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Mao ZedongandSnowconversation. (Picture source: Internet picture)
The CCP is inChristmasThe strict control during this period was criticized by many netizens. Netizens seized on the CCP’s loopholes and retorted: “Marxist-LeninistSuchwestern cultureWhat can I say? “When was it forbidden to wear suits?” “The Gregorian calendar used now was also invented by foreigners, so don’t use it anymore.” “We are invincible. From now on, we will boycott all things invented by foreigners. The QR code can no longer be used because it was invented by Japan. This is calledcultural confidence. “The more resistance there is, the more it reflects a lack of cultural confidence. True cultural confidence is all-inclusive!” “It is forbidden to speak foreign languages during foreign festivals, and it is forbidden to pay attention to the world outside the mainland!” ”
Undoubtedly, the CCP’s increasingly stupid operations have no benefit at all except highlighting its lack of confidence in politics and culture and its growing crisis in governance. Instead, it allows the people to see its weakness before its collapse. .
However, how many Chinese people know that such a foreign festival has been played by the CCP according to its needs since the Mao era.
A letter written by Mao to Dax in the United States on December 24, 1944 has been disclosed on the Internet. A typewritten letter from Major WAD Exheimer. In addition to thanking the latter for his hospitality and Christmas gifts, the letter also asked him to forward the two attached letters wishing him a happy Christmas and a happy New Year to the American General Hurley. (Patrick Hurley) and General Wedemeyer (Albert Wedemeyer). It is extremely rare for the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party to personally write a letter of thanks to a U.S. Army major and a Happy Christmas and New Year to two U.S. generals, with signatures in both Chinese and English.
In a letter signed by Mao to General Hurley, Mao said that on behalf of Zhu De, Zhou Enlai and himself, he wished him and all American friends of the CCP a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. In letters signed by Zhu De and Zhou Enlai, they also wished General Wedemeyer and all American friends of the CCP a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and said that it was a pleasure to meet each other.
This letter signed by Mao was valued at US$300,000 to US$500,000 at Sotheby’s in December 2019, but it is unknown whether the letter was ultimately sold.
Why did Mao and Zhuzhou write letters to these three Americans to congratulate them on Christmas and New Year? First, let’s talk about the background at that time.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the CCP stayed in the Yan’an area and took the opportunity to develop and grow. In 1936, after an interview in Yan’an, American journalist Edgar Snow wrote the book “Red Star Shines on China”, which had a wide impact domestically and internationally.
The CCP thus realized the importance of external propaganda. Since then, in order to cover up the CCP’s false anti-Japanese activities and actual expansion, enhance the CCP’s status, and win the sympathy and support of Western countries, especially the United States, the CCP took every opportunity to invite Westerners, including journalists, to visit Yan’an, portraying the so-called CCP as “incorruptible and incorruptible”. The superficial appearance of “people” is revealed in front of these people.
For example, in the winter of 1937, under the careful arrangement of Zhou Enlai, Evans Fordyce Carlson, an intelligence officer of the US Marine Corps and former deputy commander-in-chief of President Roosevelt’s Guard, visited Yan’an and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters in Shanxi. Mao Zedong “talked late into the night” with Carlson in Yan’an. After returning to the United States, Carlson introduced the situation of the CCP and Mao to Roosevelt.
There is also the American journalist Smedley, who is said to have an extraordinary relationship with Mao. He also published many articles promoting the CCP in the West, thus misleading the Western political circles and even the public’s impression of the CCP.
In 1939, Agnes Smedley was sent by the communist troops to the United Front of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. (Image source: public domain)
When the Anti-Japanese War was about to be won, in order to win the support of the United States, Mao stepped up his praise of the United States. On June 12, 1944, Mao delivered a speech to Chinese and foreign reporters. The “keyword” was to constantly talk about “democracy” and attribute the fundamental way to solve all problems in China to “democracy.” Mao said: “China has shortcomings, and they are very big shortcomings. This shortcoming, in a word, is the lack of democracy. The Chinese people need democracy very much, because only democracy can give strength to the war of resistance. China’s internal relations and external relations , can we get on track, win the war of resistance, and build a good country… Only with democratic unity can we defeat fascism and build a new China and a new world…”
At that time, Chongqing’s “Xinhua Daily” and Yan’an’s “Liberation Daily” also published a large number of editorials and comments praising the United States. For example, on July 4, 1944, the U.S. National Day, Xinhua Daily published an editorial passionately praising the United States with the title “U.S. National Day, the Great Struggle for Freedom and Democracy.”
The editorial connected Yan’an to the United States – “The democratic United States already has its companions, and Sun Yat-sen’s cause already has its successors, which are the Chinese Communist Party and other democratic forces. The work we Communists are doing now is It’s Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, etc. The work that has been done in the United States will definitely gain and has received the sympathy of the democratic United States. The United States is vigorously assisting China’s anti-Japanese war and democratic movement, which we are grateful for.” The editorial finally shouted: “7 Long live March 4th! Long live democratic America!”
At that time, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States and China jointly fought against Japan, Roosevelt, while supporting Chiang Kai-shek, also hoped that all political forces in China, especially the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, would unite to effectively carry out the war of resistance. Therefore, the United States decided to engage directly with the Chinese Communist Party.
From July 22, 1944 to March 1947, the US military sent an observation group to Yan’an, known as the “Dixie Mission.” The mission of this observation group is to examine “the strength, composition, distribution, equipment, training and combat capabilities of the Communist Party’s military forces” from all aspects, and to judge based on this whether the United States can obtain corresponding benefits if it supports the CCP. Team leader Bo Ruide was responsible for military intelligence, Xie Weisi was responsible for political analysis and reporting to the State Department, and Major Hemmer was one of the members of the Dixie Mission.
From the perspective of the CCP, this is an important diplomatic event, an important opportunity to expand exchanges with the United States and gain political and military support. Mao therefore attached great importance to the visit of the Dixie Mission and met with them many times. During the more than three months that Xie Weisi lived in Yan’an, he talked with Mao more than fifty times. Mao called him a “comrade-in-arms” and regarded the meeting as “the beginning of a united diplomatic front.” For example, on October 10, Mao clearly stated in his conversation with Xie Weisi: “The Communists are unwilling to risk friction with the United States, and therefore are willing to ‘step in step’ with U.S. policy.”
The “Party History Newsletter” edited by the Party History Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China also disclosed part of the conversation in 1983. Mao said: “Every American soldier in China should be a living advertisement for democracy. He should talk about democracy to every Chinese he meets. American officials should talk about democracy to Chinese officials. In short, the Chinese respect you Americans The ideal of democracy.”
On August 15, 1944, the “Liberation Daily” also published an editorial rewritten by Mao “Welcome the comrades of the US Army Observation Group!” 》. The editorial stated: “On China’s anti-Japanese battlefield, the United States also fought directly side by side with our people and became its closest comrade-in-arms. At this time of welcoming our friends from the US military observation group, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the US government, people, soldiers of the sea, army and air force and their President Roosevelt, a wise leader, expresses my heartfelt thanks.”
In the nearly three years of contact between the United States and the CCP, the Dixie Mission has established relatively close ties with the CCP’s top leaders. The report they were deceived into writing by the CCP and highly praised the CCP caused the U.S. top brass to misjudge the CCP. When dealing with affairs with China, the United States not only asked Chiang Kai-shek to unite with the CCP to resist Japan, as if the CCP’s failure to resist Japan was due to Chiang Kai-shek’s policies, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to negotiate peace with the CCP, the United States also provided weapons and equipment to the CCP, even after the Anti-Japanese War had just ended. On August 25, 1945, U.S. military aircraft urgently airlifted Deng Xiaoping, Lin Biao, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Nie Rongzhen and other CCP generals from Yan’an to the frontline headquarters in Northeast and North China, one day earlier than the U.S. airlifted Kuomintang advance personnel. This mistake by the United States paved the way for the Kuomintang’s defeat in the civil war.
Mao’s letter to Major Hemmer was written after the Christmas dinner held five months after the Dixie Mission arrived in Yan’an. At that time, the Americans invited many high-level officials of the Chinese Communist Party, including Mao, to attend and presented them with Christmas gifts during the banquet. In Yan’an, where supplies were extremely scarce, the Americans’ dinners and gifts obviously made Mao and others very happy, so there was this letter written by Mao himself.
As for General Hurley, he came to China in August 1944 as President Roosevelt’s special envoy. He met with Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in Chongqing and Yan’an. However, due to differences of opinion, the two parties did not reach any agreement.
General Wedemeyer succeeded Stilwell at the end of 1944 as the Allied Chief of Staff of the China Theater and Commander of the U.S. Forces in China, a position he held until March 1946. Compared with Stilwell, who wanted to arm the Chinese Communist Army to fight against Japan and repeatedly criticized the Nationalist Army as a piece of shit and the Chinese Communist Army as the real army, Wedemeyer was closer to Chiang Kai-shek. In his report to the President of the United States, he said that “the Chinese Communist Party is a devil, Chiang Kai-shek is an angel”, “the Chinese Communist Party does not protect the people against the Japanese”, etc.
For this reason, Wedemeyer became a “pro-Chiang faction” after returning to the United States. After the reform and opening up, the Chinese Communist Party officials invited him to visit China many times, but Wedemeyer declined them all because he felt that he had a moral responsibility towards Chiang Kai-shek.
The development of history also proves that Wedemeyer’s view is correct. Mao, Zhuzhou and others wishing Americans a happy Christmas and New Year are nothing more than a means of united front. After using the United States, the CCP used the so-called case of “Peking University girl Shen Chong was raped by U.S. troops” in December 1946 to set off a large-scale anti-American wave. Only then did the U.S. government realize that it had made a big mistake. Unfortunately, no matter how hard it tried, It is too late to support the Kuomintang. The U.S. government has been played by the CCP in this way.
After the CCP usurped power, it adopted a “one-sided” policy towards the Soviet Union, and there was no need to mention any foreign festivals. It was not until the reform and opening up of the Chinese Communist Party, especially after the millennium, that celebrating Christmas became a trend. This is why in 2010, Xi Jinping, then Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China, visited Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, 815 kilometers north of Helsinki, Finland, and took a photo with Santa Claus.
Xi once took a photo with Santa Claus, which at least on the surface seems to indicate that he has nothing against Christmas itself. Nowadays, the CCP is facing a formidable enemy on Christmas, which just reveals that the CCP is very afraid of all faiths and all gatherings of people, and behind this fear is its deep concern about losing political power and power. Even the leaders of the CCP and those within the CCP have felt this crisis. How far is the CCP from collapsing?
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