Chapter 37 Letter to Hong Yu[1]

(March 12, 1946) Comrade Hong Yu: The letter to me on January 25th has been received for a long time. I am very sorry that I did not reply until today. This is because I have been ill for several months. Please forgive me.After reading your letter in detail, I feel that I should agree with your opinion [2].On the specific issue about yourself, of course this is your voice, and I have not heard the other side; but I think the opinions you put forward are indeed worthy of attention and must be paid attention to by our party organization .Because it has been one and a half months since you sent the letter today. I don’t know if your problem has been solved during this period? If not, please go to Comrade An Ziwen, Deputy Director of the Organization Department, to discuss the solution face to face. I have given you I sent my letter to Comrade An Ziwen for reading.When your problem is solved, please let me know how it was solved, I would like to know the result of this matter.In short, I feel very guilty to you and many comrades, because there are too many facts that we have not done well in our work.Salute comrades!

Mao Zedong March 12 According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Hong Yu, born in 1918 in Nan'an, Fujian Province, was engaged in research work in the Research Office of the Department of Literature of Lu Xun Academy of Arts and Letters in Yan'an at that time.During the trial in Yan'an, he was wrongly reviewed, so he wrote a letter of appeal to Mao Zedong, and the problem was resolved after Mao Zedong intervened. [2] In his letter to Mao Zedong, Hong Yu said: During the rescue campaign, he was groundlessly suspected of being a KMT spy.He said that this approach is extremely detrimental to both the party and the individual. It can only harm innocent people and create confusion, and it is absolutely impossible to help the party organization figure out the problem.I hope that the Party Central Committee will pay close attention to the Party organizations at all levels, and never think that one more person or one less person is nothing just because the revolution is going to victory.In a certain sense, the work of the party is a very meticulous organizational work concerning people's hearts. The consequences of treating people under censorship arbitrarily are not just a matter of one or two people being treated roughly, it is related to people's support and dissatisfaction. A very important issue related to the success or failure of the revolution.