Chapter 153 The experience of a "die-hard rightist"

Letter from Mr. Qiu Zhonglu, Shanghai Pudong, September 8, 1996: After reading the masterpiece, I burst into tears.I was designated as a "rightist in the party with ordinary circumstances and particularly bad attitude" back then. I went to Ke Qingshi to ask for truth from facts, and was arrested and sent to reeducation through labor.Because we were diehards, about 3,000 people from our group were sent to Gansu Hexi Corridor, Anxi County, World Wind Bank, Changma River Reservoir Project, and reeducation through labor. At an altitude of 3,790 meters, at the uninhabited Gongpo Spring for 800 miles, 15,000 catties of sulfur were refined at a cost of 3.8 million. After dismounting, they were transferred to Bianwan Farm.Die, die, die, die until the Spring Festival of 1962, and the rest of the "immigrants" who survived by chance were sent to Xinjiang.I wrote complaints year after month, and I visited the Central United Front Work Department in Liubukou, Beijing. My family was ruined, my wife left (without children)...

To this day I still consider myself a "rightist"!The order of my rightists is "rightist with hat", "rightist with hat off", "rightist with hat in the hands of the masses", then "rightist with hat on", then "rightist with hat off", then "rightist with hat in the hands of the masses" rightist", "misdrawing the rightist", to "correcting the rightist".Just changed a few different names. I think there are more than 500,000 "rightists", and only five "have not been corrected". Is the movement worth doing so big?What appeared in the document was a summary of the clean-up of rightists in 1982: there were more than 550,000 rightists, 31,700 center-right and anti-socialist elements, and less than 3,000 left after re-examination.More than 2,000 people have been wronged to be a rightist. Where is the right of the anti-rightist movement?

I am a child of a poor peasant. I went to elementary school for four years and studied as an apprentice in Jinan for three years.During his apprenticeship, he joined an organization of the Eighth Route Army, collected intelligence, bought contraband at that time, and sat in a Japanese prison.I joined the Eighth Route Army in 1942, and my unit went to Shanghai (the 26th Army). I was wounded and hospitalized. Later, the troops went to North Korea. I stayed in the Shanghai Public Security Bureau and served as the director and a deputy judge of the First Intermediate Court.In 1956-1957, during the review of the reform-through-labour prisoners on the Yingxia Railway and Dahuofang Reservoir, I was said to be a counter-revolutionary and voiced my grievances.During the Anti-Rightist Movement, I was classified as a rightist for refusing to admit to these charges.

Mr. Cheng Shiguang from Chongqing wrote to me on July 19th, saying: I have read the masterpiece "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightist Movement", and I feel a lot of emotion. I was the youngest person involved in this movement, and the past is vivid in my memory. I was only 21 years old when I was classified as a "rightist" in April 1958.I was born in a poor family. During the Anti-Japanese War, my father was doing business in Chongqing and was killed by a Japanese plane.I only went to elementary school, and then I was an apprentice in Chongqing, and I was born as a worker.He joined the revolution in 1950 at the age of 15, joined the Communist Youth League in 1953, served as the chairman of the labor union of the railway engineering team, repaired the Baocheng Railway, and served as a publicity and education officer for the engineering department.In March 1957, he entered the Guiyang Party School and studied Marxism-Leninism philosophy and the history of the Communist Party of China.

Born in the new society, like me, I am positive about my career, work, and future, with a sincere and pure heart, under normal circumstances, youth is beautiful.However, this anti-rightist movement made me fall into an unjust prison, and I had no political life for 21 years.But I am firmly confident that I will not be an anti-party and anti-socialist "rightist".He was active and willing to work hard, but in those days, even if there was a King Kong made of iron and a "shenhuo mortal", he was tortured to exhaustion and dying... During the "Cultural Revolution", I was sent to the countryside again.I was still dissatisfied with this, and appealed to the Central Committee, the Ministry of Railways, the province, and the original unit hundreds of times, and went to Beijing twice in May 1973 and March 1976 to appeal to Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou. Submit appeal materials.At the gate of Zhongnanhai, it was handed over to the PLA cadres sent by Chairman Mao to receive the letter.But in the days when the "Gang of Four" was rampant, not only could it not solve any problems, but it even put more emphasis on criticizing and controlling me.

One day in Heqing, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party finally completely corrected and rehabilitated me.What makes people laugh and cry is that when I was rehabilitated, I checked the materials and found that my hat had been taken off as early as the 10th anniversary of the National Day, but I never knew it.I didn't know until this time when I signed the correction conclusion.This is really a big joke on me.Because the people had no rights at that time, and the country was powerless, I suffered more injustices such as the separation of my wife and children, and being sent to the rural labor camp.

In addition to being "a lot of emotion", he sent a poem: Heilongjiang reader Yang Taishan wrote on June 5, 1996: I am one of your loyal readers.When I learned that "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightists" was published, I longed for it;However, some friends and business travelers in Beijing have searched bookstores of all sizes and found nothing... The reason why I want to buy this book is because I have a special feeling.I am one of the youngest rightists in the Republic. I was in my third semester in the Chinese Department of a university in the north. I was only twenty years old and was designated as a "student rightist."

I was born in 1937, identified as a "rightist" in 1957, retired in 1997, and occupied three "sevens" in my life! In that specific historical era, I had special personal feelings and complicated experiences.You can focus on this history, I admire your vision... Letter from Wang Jiajun, Nantong, Jiangsu, June 26, 1996: In 1955 I graduated from the Journalism Department of Fudan University and was assigned to work as a reporter for the Central People's Broadcasting Station.During the airing, I collected and wrote a lot of manuscripts which were broadcast on the "News Network" program.At that time, at the invitation of Comrade Pu Xixiu, several news articles appeared on the front page of Wen Wei Po with the headline "Our newspaper's special cable for Beijing".I have never joined the Democratic League, but because of my relationship with Pu Erjie and my writing for Wen Wei Po, I was accused of being a member of the "Zhang Luo League" and a capable general under the "capable female general" in the anti-rightist movement.

Coincidentally.When Wang Zhong came to Beijing in the spring of 1957, I met him at Ta Kung Pao with many of my colleagues in Beijing. During our conversation, he talked about the lack of an Evening News in Beijing.For this reason, I became the editor-in-chief of the bourgeois colleagues' newspaper "Beijing Evening News" that implemented Wang Zhong's thoughts and ideas on running a newspaper.In fact, the matter of running a newspaper is pure fiction. What's more, Chu Anping spoke at the Mingfang symposium, and I reported it immediately after returning to Taiwan.After asking for instructions from the leadership, I got the current instruction: I will not change a word, and I will broadcast it as it is.This is the eve of the anti-Rightist struggle that is considered today as "black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it", "lead snakes out of their holes, gather and annihilate them".When I wrote this news, I was accused of spreading the fallacy of "the party under heaven" during the movement.I really want to add a crime, there is no reason to worry about it.

I am a young reporter who is not deeply involved in the world and has just joined the work. I am familiar with and communicate with the three big rightists in the news industry, so I am naturally doomed.After being denounced, he put on a hat and was sent to the Zhongjie Farm in Huanghua County, Bohai Sea to be sent to labor reform (Wen Jize and Shao Yanxiang were also there). My rightist hat was only removed in the late period of the "Cultural Revolution" and on the eve of smashing the "Gang of Four".The length of time can be described as old right.After the Third Plenary Session, I was transferred from Nantong Teachers College to Nantong People's Broadcasting Station.In 1988, he became the chief reporter.Retired at the age of 60 in 1994.After retirement, I am often invited to various places to participate in social activities. I feel that I am not aging physically and mentally, and I am still full of energy.

Reader Zhu Yucheng wrote a letter from Jinhua on June 8, 1996, recalling the past painfully: I have read the master's masterpiece several times, and I am so sad after reading it!Especially those of my generation who came from the hardest-hit areas felt even more cordial, and the historical screen shots came slowly in their minds. The year 1957 was indeed a disaster-ridden year for a disaster-ridden nation.I was only fifteen years old at the time, a doll who was still studying in elementary school.In these catastrophic years, he was accused of being an "active counter-revolutionary" and sentenced to ten years in prison! At the end of 1959, I happened to read Peng Dehuai's ten thousand words book in Jurong Juvenile Correctional Center in Jiangsu Province. I was moved by Peng Gong's spirit of pleading for the people. After serving his sentence, he was forced to stay in prison for another seven years.The years in prison lasted for twenty-four years!It can be said that a young man became a monk, his child body was full of turmoil, he was imprisoned at a young age, and he has gone through the vicissitudes of the world!Party leaders Liu, Deng, and a generation of pillars of the generation Peng Luo Lu Yang can all be blameless, why is there any reason?Where is the law?What's more, my generation's small people call? !