"Mao Tse-tung is destro

China throughout the milleniums . . .”

side. All this is ruining the internal soli-
darity of the peasants, undermining their
labor enthusiasm and impeding the de-
velopment of socialist agriculture.

He, far from abolishing the system of
the food tax, far from establishing single
rational rates and purchase prices of
farm produce, even decided to raise the
food tax, increasing thereby the burden
borne by the peasants. Moreover, he is
also applying the notorious “combina-
tion of industry, agriculture and mili-
tary affairs” compelling the peasants, in
addition to farming, to engage in indus-
trial production and undergo military
drill. He sent military units for per-
manent billeting in the countryside in
order to institute military control and
supervision over the work and life of
the peasants. Members of peasant fami-
lies, men and women, aged and young,
are forced every day to waste much
time in memorizing “quotations” and
“studying” Mao Tse-tung’s thought, rob-
bing the peasants of rest after arduous
work,

On the pretext of fighting against
“counter-revolutionary revisionism” he is
rejecting the system of workday units,
based on the principle of payment ac-
cording to work done, and also material
incentives—rewards for increasing pro-
duction. Under the cover of the noto-
rious slogan of “reliance on one’s own
forces,” the state does not render the
necessary financial, economic and tech-
nical assistance to collective farming
which was just getting under way, as-
sistance to the peasants who lead a
wretched and hard life. As a result of
Mao's pursuing this entire wrong policy
China’s agriculture, as hitherto, is ex-
tremely backward and the life of the
peasants remains poor and hard.

But the working peasants cannot
tolerate such a situation for long. They
necessarily will rise up more and more
to resolute mass struggle against Mao
Tse-tung for improving their material
and cultural standards.

: 8. He is destroying culture and educa-

tion, destroying the cultural heritage,
persecuting and annihilating the intelli-
gentsia.

To “defend the absolute authority of
Mao Tse-tung and of Mao Tse-tung’s
thought,” he is destroying the precious
national cultural heritage accumulated
and preserved in China throughout the
milleniums; he is also seeking to wipe
out the influence of progressive foreign
culture. He is burning Marxist-Leninist
literature published in China and other
countries, destroying progressive books
of national and foreign origin. He is
destroying the works of classics and
contemporary writers and artists: novels
—from Cervantes, Balzac and Ibsen to
Leo Tolstoy, Gorky and Sholokhov;
poems—from Homer, Dante and Heine
to Whitman, Hikmet and Neruda; musi-
_ cal compositions — from Mozart and
_ Beethoven to Tchaikovsky and Shosta-

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kovich; the works of Shakespeare, Gogal
and Tagore, paintings of Leonardo da
Vinci, Rembrandt, Picasso and Siquei-
ros—all this is regarded by Mao Tse-
tung as objects which have to be des-
troyed.

He prohibits the showing of plays and
films of different countries in China.
Even Chaplin's films and Paul Robeson’s
records have been placed under a strict
ban by him.

He is destroying the works of the
classics and contemporary writers and
artists of China: poems — from Chu
Yuan, Tao Yuan-ming, Li Po, Tu Fu, Po
Chu-i, Lu Fang-weng to Hsiao San and
Ai Ching; novels — from Lo Kuang-
chung, Shih Nai-an, Wu Chen-en, Tsao
Hsueh-ching to Ting Ling, Lao She and
Chao Shu-li; plays — from Kuang Han-
ching, Wang Shih-fu to Mei Lan-fan, Tien
Han and Tsao Yu; musical compositions
— from Yu Po-ya, Tsai Wen-chi, Chi
Kang to Nieh Erh, Hsi Hsin-hai and
Huo Lu-ting; paintings — from Su Tung-
po, Chen Pan-chiao to Chi Pai-shih and
Hsu Pei-hung; works on history — from
Ssuma Chien, Ou-yang Hsiu to Lu Chen-
you and Hou Wai-lou — all this is re-
garded by Mao Tse-tung as objects
which have to be destroyed.

All plays and films, which have not
been revised by Chiang Ching and do not
extol Mao Tse-tung have been banned by
him. Artists beloved by the entire peo-
ple like Chou Hsin-fang, Yan Hui-chu
and Pai Yang are persecuted by him.

He has dug up the graves of ancient
Chinese thinker Confucius, the national
hero Shih Ko-fa, the world renowned
painter Chi Pai-shih, the well-known
leader of the CPC and man of letters
Chu Chiu-po, burned the memorial
museum of the hero of the Tai Ping
revolution Li Hsiu-chen and destroyed
the rionument to the great revolution-
ary democrat Sun Yat-sen and the monu-
ment to the world-renowned poet Push-
kin.

Mao Tse-tung is destroying Buddhist
and Taoistic temples and pagodas which
are of great cultural and artistic value,
desecrating and destroying Moslem
mosques. He has inflicted on the Chinese
nation losses in the sphere of culture
which are incalculable and irreparable.

Under the guise of “struggle against
authorities” he brutally persecutes pro-
minent intellectuals in all fields of
knowledge. He mercilessly baits philoso-
phers, historians, economists, lawyers,
medical workers, mathematicians, che-
mists, physicists, biologists and other
scientists and specialists in social and
natural sciences. Under the pretext that
literary and art workers of the 1930s
followed the so-called “Wang Ming line”
and the trends in Russian literary criti-
cism and that the literature and art of
China were not in accord with the
thought of Mao Tse-tung, all CPC offi-
cials and prominent non-party literary

_and art workers of the period from the

1920s to 1960s inclusive were dubbed
“counter-revolutinary revisionists” and
“counter-revolutionary black bandits”;
they were subjected to arrests, beatings
and humiliation, forced to march
through the streets wearing dunce caps
condemned to hard labor or killed.

Under the slogan “seize all the posi-
tions of public opinion,” Mao Tse-tung
routed newspaper and magazine offices
throughout the country, and arrested,
humiliated and exiled to hard labor or
killed newsmen. More than 500 news-
papers and magazines have been closed
down.

To prevent the intellectuals from of-
fering him organized resistance, he dis-
solved and routed the All-China Federa-
tion of Literary and Art Circles, the All-
China Association of Educational Work-
ers, the All-China Journalists’ Associa-
tion and other mass professional 4nd
scientific organizations of the intellec-
tuals.

Under the slogan of struggle against
the “counter-revolutionary revisionist
system of education” he, in effect, stop-
ped the work of all educational institu-
tions in the country. Mao Tse-tung harsh-
ly persecutes and annihilates education-
alists, he has burnt the bulk of the text-
books and decided greatly to shorten
the period of study in all educational
establishments and to turn all higher,
special and _ military-political schools
into short-term courses (from a few
months to a year) of the Kanda type
that existed from the close of the 1930s
to the beginning of the 1940s in Yenan.
He forces young people and children
to read less and even not to read at all.
He has instructed all educational insti-
tutions to replace scientific and literary

_ text-books with his book of “Quotations”

and “Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung.”

Already in the beginning of the so-
called cultural revolution the hungwei-
pings acting on Mao Tse-tung’s orders
burned text-books on various subjects
and named their former teachers and
employees of educational institutions
“counter-revolutionary black bandits”
and “revisionists”; they humiliated them
in all manner of ways, subjected them
to public dishonor and beatings and as-

“sassinated them. As a result studies in

China’s educational establishments can-
not be resumed to this day. This situa-
tion is exactly what Mao Tse-tung had
planned. Only in such a situation can
he, on the one hand, direct a great mass
of the hungweipings into the army (ac:
cording to available information 500,000

- have already been sent there) and thus

gradually change the composition of the
officers and rank-and-file of the PLA, and,

on the other, send servicemen into edu-

ying the precious national heritage accumulated and preserved in

cational institutions of all levels so that
henceforth primarily only two subjects,
“Mao Tse-tung’s thought” and military
training, should be taught.

This discloses his great fears of in-
tellectuals and of knowledge. That is
why he not only persecutes and exter-
minates the best part of the Chinese
intelligentsia, but also pursues a policy
of stupefying the people thus prevent:
ing the younger generation of China from
becoming knowledgeable people and
turning them into a crowd of fools.
Knowing only Mao Tse-tung and _ his
thought they can become no more than
the blind tools of Mao Tse-tung and his
group and would be ready to fulfil all
their wishes and suffer any sacrifice for
their sake.

In destroying culture and the cultural
heritage, in annihilating the intellectuals
and enforcing the policy of stupefying
the people Mao Tse-tung has committed
incomparably greater crimes than Chin
Shih-Huang-ti (first emperor of the Chin
dynasty) who in the 3rd century BC.
burned books and buried alive several
hundred Confucianists for which he was
cursed by the people for all times. In
the 20th century there are many more
intellectuals in China and they are much
wiser than the intellectuals of the 3rd
century B.C.; they will assuredly find
appropriate ways of punishing Mao Tse
tung, the present, second Chin Shih
Huang-Ti, this most despotic of all the
despots in China's history.

TCU

9, He conducts a barbarous great-Hat
chauvinistic policy with regard to the
national minorities and annihilates theif

revolutionary leaders and cadres.

Following the traditions of the Te
actionary regimes of Chinese feudal
emperors, the Peiyan warlords and
Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-tung uses milk
tary-police forces to decimate national
minorities; he steadfastly enforces 4
policy of great-Han chauvinism which
finds its expression in discrimination,
disparagement, repressions, forcible ass!
milation or resettlement and disrespect
for the faiths, customs and traditions
of the national minorities. :

At the outset of the so-called cultural
revolution he sent numerous hungwé!
ping detachments from Peking to Inne!
Mongolia, Sinkiang, Ningsia, Chinghal
Tibet, Kwangsi, Yunnan, Kweichow and
other regions inhabited by national main
rities where they destroyed temples an
mosques, insulted the believers, commit
ted murders and arson, “rebelled” am
seized power. He used military units
deceived by him to annihilate cadres @!
ordinary citizens — Mongols, Tungkangs
Chuangs, Tibetans, Tais, Miaos
others. Mao Tse-tung arrests and pé!

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