Chapter 19 The fifth article is a positive contest, criticizing Wang Dongxing by name

The meeting was held on the 25th, and that night, I went to Jiang Yizhen's room to discuss with him whether to criticize Wang Dongxing by name. We believe that Wang Dongxing played a very important role in smashing the "Gang of Four".This was something that should have been done, but it should still be recognized that he has done a great job.Without his active participation and the use of the 8341 Unit under his direct command, the crushing of the "Gang of Four" in October 1976 would not have been possible.But we need to talk about the formulation of the "two whatevers" and our persistence in it, the resistance to discussions on the standard of truth, the obstruction of rehabilitating the "Tiananmen Incident" and Deng Xiaoping's coming to lead our party and country, and the resolution of the "Cultural Revolution" The unjust, false and wrongly decided cases and the negative attitude towards the Kangsheng issue, etc., Wang Dongxing owed a lot of debts.His position is indeed very wrong, and his attitude is very bad.He plays the role of a big backstage in the matter of adhering to the "two normals" - he himself has said a lot of unsightly things, and he is also the backstage boss of other people who insist on the "two normals".If his name is not mentioned, many things cannot be explained thoroughly, and many problems cannot be explained clearly.

At the group meeting in the first ten days, the speeches involved the matters in charge of Wang Dongxing, and they avoided mentioning his name.When reading the reports in the briefing, we always feel that this kind of concealment is not in line with the full promotion of the spirit of democracy.Democracy is not a gift, only oneself can take positive action.And Wang Dongxing is at this meeting. Although he will not come to our group meeting, he will see our criticism from the briefing.If he thinks that our criticism does not conform to the facts or there are inconsistencies, he can make a statement.If he thinks what we are saying is wrong, he can also refute it, and the two sides can discuss and argue.We have the right to democracy. He is the vice chairman of the Party Central Committee, and of course he has his own democratic rights.After thinking about it, we thought it was time to name and criticize Wang Dongxing when the meeting had reached such a stage, and felt that doing so would be beneficial to the meeting.

Of course we are not without concerns.We knew that what we wanted to do was directly criticize the Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo Standing Committee member in a fairly large meeting.Doing such a thing is completely permitted in the party constitution. A party member has the responsibility to severely criticize no matter who has major mistakes and shortcomings in the party.We also believe that our criticism is an action taken after we have seen it, not a reckless act without seeing it, and it can receive positive results.But this is a major event after all, and we don't know that there are such precedents in the history of the party, so we have to think about it repeatedly.We also thought that it would be best to ask the leader for permission before doing such a thing, but we felt it was inconvenient.So I decided to take on this responsibility myself.

So the two decided to act immediately, and Jiang Yizhen fired the first shot on the morning of the 26th.Jiang Yizhen was the first person in our Northwest Group and the entire meeting to criticize Wang Dongxing by name.Jiang Yizhen said in his speech that he was with Wang Dongxing during the Long March, went to Yan'an with Wang Dongxing, and worked with Wang Dongxing, saying that he had a good impression of Wang Dongxing.Then he politely affirmed Wang Dongxing's contribution to safeguarding Mao Zedong's safety and smashing the "Gang of Four" over the years.Then he asked a series of questions: questioning Wang Dongxing's attitude towards Premier Zhou and Comrade Deng Xiaoping, and exposing what he said in December 1976, "Didn't you try (in 1975) Deng Xiaoping's tricks? It just didn't work! Jiang Yizhen also criticized Wang Dongxing's attitude on the discussion of "practice is the sole criterion for testing truth".Jiang Yizhen said that he was obstructed by Wang Dongxing when the Ministry of Health vindicated false and wrong cases.He exposed Wang Dongxing's protection of Liu Xiangping when he denounced the "Gang of Four" in Beijing Hospital.

After Jiang Yizhen's speech, Yang Xiguang and I made a joint speech in the Northwest Group, echoing Jiang Yizhen's speech (this speech was given by Yang Xiguang).In our speech, we focused on criticizing Wang Dongxing's adherence to the "two whatevers" after smashing the "Gang of Four", obstructing Deng Xiaoping's coming out to work, obstructing discussions on truth standards, etc.Yang Xiguang knew that there were many things about Wang Dongxing, so he spoke more specifically.For example, he was able to accurately relay the specific content of a certain speech by Wang Dongxing, and clearly explained the time and place of Wang's speech, and also cited the names of people who could testify at the time.Many people in the group didn't know much about what Yang Xiguang said at the time, so everyone was very interested.

When Jiang Yizhen and Yang Xiguang spoke in the northwest group, the comrades in the group certainly noticed that we criticized Wang Dongxing by name, but no one made any comments on this point at the meeting, as if they didn’t think there was anything special place.It was just at dinner on the 26th and breakfast on the 27th that someone said to me, "You guys should do this!" I am of course concerned about how the leadership of the conference will react if we take such an action.First I pay attention to the briefing.Jiang Yizhen, Yang Xiguang, and Yu Guangyuan's speeches in the Northwest Group were faithfully published in the briefing.The staff who compiled the briefing did not take measures to delete the names of the members of the Central Standing Committee.And judging from the speed at which the briefing was logged out, it didn't look like he had asked anyone for instructions.Because if you ask for instructions, it will always affect the time when the briefing is issued.

At the meeting, I was also concerned about the reaction of the other five groups to the matter of naming and criticizing Wang Dongxing after we did this.I noticed that statements that echoed ours were coming, if not immediately, but slowly. I can't remember the situation of each group. I only remember that the first person in the southwest group to criticize Wang Dongxing by name was Hu Jiwei.Two days later, he said a lot about Wang Dongxing in a long speech.The materials he cited in his speech were more specific, and his criticism of Wang Dongxing was more concentrated and powerful.Afterwards, various groups named and criticized Wang Dongxing a lot. Many old comrades exposed many of Wang Dongxing's wrong words and deeds, and some speeches used sharp language.

In a word, during the entire conference process, there was no incident of being criticized for publicly criticizing such a vice-chairman at the conference.This shows that this meeting has indeed fully promoted democracy, making our original concerns unnecessary.