After the outbreak of the unrest, Beijing's student population was quickly affected, and a large number of "left-leaning" young people took to the streets and began to engage in so-called "revolutionary activities" in various ways. Among them, there are 5 student representatives who are the most active and famous, known as the "Five Leaders", in this issue, we will focus on Wang Dabin among these 5 people, and see how he rises and falls with the tide of the times.
Wang Dabin's early experience was very inspiring, he was born in a poor area, his family's economic conditions were very poor, and even the problem of food and clothing was difficult to solve. But even so, his parents still tried to borrow money for Wang Dabin to study, hoping that he could change his fate through knowledge and live a good life in the future. Wang Dabin did not dare to live up to the expectations of his parents, he studied hard in school, seized all the time to study, and he was among the best in every exam, and was recognized as an excellent student.
At the age of 18, Wang Dabin was successfully admitted to a university in Beijing and became a glorious college student. At that time, college students were the pride of the sky, and there was a state subsidy when they were studying, so they didn't have to worry about living expenses at all, and they would be assigned jobs after graduation, so they didn't have to worry about employment at all. If Wang Dabin can complete his studies step by step, his future prospects will be limitless. But what people never expected was that in his senior year, turmoil suddenly broke out, and his fate also changed.
Since the middle of 1966, Beijing's major colleges and universities have set up a number of student-oriented groups, Wang Dabin's school is no exception, several cadres of the student union took the lead in organizing a club called "Dongfanghong", and later, with the intensification of the turmoil, the club also grew stronger, and the membership once expanded to hundreds of people. In the same year, Wang Dabin joined the club and soon became a key member of the club with his extraordinary courage.
In November 1966, Wang Dabin made an earth-shattering event, that is, he took more than a dozen students with blood and strength to break into the Department of Geology and snatch some confidential files. Some people think that Wang Dabin's move is like a crime and should be severely punished, but some ill-intentioned people deliberately excuse Wang Dabin, claiming that everything he did was for the "revolution" and to defend ***
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the reason why the ill-intentioned person exonerated Wang Dabin was to win him over. Wang Dabin is fashionable and young, lacks experience in social life, and does not understand the stakes involved, in the face of the olive branch thrown by those with ill intentions, he readily accepts it, and is willing to convey benefits to each other. Soon after, with the support of ill-intentioned people, Wang Dabin became the leader of the "Dongfanghong" club and became famous for a while.
Wang Dabin was greatly encouraged by this, and in order to further gain political resources, Wang Dabin made even more radical moves. On a winter night, he rushed from Beijing to Chengdu with a group of people, broke into Mr. Peng's residence, and pulled Mr. Peng out for criticism. Since then, the country has become more and more chaotic, the class struggle has intensified, and many veteran comrades have been innocently implicated, imprisoned, or dismissed from their posts.
When the time came to 1968, Wang Dabin's words and deeds became more and more excessive, and he fanned the flames and instigated confrontation everywhere, making the entire city of Beijing unpeaceful. After hearing the news, he instructed Wang Dabin to be appropriately "beaten" so as not to "fall deeper and deeper". * Immediately dismissed Wang Dabin from his post and arranged for him to work as an intern worker in a factory in Sichuan. Before leaving, ** repeatedly told Wang Dabin not to participate in any struggle, and to work and live in a down-to-earth manner, so as not to cause extraneous branches.
But Wang Dabin took ***'s words as "deaf ears", and he started his "old business" again not long after he arrived in Sichuan, and as a result, a serious political incident occurred. ** He was immediately sent from Sichuan back to Beijing for examination, and he was immediately expelled from the party. After the turmoil ended, with the approval of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Wang Dabin was formally arrested, and his file was immediately entered into judicial proceedings for review by the prosecutor.
In 1983, the Supreme People's Procuratorate characterized a series of previous acts of Wang Dabin, who did make many mistakes during the turbulent period, but did not prosecute him because of his negative impact on society. In the end, Wang Dabin was acquitted, and after regaining his freedom, he returned to his hometown in Sichuan to settle down, and has been living a low-key life in his later years.
Once, he suddenly told his wife that the resolution of the year was correct, but there was a deviation in the implementation of the administrative department, which caused a series of irreparable situations. In 2019, Wang Dabin had a heart attack and died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 78.