What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
After the Korean War, Peng Saidhuai said: "Gone are the days when Western colonists could seize a country for hundreds of years by erecting a few cannons on a coastline in the East." ”
This is the real battle for the founding of a nation, this is the energy that bursts out of the real rise of a nation.
Unlike us, after the Korean War, Americans as a whole sank into depression.
Before Panmunjom signed the armistice, the American general had said with frustration: I am the first American general to sign an armistice without victory.
Marshall, then U.S. Defense Secretary, said: "The myth has been shattered, and the United States is not a great power that people think it is." ”
The impact of the Korean War has not only benefited the country, but even the overseas Chinese living overseas have been respected by foreigners.
Lee Kuan Yew once said in his memoirs: After the Korean War, as an Asian, I only straightened my waist when I was in England, and before the Korean War, I traveled in Europe, and people often discriminated against the Chinese, but after China sent troops to Korea and won successive victories, the Customs officers in Western Europe were in awe when they saw the Chinese, and from then on I began to seriously learn Chinese.
Coincidentally, the memories of another overseas Chinese are very similar to Lee Kuan Yew, a long-retired Kuomintang veteran who was riding a bus in a small country in the Americas, and when a local learned that he was a Chinese, he shouted to the people in the car: Look, this is Chinese! Just yesterday, our arrogant neighbor signed the Korean Armistice, and the invincible Yankees were defeated by the same Chinese as this gentleman, and a great Chinese stood in front of us! ”
So the whole car stood up and applauded, and shook hands with the veterans. At that moment, the veteran's inner world was strongly shaken.
This is a real eyebrow raising, recalling the experience of overseas Chinese before, He once had this kind of treatment.
Since then, he began to pay attention to and miss his homeland, resolutely returned to the motherland after the reform and opening up, and wrote down this unforgettable past in his memoirs.
According to the memoirs of a captured volunteer soldier, he was interrogated by a Chinese-American, and in the absence of the American during the interrogation, the Chinese-American sincerely said to the soldier: Whether it is "aggression" or not, (because he and the volunteer soldiers debated whether China "invaded" Korea during the interrogation), China can go out of the country and fight with the United Nations army in this way, which makes me a Chinese proud, and now the Americans are more polite to us than before. Winning China seems to be a matter of course, that is, it is much better than the old man who fled to the island.
This is the impact of the Korean War, which has impressed the world with China. This battle directly laid the foundation for our position as a great power. Moreover, China's army has become the world's recognized world number one.
In 1962, after the outbreak of conflict between China and India, the former "United Nations Army" French General Hill said:
Where the Indian Army is the first opponent of the World Army and the Chinese Liberation Army. Judging from the many foreign wars before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, I believe that the quality of the Chinese Army's individual soldiers exceeds that of the German Army, and it is the first in the world.
It was the Korean War that not only brought out dignity, but also the self-confidence of the nation and the respect of its opponents.
As for whether to send troops, there are still people who say that they should not send troops, but in fact, those who should not send troops have not taken a long-term view, but the United States has seen this very thoroughly.
The famous American writer John Tolan pointed out in "The Long Battle": "The Korean War was a war imposed by the United States on the heads of Chinese people, and it broke out under the circumstances of the Armed Intervention of the United States in the Korean Civil War and a serious threat to China's national security. China's invasion of Korea was motivated by national interests and was a last resort. If the Soviet Union invaded Mexico, the United States would decide to send troops within 5 minutes."
A foreigner has a thorough understanding of this problem, how can anyone still be obsessed?
The Korean War illustrates a truth, that is, dignity is played, and our leader once said: "One punch is thrown, so as not to have a hundred punches." When we resist US aggression and aid Korea, we are defending our homeland and defending our country. ”
Fifty years before the Korean War, the Eight-Nation Alliance of 20,000 people was able to drive straight into the capital, and fifty years later, the volunteer army faced the Sixteen-Nation Alliance and fought the national prestige.
After the Korean War, Taiwanese newspapers even shouted to the Americans happily: "Now the Americans no longer say that the Nationalist army will not fight." ”
In 1950, China warned the United States not to cross 38 degrees north latitude, but the United States did not listen.
In 1965, China warned the United States not to cross 17 degrees north latitude, and the United States complied.
With this article, I would like to pay tribute to the heroes of the volunteer army, who are immortal! It is precisely because of your efforts that we have a happy life today.