Three minutes to talk about culture
From November 1927 to March 1928, the Hailufeng Soviet Revolution led by Peng Pai was also dominated by "burningism". On November 28, at the Haifeng Workers' and Peasants' Congress, Liu Qinxi, a representative of the Dongjiang Revolutionary Committee, made a speech and agitated: "Because all land is natural and public, not produced by the big landlords themselves, all large and medium-sized landlords and local tyrants and shoddy gentry should kill them cleanly and return the land to the peasants."And kill all the witches, monks, and all the useless people in the villageOnly then can it be said that the feudal forces were purged. (Hailufeng Revolutionary Base, p. 32). Yang Wang, a representative of the Haifeng County Party Committee, delivered a speech at the meeting: "The peasants of Hailufeng who have class consciousness and the peasants who have the experience and lessons of class struggle have shown their thorough revolutionary nature in the current uprising and after the uprising. They did not hesitate to hunt down the gentry landlords and profiteers everywhere. They completely disemboweled the heads of these gentry and landlords from a class point of view, and all the opposition elements were unceremoniously killed on the spot, without the slightest emotion, as the standard of life and death. (Lufeng Revolutionary Base, p. 42).
The revolutionary leaders, in order to unleash the masses, declared: "The work of the landlords is very easy to do. We decided that the peasants in the districts and townships would do it themselves, kill them on the spot, not escort them, confiscate all their property, and burn down all their houses. Most of the peasants in Haifeng's various districts were able to do this work very bravely in their own villages, and about 500 landlords were killed in the county, and some of them were used to cut off their heads and chests. (Hailufeng Revolutionary Base, p. 65).
According to the revolutionary leaders, "the experience of the struggles has made the Party members and the masses deeply aware that it is better to be cruel to the counter-revolution than to tolerate it in the slightest." Therefore, it is accurateThe masses are free to kill people, and killing people is the most important work of the insurrection”。"It's better to kill the wrong one than to slip through the net!This is a constant warning to political parties and comrades at all levels. They rejoiced, because "some of the reactionary villages were burned in whole villages, because this was demanded by the masses, and the masses were particularly enthusiastic when the counter-revolutionary villages or houses were burned." (Hailufeng Base Area, p. 102). In January 1928, the Haifeng County Soviet executed 1,922 "reactionaries", "most of whom were killed by the Red Guards or by peasant and workers' women" (Hailufeng Revolutionary Base Area, p. 156).