Change-huifs besiegement, nearly 200,000 people died of hunger and cold. But the PLA did not allow people to leave. After the battle was over, the CCP, without a tinge of shame, claimed that they had “liberated Changchun without firing a shot.”
From 1947 to 1948, the CCP signed the Harbin Agreement and the Moscow Agreement with the Soviet Union, surrendering national assets and giving away resources from the northeast in exchange for the Soviet Union’s full support in foreign relations and military affairs.
According to the agreements, the Soviet Union would supply the CCP with 50 airplanes, give the CCP weapons left by the surrendered Japanese in two installments, and sell the Soviet-controlled ammunition and military supplies in China’s northeast to the CCP at low prices.
If the KMT launched an amphibious landing in the northeast, the Soviet Union would secretly support the CCP Army. In addition, the Soviet Union would help the CCP gain control over Xinjiang in northwestern China; the CCP and the Soviet Union would build an allied air force; and the Soviets would help equip 11 divisions of the CCP Army and transport one-third of its U.S.-supplied weapons (worth $13 billion) into northeastern China.
To gain Soviet support and advanced weapons, the CCP promised the Soviet Union special transportation privileges in the northeast both on land and by air; it offered them information about the actions of both the KMT government and the U.S. military; it provided them with products from the northeast (cotton and soy-beans) and military supplies; it granted them preferential mining rights in China; it allowed them to station armies in the northeast, including Xinjiang; and it permitted them to set up the Far East Intelligence Bureau in China.
If war broke out in Europe, the CCP would send an expeditionary army of 100,000 plus 2 million laborers to support the Soviet Union. In addition, the CCP promised to merge some special regions in Liaoning Province into North Korea, if necessary.
I. Liaoxi-Shenyang, Beijing-Tianjin, and Huai-Hai battles were the three major battles the CCP fought with the KMT, from September 1948 to January 1949, that annihilated many of the KMT’s crack troops. Millions of lives were lost in these three battles.
See next week’s edition for the next installment.
The “Nine Commentaries”
has inspired
296,740,043
Chinese people to quit their association with the Chinese Communist Party and related organizations.