"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- CIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 21,1969—Page 12 — 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! ao : ~rEty -