Su Yu was born in Huitong, Hunan, and his military career can be described as a legend. His performance during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation was very good, and he was the first of China's top ten generals, and his life can be described as ups and downs.
In 1958, the ** Military Commission held a meeting to criticize Su Yu, then chief of the general staff of the whole army, in which Su Yu was accused of having serious individualistic tendencies, liking to complain, and opposing the leadership, so why did he have this evaluation?
Back in 1952, Su Yu served as the deputy chief of general staff of the whole army, and Nie Shuai served as the chief of the general staff. It stands to reason that Nie Shuai's position is Su Yu's top boss, but when he praised him many times, he only named Su Yu, and did not mention the name of the "direct" leader, which planted the seeds of doubt in Nie Shuai's heart: Could it be that Su Yu sued me to his superiors?
After another two years, as the deputy chief of staff, Su Yu became the chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army, and Nie Shuai, who had served as acting chief of staff for many years, was demoted, which made Nie, who had been looking forward to turning positive for many years, even more convinced that Su Yu was a conspirator.
At the subsequent criticism meeting, due to the protection of Marshal ***, Su Yu was only removed from the post of commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army, and then Ye Shuai also transferred Su Yu to the Academy of Military Sciences managed by himself to serve as vice president. In this position, far from the center of the power vortex, Su Yu began to focus on the study of military scholarship, and made great contributions to the construction of New China later.
Although Su Yu was not affected by the subsequent storm, as a famous general who cherishes feathers, he cherishes his reputation very much, so he has always hoped that the organization can give him a chance to re-examine, so that he can correct and rehabilitate himself.
In 1978, the ** Military Commission implemented the policy of "putting things in order", although Su Yu was not among the army cadres who were affected in the sixties, Ye Shuai was very concerned about him, so he gave Su Yu a chance to explain the situation to the organization. With ***, the vice chairman of the Military Commission, standing up to uphold justice and being the "Dinghai God Needle", Su Yu felt that he had hope of being rehabilitated.
So, he began to look for his comrades-in-arms who were critical of him, because *** had died in 1974, Su Yu decided to visit another general*** He hoped to have an open and honest chat with Nie Shuai, solve the misunderstanding of the year, and strive to get Nie Shuai's support and understanding in the restoration of his reputation.
At this time, Su Yu was over seventy years old, and Nie Shuai had also entered his 80s. After Su Yu found Nie Shuai, he said sincerely: Now that the problems of many old comrades have been solved, I also plan to explain my things back then to **, and I hope that old comrades-in-arms can help me. Nie Shuai felt the sincerity of Su Yu's words, he nodded and said: It was the environment back then that caused a certain misunderstanding between everyone.
Nie Shuai's words were actually a signal of goodwill to Su Yu, hearing that Su Yu put down a big stone in his heart, and then explained to Nie Shuai: I do have some problems that have caused so many misunderstandings. After the two finished talking, Nie Shuai promised that he would definitely sign Su Yu's rehabilitation certificate report and speak to ** on his behalf to restore his reputation, which made Su Yu very moved in his heart.
But even though Nie Shuai had signed the speech, Su Yu's rehabilitation document was delayed until 1994, when both of them had already died, so why did it delay for so long?
It turned out that because these original materials of rehabilitation were not really handed over to the core of the ** leadership, this report was found in his briefcase in 1986 when Gan Weihan, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Military Commission, passed away, and the guards found it in his briefcase, and since then Su Yu's rehabilitation has begun to be done, and his reputation has really recovered after 8 years.
As for which link has greater resistance, it is impossible to find out now. Fortunately, Su Yu, the "god of war" of the People's Liberation Army, eventually restored his reputation.