The Chinese Communist Party‘s biggest task this year is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding! General Secretary Xi Jinping kicked off the celebration on Feb. 20 by urging the Party to learn Party history well and not to be nihilistic at the “Party History Learning and Education Mobilization Conference. Why did Xi Jinping say this? Could it be that the hearts of the party are in turmoil?
Xi Jinping asked for “correct understanding and scientific evaluation of major events, important meetings, and important figures in the history of the Party”. Xinhua News Agency published a commentary on “Xi Jinping’s first mention of ‘party history concept’ at the mobilization meeting has deep meaning. This is the first Time the general secretary has publicly raised the important statement of ‘establishing a correct view of party history,'” the top Communist Party sounding board reported.
The original thrust was to “flagrantly oppose historical nihilism” and the smearing of the Party’s historical martyrs. According to Xinhua, Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed: “We are not historical nihilists, nor are we cultural nihilists, and we cannot forget our ancestors and be presumptuous. What is meant by historical nihilism? “For some time, under the guise of ‘re-evaluation’ and on the pretext of ‘historical hooks’, some people have tried to distort history, cut off the source and deny the mainstream and essence of Party history; some have used Some of them use vulgar, vulgar and popular means to smear historical figures and events, vilify Party leaders, ‘parody’ and ‘spoof’ such heroic figures as Liu Hulan, Dong Cunrui, Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun and Lei Feng, and ‘re-evaluate’ some long-established traitors, reactionaries and traitors. The so-called ‘re-evaluation’ of the ‘rehash’ of the case, attempts to deconstruct the noble, denigrate the martyrs.”
Since Xi Jinping proposed opposing historical nihilism, a number of interrogations have appeared online, the first of which is the question of whether the CCP’s history has withstood the test of history.
For example, the CPC has insisted that “the Chinese Communist Party played a pivotal role in the nationwide war of resistance”, but it has not mentioned the historical fact that millions of regular troops of the Nationalist Army bore the burden of the frontal battlefield and only 100 senior generals died, while the Communist Army built up its strength in the rear, such as Yan’an, and only engaged in sporadic guerrilla warfare and only two generals died. Not a word is mentioned.
Several major historical events that occurred after the founding of the Chinese Communist Party have raised many questions both at Home and abroad about the account of the Party’s history. The great hunger of the late 1950s and early 1960s has been described by the CCP authorities as the “Three Years of Natural Disasters” and later as the “Three Years of Difficulties,” but researchers point out that the disaster was the result of Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward” in 1958. However, researchers point out that the disaster was a man-made disaster caused by Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward” in 1958, when he launched the “Great Leap Forward” to “catch up with the United Kingdom and surpass the United States”, and when everyone made iron and steel and ate big pot of rice, causing the fields to be deserted. Regarding the number of people who died in that man-made disaster, American demographer Judith Bannister estimated in her book “The Changing Chinese Population” in 1987 that the number of unnatural deaths was around 30 million. Former Xinhua correspondent Yang Jijian pointed out in his book Tombstone that China starved 36 million people to death during the so-called “three years of natural disasters”. The Chinese Communist Party has no intention of restoring the historical truth, and ‘Tombstone’ is still a banned book.
In 1981, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) ‘Resolution on Several Historical Issues of the Party since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China’ characterized the Cultural Revolution as “a civil strife wrongly started by the leaders and exploited by counter-revolutionary groups, which brought serious disasters to the Party, the country and the people of all races. Why not directly admit that it was a movement launched by Mao Zedong to eradicate dissident forces within the Party? As for the claim that the movement was used by counter-revolutionary groups, some people ask whether the so-called counter-revolutionary groups referred to Mao’s deputy Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, including Mao’s wife Jiang Qing. Instead of saying they used Mao, it could only be that Mao took advantage of their loyalty.
Although the resolution pointed out Mao’s “mistakes,” it still ended up characterizing Mao’s sins as “more meritorious than demerits” according to Deng Xiaoping’s wishes, and a crazy campaign that almost collapsed Chinese society and killed millions of innocent people was thus downplayed. What’s more, after Xi Jinping came to power, he proposed in 2013 that the last 30 years should not be used to negate the first 30 years, and the last 30 years should not be used to negate the second 30 years, confusing the two eras before and after the reform, and making it a no-go area to talk about the Cultural Revolution.
In this way, the expression of the Cultural Revolution has become more and more absurd, and the history textbook launched by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2018 not only deleted the word “error” in the old version of the textbook, “In the 1960s, Mao Zedong mistakenly believed that the Party Central Committee was out of revisionism and the Party and the country were facing the danger of capitalist restoration. In the old textbook, the word “mistake” and the expression “the Party Central Committee had developed revisionism” are used, and the Cultural Revolution is also told as a topic under Lesson 6 “Hard Exploration and Construction Achievements”, which is classified as “Hard Exploration”.
In September 2000, several Chinese media reported that the latest version of the history textbook had reverted to the tone of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The authorities have been reluctant to give a figure for the number of people killed in the 1989 pro-democracy movement that ended in a massacre, describing a universally recognized massacre as a “fiasco.
One netizen asked, “Who is doing the nihilism, you know”.
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