Chapter 155 Resisting "Anti-Rightists" Are Persecuted

Mr. Li Jiaji from Shanghai wrote a letter on March 22, 1996.He was the head of the Shanghai Education Bureau.He said: I was also one of the "rightists" in 1957.I am very happy after reading "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightists". As far as I know, several middle school principals in Shanghai refused to carry out the "anti-rightist struggle" in their schools, saying that there were no "rightists" in their schools.The bureau had no choice but to transfer them away from Shanghai to "support" Ningxia.Among them was Zhu Xinzhong, the principal of a middle school in Zhabei District, Shanghai. After arriving in Ningxia, he was actually sent to work in a labor camp!Later, he died at the labor reform site in Ningxia...

Letter from Mr. Jiang Wanli, Shenyang, May 20, 1996: I would like to thank you for your great courage and perseverance in exploring the truth of history, presenting the gloomy and suffering historical records to readers and passing them on to future generations.This is a consolation to the more than 550,000 "rightists" who have been wronged and wronged and their family members who have been implicated in an even larger number. "Leftist" political strategists are a soul cleanser for those political speculators who chase the wind and waves and help the evildoers. Your masterpiece is a mirror. Although it is about history, it is facing the future.

I have also been wronged for 23 years because of the "rightist" issue. I wasted my youth and changed from a 26-year-old boy to a thin old man.For decades, he has always been suffocated with the indignation of being deceived into a trap. It is obviously a conspiracy, but he is nicknamed "Yangmou". Argument.Not long ago, someone defended the "Yangmou", saying that the anti-rightist "this decision is not completely without objective basis", but "mistakes on the two most critical issues." It is obviously a "Left" error, but some people always understate it as an individual error.This is the fundamental problem.If they cannot face up to the fundamental mistakes in politics, or if they know they are wrong and insist on speaking out, under certain conditions such people will return to their old jobs.

I hope that China will become stronger faster.Therefore, I feel that your book is valuable to present people, future generations, and society, because this book has written history objectively and truthfully. Mr. Gao Xueren, a retired cadre of Dagang Oilfield, wrote to the author on November 24, 1997: I am a "May 7th Warrior".In 1957, I was under twenty-six years old, and I was the section chief of a certain department of the Hebei Provincial Government. The core of Mao Zedong's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People" is to ask everyone not to regard contradictions among the people as contradictions between ourselves and the enemy.However, the "anti-rightist struggle" regards a large number of contradictions among the people as contradictions between ourselves and the enemy!In this way, more than 500,000 outstanding cadres inside and outside the party are regarded as enemies.

"Anti-Rightists" not only caused more than half a million "Rightists" and their relatives to suffer, but more importantly, they hurt the hearts of two generations of intellectuals and caused the poverty of the Chinese people—"Great Leap Forward" and "Anti-Rightist" , "Cultural Revolution", all developed on the basis of "anti-rightists". Mr. He Kepeng, a reader in Pingtan County, further pointed out in his letter on September 2, 1996: The fundamental mistake of the anti-rightist struggle lies in setting a precedent for "convicting crimes with words".

No matter how great a person is, his understanding of things is limited by the times.What was considered to be a fragrant flower at that time may also be regarded as a poisonous weed at this time; remarks that were regarded as a poisonous weed at that time may represent the truth at this time.What's more, a sentence can be understood in this way or in another way; it can be said to be loyal, or it can be slandered as attack and slander; it can be understood as well-intentioned criticism, or it can be said to be malicious slander.The standard of conviction in words, no matter how precise its literal expression, cannot prevent the arbitrariness of conviction.

What's more, the right to convict is not handed over to a third party, but to the person being criticized, which opens the door for retaliation. Fang Ming, a reader from Ningbo, Zhejiang, wrote in a letter on June 6, 1996: First of all, Mr. has the courage and insight to break through the forbidden zone and write such a thick and brilliant masterpiece. He dared to write straight and straight. Anti-Rightists were the first act of Mao Zedong's "Left" mistakes in his later years. He dared to conclude that the so-called "Zhang Luo Alliance" was It is a strange injustice through the ages, and he dared to put forward the proposition that "the anti-rightist movement is wrong".

Secondly, the author believes that the book "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightists" is not only for today's youth to understand the past and not make the mistakes of historical elegy, but more importantly, for the present, for today! Since the "Anti-Rightist Movement", the "class struggle as the key link" has been mentioned again, and this policy has been strengthened again and again, three times four, four times five, "speaking every year, every month, every day" , which led to a series of erroneous political movements, and finally led to the Cultural Revolution movement that caused 800 million people to suffer.

Tracing back to the origin, its origin stems from the "Anti-Rightist Movement" in 1957.Therefore, to get to the bottom of the matter, please start from the source!Please start by denying the "Anti-Rightist Movement"! In a letter dated January 28, 1996, Li Yunhe, former deputy director of the Rural Policy Research Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, said: In Hangzhou, I was the first to buy "Historical Elegy - The History of the Anti-Rightists".That night, I told more than a dozen "May 7th" friends by phone that they bought the book at Xinhua Bookstore the next day and told me that they were attracted by the catalog.I said, "Thirty yuan a book is too expensive." They said, "Don't say thirty yuan a book, even a hundred yuan a book, you have to buy it... This book speaks from the bottom of our hearts!"

Mr. Li Yunhe believes that the shortcoming of "Historical Elegy: The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement" is that "it did not link the 'rightist' remarks in 1957 with the top-down implementation of reforms in the 1980s". He said: The forward-looking, people-oriented, and reformative nature of the "rightist" speech is only more obvious when it is connected with the reforms of the 1980s.Looking back, many "rightist" speeches represent the will of the people, reflect the requirements of the times, and call for reform.If policy makers adopted their opinions (instead of suppressing reformers), China would definitely not be what it is today... If "Historical Elegy-The End and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement" spends more ink from this "perspective" and this "position", it may be better.

In November 1995, the book "Historical Tragedy - The Beginning and End of the Anti-Rightist Movement" was published in Hong Kong before the mainland edition was published. Hong Kong is the settlement of "May 7th fighters".Because many "May 7th fighters" tried their best to escape with the help of "overseas relations" after the disaster in 1957, and most of them settled in Hong Kong.Therefore, this book is a bestseller in Hong Kong.Hong Kong magazines have reprinted some chapters of this book. The 12th issue of "Ming Pao Monthly" in 1995 introduced the book as follows: