Xi Jinping recently hosted a mobilization and Education conference on the history of the CPC in Beijing, calling for a Party-wide study and education on Party history. He stressed the need to establish a so-called correct view of Party history, asking for the so-called “correct understanding and scientific evaluation of major events, important meetings and important figures in Party history”, and asking for the so-called “opposition to historical nihilism”.
According to the report, Xi was immediately questioned by a large number of mainland netizens after he made the statement, and one of the key questions was “Does the history of the CPC stand the test of history? In his book “Tombstone”, former Xinhua correspondent Yang Jijian pointed out that the CCP has no intention to restore the historical truth until now, and the book was also banned.
In addition, the Cultural Revolution that broke out on the mainland in the past, the CCP did not admit that it was started by Mao Zedong and aimed to eradicate dissidents, and the officials even revised the historical facts in textbooks, denying that Mao Zedong had made mistakes; and the June 4 Tiananmen Democracy Movement that broke out on the mainland in 1989, the CCP mobilized the CCP army to massacre students and people, and the officials still have not announced the number of people killed, and whitewashed the massacre as The massacre was also whitewashed as a “storm”.
The French broadcaster mentioned that a netizen who knows the correct party history of the CCP bluntly said in response, “Who is actually engaging in nihilism, you know”, and the media outlet commented, “The difficulty in making the CCP party history into a credible history seems to be great”.
Song Yongyi, a California State University library professor who has studied the history of the CCP’s Cultural Revolution in depth, told Voice of America that the CCP’s history is built on one lie after another. Now Xi Jinping is asking the party to reject “historical nihilism” and to establish a correct view of party history, but he is actually worried that the CCP will lose the hearts and minds of the people if the lies are constantly exposed.
Song Yongyi said that the truth about the CCP’s history, which had been concealed, was constantly being revealed. He has lost confidence in the people of the country and the party, and has become suspicious of the lies he created in the past. So now he wants to use the Chinese Communist regime to strongly cover up these revealed historical truths and reunite them with lies.
He said, to put it bluntly, it is a lie to rule the party, and then to achieve the purpose of lying to rule the country again. The most important thing about history is the word truth. From the history of a country, a party, to the history of a village, a school. If you leave the truth, you must be unified into a false history. It is impossible to succeed.
Song Yongyi said that history without truth is actually “historical nihilism”, which is what Xi Jinping wants instead. He wants to turn it into a stricter no-go area for researching historical writing or revealing the truth about history. What he won’t let you know, even if you already know it, he wants to falsify it, he wants to neuter it again.
Xu Youyu, a former visiting scholar at New York’s New School University and a well-known public knowledge scholar on the mainland, said that the purpose of the Chinese Communist Party‘s history is to serve the present day. The history of the CCP is not only “surnamed Party”, but also the surname of the party leader, so its party history is always used to smear and rewrite.
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