Chapter 170 Chapter 25 The Fallen Star

Diana Lary believes that the main reason why everyone is in danger is the political instability of the Republic of China. Chiang Kai-shek clumsily identified domestic insecurity as China's key problem, and he insisted on opposing the Communist Party.But what he failed to appreciate was the key cause of the insecurity—not Communist agitation, but an uncontrolled and unpredictable military.His inability to change the climate of insecurity ... keeps many Chinese in constant fear. The deep and chilling fear of wartime espionage, combined with the multiple bases of secret conflict between the KMT and the Communist Party during the ten years of Nanking's power, produced a paranoid paranoia.Indeed, if one cannot imagine the background of long-term espionage and counter-espionage activities throughout China in the 1930s and 1940s, it is difficult to understand what happened in the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" that occurred in 1966-1976. In an era when people were imprisoned, beaten, and even killed as enemy "spies," how true were the legends about the KMT's conspiracies?

And police dogs have always played a role in the imagination of terror and counter-terrorism.It was Dai Li himself as a "dog and horse" who first introduced the German police dogs trained in the United States into China.Since then, the image of a vicious dog with teeth and claws has infiltrated the descriptions of the secret police in movies and TV.In a film about the underground Communist Party in Jiangxi in the 1930s, the head of the secret police in Ganzhou uses a biting dog to hunt down two Communist agents who have killed a KMT agent.First let the police dog smell the stabbing dagger, and then take it to a bathhouse, where one of the communists washed off the bloody smell on his body, and then sprinkled himself with wine.There is also a scene from the TV series "Lao She" staged in the 1980s, in which the Japanese military police used police dogs to hunt down a hero of the resistance movement in Beijing.In the TV series, the police dog frantically bit the anti-Japanese patriots.

The anti-subversive movement among the Communists in Yan'an was not only a normal response to Dai Li's persecution, but also an effective measure to mobilize the masses and emphasize unity within the Communist Party. From 1942 to 1943, due to the tragedy of Wang Shiwei's case, the rectification movement led by Chairman Mao was launched, and Wang was accused of being an enemy spy.By the time the rectification movement spread from low-level party cadres to the masses, the common people had come to believe that they were living in a world full of spies and secret agents, and that even they themselves were not good people.More than 90% of those who voluntarily pleaded guilty at the anti-special meeting of the Yan'an rectification movement were innocent, and this fact was announced by the Communist Party itself.