"With the youth of me, create the family of youth, the country of youth, the nation of youth, the human beings of youth, the universe of purification, and the endless life of happiness."
A hundred years ago, Li Dazhao wrote the article "Youth", in which he issued a powerful cry, shouted out the strongest voice of that era, and awakened countless young people with patriotic hearts and youthful enthusiasm.
Now that a hundred years have passed, the motherland that Li Dazhao loved and fought for all his life has long since changed its appearance and become a socialist power with a new look, and the Marxism he worked hard to promote has also blossomed into a beautiful flower on the land of China.
In order to awaken the numb people and save the motherland in the depths of the water, the patriotic intellectuals led by Li Dazhao constantly ran and shouted, sacrificed their sweat, youth, blood and even their lives, and explored a new way out for China, but they fell into the dark yesterday forever.
In 1927, Li Dazhao was hanged by the warlord and brutally killed, which caused countless people to be indignant.
The execution lasted 40 minutes, and what happened in that long 40 minutes was not known until 24 years later.
Anger the warlords
Li Dazhao was one of the leaders of the New Culture Movement and a pioneer of the communist movement in China, and he was the first pioneer to spread Marxism on the land of China.
After the outbreak of the October Revolution in Russia, Marxism began to gradually enter the vision of Chinese intellectuals and people of insight, and at that time many patriotic people in the country were in a state of confusion, because the bourgeois doctrines and ideas that had always been highly respected failed to bring real democracy and freedom to China, so Marxism, which led the poor masses in Russia to victory, aroused their strong interest.
After coming into contact with Marxism, Li Dazhao published a number of articles to study and introduce this theory of doctrine, and excitedly predicted that "if you look at the global sphere of the future, it will be a world of red flags." Since then, more and more progressive people have begun to accept this theory, and the Communist Party of China has gradually been established.
At the beginning of its founding, the Communist Party of China established its original intention and mission, that is, to seek happiness for the people and rejuvenation for the nation, and such a mass line was contrary to the warlords who rode on the heads of the people at that time to make a blessing, so the newborn Communist Party gradually became jealous of the warlords, and Li Dazhao, as the leader, became a thorn in their eyes.
In addition to the fact that Li Dazhao was the founder and leader of our party, there was another very important reason why he would be the target of the warlords, that is, his influence among the toiling masses was too great, so they tried their best to get rid of Li Dazhao.
Arrested and imprisoned
In 1927, Zhang Zuolin, known as the "King of the Northeast," ordered the arrest of Li Dazhao, along with many other underground party members who were imprisoned and waited for the butcher knife to fall over his head.
From the moment of his arrest, Li Dazhao knew what fate awaited him, but he never feared, nor did he ever think of retreating, and even when faced with comrades sent by the organization to rescue him, he firmly chose to refuse, which can be said to be single-mindedly dying.
In Li Dazhao's view, revolution and struggle are bound to have bloodshed and sacrifice, and only in this way can they awaken more people and let them realize how cruel the real world really is and how severe the situation in China has reached, so he is willing to exchange his sacrifices for more revolutionary forces.
After Zhang Zuolin arrested Li Dazhao, he wanted to execute him at the first time, but because of Li Dazhao's identity and influence, this decision was blocked many times, and after learning the news of his arrest, the forces of all sides wrote to block Zhang Zuolin, especially teachers and students of many colleges and universities in Beijing, who have been putting pressure on Zhang Zuolin in various ways and actively rescued Li Dazhao.
In this way, Zhang Zuolin was tantamount to being put on the fire and roasted, he did not expect that he was just catching a Li Dazhao, and actually became the one who was put on the fire, and suddenly became passive.
Therefore, the dissatisfaction and resentment in his heart for Li Dazhao also became stronger.
Li Dazhao was tortured in prison, but did not reveal any information that the enemy wanted to know, and even though he was seriously injured, he insisted on encouraging others in prison and strengthening their revolutionary beliefs, which made the enemy's interrogation work more difficult.
Brutal means
After much persuasion and obstruction, Zhang Zuolin finally issued a decisive decree at the instigation of Chiang Kai-shek, and it was in Beijing on April 28, 1927
Li Dazhao was executed by hanging
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On the day of the execution, Li Dazhao was shaved his hair, and although he endured inhuman treatment for a long time, he still showed a good mental state, looking at the students and colleagues with tears in their eyes outside the prison cart, and calmly ran to the execution site.
According to the data,
At that time, Li Dazhao's execution time was as long as 40 minutes
Why he endured such a long ordeal before his death remained a mystery until much later, until 24 years after his death, when the truth behind it was revealed.
After Li Dazhao was arrested, he knew his fate, and he put forward a condition to Zhang Zuolin, that is, he did not want to be shot, so in the end Zhang Zuolin decided to hang him, but this cruel warlord felt that hanging was difficult to understand the resentment in his heart.
He was therefore ordered to be executed by the "Three Hangings".
The so-called "three hangings execution method" is an extremely cruel method, different from ordinary hanging directly strangling people, this method is to hang people on the torture device and hang it in mid-air, wait until the person is dying, then put it down, let people gradually recover consciousness, and then be put on the torture device again, repeat the process, so that the executed person experiences the despair of dying many times.
Such a method was so cruel that it was heinous, and Li Dazhao experienced a long torture of up to 40 minutes and finally died heroically.
brief summary:
At such a special moment, the centenary of the May Fourth Movement has just passed, and Li Dazhao has also met the audience again on the screen many times last year, and under the excellent acting skills of the actors, we can glimpse the short and brilliant life of this excellent Communist Party pioneer, and let more and more young people in the new era be influenced by his thoughts and spirit.
It is precisely because of generations of people like Li Dazhao who sacrificed their lives and forgot their deaths for revolution and faith, regardless of their predecessors, that we can usher in such a new and beautiful era today, no matter what kind of situation we are in, we should always remember them.