In 2013, two editors of a magazine sued Guo Songmin for violating their right to reputation (calling them dogs* when defending the reputation of the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain), which caused Guo Songmin to arbitrarily distort the heroic deeds of the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain in the name of exploring details in an article of this magazine, such as "jumping off a cliff should be fake", "they stole the turnips of the masses", "the five people themselves are from rogue origins" and so on. Guo Songmin, who came from the military, could not bear to read it, and said in his message that the author of the article and the editor of the magazine were raised by dogs. The two believed that Guo Songmin had violated his right to reputation and appealed to the court, demanding that Guo Songmin apologize and compensate 10,000 yuan. However, the Haidian District Court ruled in favor of Guo Songmin after trial.
[People's Court Daily's Circular on the Trial of this Case]
This should be a landmark victory against historical nihilism in recent years. I don't know when it began, there is a very bad sign on the Internet, some people in the name of scientific research, rational analysis, wantonly smear, slander, spoof and joke about the heroes who heroically sacrificed their lives for the country, such as the above mentioned five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain, a magazine published an article, saying that after careful investigation, the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain actually did not jump off the cliff, but fled; in the process, they also pulled out the radish of the masses to quench their thirst, and said that the five people were originally born of exile, and it is not surprising that such a situation occurred, and so on.
For another example, an article used seemingly "scientifically rigorous" data to say: "The projectile kinetic energy of the US military M1917 light machine gun is 5,000 joules, and Huang Jiguang's body is 7 bullets, absorbing 35,000 joules of kinetic energy, which is enough to break a boulder, so Huang Jiguang's blocking of the gun hole is definitely fake." Li Jide, who witnessed Huang Jiguang's sacrifice, was in tears of anger, he said: "I saw (his) sacrifice with my own eyes, how can it be fake, this is to smear our heroes!" ”
[Old Man Li Jide hugged Huang Jiguang's bronze statue and cried bitterly]
In addition to this, there are so-called articles from a physiological and medical point of view, analyzing that Qiu Shaoyun could not be motionless in the fire, because this violated physiological common sense. Other strange theories such as Liu Hulan is a whistleblower, Dong Cunrui is a regional black, Lei Feng is engaged in sister-brother love, Lin Zexu is a national sinner, and Yue Fei is a bully landlord, etc., again and again refreshing people's cognitive bottom line.
These strange theories are either deliberately done by hostile forces outside the country or the emotional catharsis of some people, but they all have one thing in common, that is, to destroy the faith of young people by smearing history and denigrating heroes. These strange theories do not respect academic norms, nor do they have any real evidence, but only rely on the author's full malice, they open their mouths, deny our history, and blacken our heroes.
[While smearing, they don't forget to whitewash the villain]
These shameless acts will naturally arouse public indignation, such as Guo Songmin, who stepped forward and angrily rebuked unscrupulous editors and authors. However, we should pay attention to the fact that smearing and slandering are easy to arouse people's vigilance and be easily discovered in historical nihilism, but the other operations of these people are easy to be ignored by people, and the harm it brings is no less than the former, or even worse than the former, that is, in the name of "humanization", some negative characters are reshaped, whitewashed, and subverted.
As I mentioned in my previous article, in order to wash Huang Shiren, the media person Lao Liang slandered Yang Bailao as Lao Lai, saying that huang Shiren's family was benevolent, charitable, helping the poor and the poor, and benefiting the township, which was really a well-known moral model. Another well-known media personality, Teacher Dwarf, openly called the landlord Liu Wencai a good man in the program because he donated a school; Ma Bufang was a saint because he planted trees; Zhang Lingfu was a famous general, because he would not hesitate to kill his wife in order to join the army, and even Du Yuesheng, the leader of the big rogues, was put on the halo of a saint.
【Crowds of emotions to criticize landlords】
But what about the facts? You only saw Liu Wencai build a school, but you didn't see him as the commander-in-chief of the suppression, his hands stained with the blood of revolutionary soldiers and civilians? You only saw Ma Bufang planting trees, but you didn't see him bury thousands of Red Army soldiers alive overnight? Zhang Lingfu's evil deeds of killing his wife are also worthy of praise? Not to mention that he could not defeat the Red Army, so he cut out the ancestral graves of the Red Army generals and exposed the atrocities in the wilderness. As for Du Yuesheng, even he can become a saint, but what about the thousands of revolutionary martyrs who threw their heads and spilled their blood for the sake of new China? What were the volunteers who repelled the U.S. military with their flesh and blood in Korea?
The historical homecoming groups stretched out two poisonous branches, one responsible for smearing and one responsible for whitewashing. For the former one, the state has struck hard and issued a series of laws and regulations to protect our heroes and history and severely punish those who spread rumors. However, for the latter one, there is no active and effective response at present.
【Peasants criticizing landlords】
The purpose of the historical homecoming groups is only one, that is, to destroy the faith of the younger generation, and for this purpose they will do whatever it takes, through their series of operations, so that many young people have a gap between themselves and the real history, no longer worshiping and believing in the heroes who have emerged from suffering, but believing that the objects of our revolution were "good people", "good people", and "saints", so that cognition has become confused and confused.
As Guo Songmin said on Weibo: The case will eventually be closed, but the struggle against historical nihilism will not end. It is urgent to crack down on the historical homecoming regiment!