Chapter 142 More than 99 percent of the "rightists" corrected

After completing the work of removing their hats, they continued to correct the "rightists".The correction work is more complicated. It is necessary to distinguish the boundary between correction and non-correction. It is not like "one size fits all" like removing all hats. By 1980, the work of correcting the "rightists" was basically over. After such decapitation and correction, the total number of "rightists" in the country has been accurately counted, that is, more than 550,000.Of course, this only refers to the "authentic" "Rightists", and does not include "Center-Rightists" and "anti-socialist elements".If these "molecules" and the implicated family members are counted, there will be millions of people!

However, Mao Zedong estimated on June 29, 1957 that there were only about 400 "rightists" in Beijing, and only about 4,000 in the whole country! Ten days later, Mao Zedong doubled his estimated number of "rightists."Even so, there are only about 8,000 people in the whole country. By the time the Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in September 1957, there were more than 62,000 "rightists" nationwide.At this time, Mao Zedong estimated that by the end of the "anti-rightist movement", there would be about 150,000 "rightists" in the country.

On September 16, 1959, when the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Decision on the Handling of Rightists Who Have Been Reformed", it stated that "about 450,000 rightists have been exposed nationwide." ! By 1980, the statistics were 552,877 people! From Mao Zedong's initial estimate of 4,000 people to the final 550,000 people, it has increased by a full 137 times! After careful inspection in 1980, the final statistics showed that there were more than 540,000 "rightists" corrected, accounting for more than 99% of the total number of "rightists"①!

This shows that more than 99% of the "rightists" are mislabeled! This shows that more than 99.9% of the "rightists" are wrongly marked! This shows that more than 99% of the "rightists" hit by the vigorous "anti-rightist movement" in 1957 were wrong! After examination, there are five "rightists" who "maintain the original case" and "not corrected" across the country, at the central level, and more than 90 at the local level. In other words, there are less than 100 "rightists" who "uphold the original case" and "have not corrected it" in the whole country!

Regardless of whether these people are "true" "rightists", this is less than a hundred people, accounting for only 2/10,000 of the total number of rightists! It is worth mentioning that, in addition to the "rightists", there are 350,000 so-called "center-right elements" (that is, "centre-right", whose "model" is Professor Fu Ying).These "center-right elements" have also suffered historical humiliation.