Chapter 35 As long as they know the truth, the masses will never blindly follow the reactionaries[1]

(February 26, 1946) one For all these reactionary demonstrations, including the demonstration in Chongqing on the 22nd, the students who were tricked into participating by the Kuomintang fascist reactionaries accounted for only a very small number of all the local students. For example, there were only 7,000 people in Chongqing on the 22nd, The number was reduced to 2,000, and there were only 2,000 in Shanghai on the 23rd. It can be seen that the vast majority of the Chinese people have a high level of political awareness. They can distinguish right from wrong, and will never follow the reactionaries blindly.The reason why the fascist reactionaries were able to instigate a part of the masses to participate in the demonstrations was partly by threats and partly by deceit.We believe that as long as the truth of Northeast China is understood and the conspiracy of the reactionaries is exposed, the real masses will never blindly follow the reactionaries.

two But no matter how vigorously the Kuomintang fascist reactionaries deceive and incite some students to stage counter-revolutionary demonstrations that provoke international and civil wars, and no matter how certain government authorities connive and encourage such counter-revolutionary demonstrations, in the final analysis, the reactionaries themselves will fail.The plot to provoke the two great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union to start the so-called Third World War so that the Chinese fascist reactionaries can profit from it and "turn over" from then on is bound to fail.With regard to the United States and the Soviet Union, their unity policy must remain unchanged, and they will definitely not be instigated by this batch of Chinese fascist stink.For the Chinese people, because this kind of conspiracy is completely anti-national, that is to say, if the reactionary conspiracy is realized, it will only benefit the remnants of German, Japanese and Italian fascism, and it will definitely be detrimental to the Chinese nation.With regard to those reactionary slogans, such as the so-called "recover the Northeast with iron and blood", "voluntary participation in the war, take back the Northeast with armed forces", "down with new imperialism", the Chinese people will soon know that this is a reactionary conspiracy against the interests of the Chinese nation.Regarding the conspiracy of the reactionaries to instigate a civil war, it is manifested in the extreme slander and insult of the CCP and democrats, destroying the newspapers of the CCP and democrats, and beating CCP members and democrats. All of these, the Chinese people also understand that the civil war is definitely not to be fought again. up.In a word, when the reactionaries are extremely rampant, the Chinese people will unite even more and stop all reactionary activities.

Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] These are two additional passages written by Mao Zedong when reviewing the Xinhua News Agency's commentary "With the Connivance and Encouragement of the Government Authorities, the Reactionaries Expanded Anti-Soviet and Anti-Communist Activities".The first paragraph was added after the original manuscript listed the Kuomintang reactionaries inciting and organizing a small number of students in Chongqing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Shanghai, Peiping, Wuhan and other places to carry out anti-Soviet and anti-communist demonstrations, as well as the sabotage activities of Kuomintang secret agents.The second paragraph is added at the end of this review.