The "traitors" during the anti-Japanese period referred to those who betrayed the interests of the nation and defected to the Japanese army. According to incomplete statistics, during the 14 years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were about one million traitors across the country, who either worked in the puppet regime or directly served the Japanese army. Big traitors such as Wang Jingwei, Zhou Fohai, Chen Gongbo, etc., and countless small traitors are all over the country. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, most of the big traitors were severely punished, but where did those unknown little traitors go?
Under the tragic situation of the modern semi-colonies, two completely different ideological tendencies gradually formed in China: one was to rise up and fight, represent the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, and pursue independence, equality, and freedom;On the other hand, there are capitulationists, slavery, a minority who deviate from the interests of the nation as a whole for the sake of their own personal, family, and group interests, and they are outright national scum. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the aggression of Japanese imperialism promoted a new trend of thought in modern Chinese nationalism and promoted the awakening and struggle of the Chinese nation. At the same time, many traitors appeared in the occupied areas, and these traitors did not hesitate to seek glory during the occupation of the Japanese army, harming the villagers and causing huge losses to the country and the nation.
In August 1945, the Chinese finally won the War of Resistance Against Japan, drove out the Japanese invaders, and some war criminals were duly punished. Domestic calls for punishing traitors and traitors are also rising one after another. As early as the white-hot stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Communist Party of China and the anti-Japanese base areas under its leadership not only bravely resisted the Japanese invaders, but also fought against traitors and traitor groups. On April 11, 1944, "Xinhua**" published a series of progressive articles, calling on the Kuomintang ** to formulate a decree to punish traitors as soon as possible.
After Japan announced its surrender, Xinhua ** successively published relevant articles, which listed in detail the names of traitors and evidence of collaborating with the enemy in various anti-Japanese base areas, and called on the people of the whole country to report and expose traitors. The reason why our party took this move was that during World War II, Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang ** were nominally the supreme commander of the Chinese theater of operations and the laws enacted by the "legitimate" Kuomintang ** became an important basis for punishing traitors and lackeys in wartime. According to records, from August 1945 to October 1945, the Kuomintang only captured more than 200 traitors. This number is insignificant in the context of the emergence of millions of traitors across the country.
This shows that for a period of time after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang gave priority to using a large number of traitors and puppet armies to hold the territory of the occupied areas in the southeast, regardless of the people's demand for punishment of traitors. Later, under pressure from all sides, the Kuomintang finally put the issue of punishing traitors on the agenda and promulgated a number of laws and regulations on the punishment of traitors. The most important of these are the Regulations on the Handling of Cases of Traitors, promulgated in November 1945, and the Regulations on the Punishment of Traitors, issued on 6 December 1945. These two laws on the punishment of adultery stipulate in detail the manner in which those who collaborate with the enemy during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and provide relevant judicial interpretations. At this stage, the hatred of the people of the whole country for the traitor made them actively participate in the accusation of the traitor.
In just two weeks, the Kuomintang set up a chairman's office in Beijing to handle cases of people's statements, and in just two weeks, more than 2,000 letters of accusation were received from the public, most of which were reports from the people denouncing the names and whereabouts of some traitors they knew. Some traitors fled abroad, but with the full cooperation and support of our party, the Kuomintang issued a wanted warrant for the arrest of traitors at home and abroad, and applied to Western countries for the extradition of traitors. In December 1945, the Military Administration arrested more than 4,600 traitors in Beijing and Tianjin in just one month.
In the spring of 1946, local high courts began to try traitors, such as the Jiangsu High Court, which tried a group of traitors such as Chen Gongbo and Chu MinyiThe Kuomintang Capital High Court tried Wang Yintai, Liu Yushu and other traitors in North China. Before 1949, due to the complexity of the cases, it was difficult to accurately count the number of legal punishments received by traitors. According to the information currently known, Hebei Province alone received more than 2,200 cases of traitor in the two years from January 1946 to March 1948.
In more than 20 provinces across the country, at least 60,000 traitors have been punished by law, most of them have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than five years, and some have been sentenced to life imprisonment or death, and most of the traitors' property and real estate have also been confiscated. By the end of the Liberation War in 1949, local courts tried the traitors who had been arrested and prosecuted, except for those who were wanted but had not yet been brought to justice. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people re-exercised control over the remaining traitors and traitor groups, carried out compulsory reform and education on them, and some were re-tried and some were re-confiscated.
Especially in the later suppression of the counter-revolutionary movement, the people ** carried out a just trial of a group of traitors who "slipped through the net". Public security officers and police officers also went to the northwest, southwest, Yunnan, Guizhou, and other places to arrest traitors and Kuomintang bandits, and achieved remarkable results. Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, these national scum were finally punished as they deserved. Some people may ask: During the Liberation War, only more than 60,000 of the millions of traitors were punished by the law, and the others went to **In fact, there were different types of traitors during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, including traitors who provided intelligence or led the way for the Japanese, and "economic traitors" who were responsible for managing local land taxes. What's even more interesting is that most of the traitors end up being cannon fodder for the puppet army.
Since the puppet army is mostly composed of national ** regular army or local teams, many traitors use resources and contacts to become "regular army" when they have a premonition that Japan is about to surrender. By the time of the Liberation War, these national scum who had turned from traitors to ** turned into open confrontation with the PLA. Therefore, when the Nanjing Kuomintang vigorously pursued traitors throughout the country, they could not take action against their own army, because hundreds of thousands of traitors had become a "regular" Kuomintang and Communist Party during the civil war, and the new Seventh Route Army, the New Tenth Route Army, the New Eleventh Route Army, and the New Twenty-second Army established within the Kuomintang were mostly composed of puppet armies and traitors.
However, at the end of 1947, the Kuomintang Ministry of Defense began to support these original "regular troops", because many traitors and puppet Kuomintang troops surrendered to the uprising, and after the transformation of the Communist Party, they ushered in a new life and became a new people's army. ** often said: "Be a man and don't go over old accounts", since they have abandoned their mistakes, the people will not embarrass them. However, some national scum who have never woken up will forever be permanently judged by the Chinese people politically and morally, and will be despised by all Chinese people.