Valuable historic footage of the CCP’s Land Reform (1949-1953). This is how it was done:
- Send out a “work team” to villages to “help” the peasants to understand that exploitation of the rich was the root of their poverty and suffering. (DEI training?)
- Mobilize the poor
- Coach them on how to “tell their bitterness” (诉苦 or lived experience) against the landlords
- Hold “ struggle sessions” to denounce the landlords as the “enemy of the people”. Note there were a lot of women activists.
- Let the people decide the punishment. In the video the people spoke: execution!
- Confiscate the land from the landlords and give it to the poor
Happy ending for the poor?
Not so fast. In 1958 all the land was taken back by the state through collectivization. Between 1959-1962, up to 50 million perished during the Great Famine.
This is a story of Communist dream turned into hellish nightmare. And history rhymes, doesn’t it?
link to source with short video
China followed a path to totalitarian control similar to the Soviet Union and other communist regimes. In Russia, Bolsheviks went into villages with the goal of killing a predetermined percentage (10-15% or more) of their populations. This was done to wipe out natural leaders in order to eliminate all viable opposition. These public murders also terrorized the people who were not killed. In Russia, the mass murderers were primarily non-Russians who hated Russians and were envious of them. In China, the mass murderers were typically Chinese from other parts of China who were filled with ideological hatred. Throughout the West, we are seeing a softer version of this playing out today. ABN
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