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Although things are all developing and changing, especially the road forward of the revolution, they are all tortuous and complicated. Just like the development path of our Party, because it was restricted to a certain extent in certain specific periods, and under the wrong leadership, some detours were taken, and one of the most important historical events was that the Fifth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" of the Red Army ended in failure, and finally the Red Army was forced to move.
Later, in 1935, the Zunyi Conference corrected the previous erroneous leadership of Li De and Bogu, and granted the supreme command to Zhang Wentian.
A revolutionary with a literati heart
Zhang Wentian, born in 1900 in Nanhui, Shanghai, to a peasant family, in his youth, witnessed China's internal and external troubles and wanted to find a way to save the country. After the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, he actively participated in the revolutionary movement and embarked on the road of resisting the atrocities of Japanese imperialism. He has loved literature since he was a child, hoping to use his pen and words to awaken the increasingly numb soul of the Chinese people.
In 1920, when Chinese youth set off a wave of going abroad, they all hoped to learn the scientific and cultural knowledge of Western developed countries and then come back to build a better motherland. Zhang Wentian also joined them and crossed the east to Japan.
In Japan, while teaching himself Japanese, he read various books, and at the same time, he had close contacts with literary youth such as Tian Han, which affected his determination to learn from literature in the future.
Later, when he returned to China from Japan, he began to have a strong interest in Chinese and foreign literary scholars, he began to read the articles of Tolstoy, Tagore, Russell and others, and began to translate Tolstoy's literary masterpieces, which were later published and caused great repercussions in the entire literary world.
A year later, Mr. Zhang went to the United States to study work-study, where he was fluent in English and spent a lot of time every day reading various literary works in the library of the University of California, Berkeley, while also working as an editor for the Datong Morning Post, a newspaper in the Overseas Chinese Chinese in San Francisco.
During this time in the United States, he translated and commented heavily on foreign literary masterpieces, translating about 500,000 words in less than 3 years.
Unlike other mainland leaders, Zhang Wentian was a man of letters, fluent in English and Japanese, with a deep cultural background, and hoped to work related to culture and education, which also laid the foundation for his later choices.
Walk from behind the scenes to the front of the stage
Later, Zhang Wentian went to the Soviet Union to study and work, and the experience of studying abroad many times broadened his horizons, and at the same time, he could look at various things with a more advanced and dialectical vision. In 1930, Zhang Wentian returned from the Soviet Union and was soon reused as head of the Central Propaganda Department. As his personal talents continued to be unleashed, so did his position in the party.
Later, he became the second most important person in the central government at the time, second only to Bogu. In 1933, he retreated to Yan'an with the Red Army, and witnessed the wrong decisions made by Bogu in many aspects, carrying out the wrong line, causing great losses to the Red Army, and he also had many doubts.
After the Departure of the Long March, he and the first generation of mainland leaders came together, and their ideas influenced each other, thus forming a "three-man regiment of the central team" that opposed the erroneous leadership of Li De and Bogu. In Zhang Wentian's own words, "the material foundation was laid for the great victory of the Zunyi Conference." This also laid the foundation for a later reversal of the situation.
After the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, the Red Army suffered heavy losses, and its number fell from more than 80,000 at its peak to only more than 30,000 people, but at that time Bogu and Li De still insisted on marching north to join the Red Second and Sixth Fronts. At the critical moment, Zhang Wentian stepped forward and turned the tide, stopped their wrong decision, avoided another major casualty, and laid a solid foundation for the Red Army to be able to successfully launch a counterattack afterwards.
Comrade Zhang Wentian is a proletarian revolutionary fighter with firm convictions, and although he has been engaged in civilian work for a long time, he has a deep understanding of the party's principles and policies and subsequent development. At critical moments, it is very difficult for him to recognize the situation, analyze the current situation, and make the right decisions.
Back in the background again
After this incident, Zhang Wentian clearly realized that if he wanted to win the victory of the revolution, he still needed the chairman to come out.
Under his vigorous impetus, in 1935, the historic Zunyi Conference was held, at which he made a report criticizing the wrong leadership in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" and the Long March, and the spearhead was directed at Bogu and Li De. Subsequently, the correct opinion prevailed in the conference, and Zhang Wentian was elected as the general manager and took over Bogu's position.
After gaining supreme command, he very much supported the chairman's military leadership position, ensuring the smooth arrival of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi and achieving a crucial victory in the Long March. However, he did not rejoice in the achievements, but actively let xian. In 1938, he ceased to be the head of the army and turned to military research, which he was better at.
He has always had great respect for the Chairman, but he has never been blind, has independent opinions and is willing to continue to explore. After leaving the leadership position, he felt that he lacked experience, so he went to the countryside to investigate and inspect, and later, he put forward a vision of making the peasants rich in production, although it was impossible to achieve in the social environment at that time, but now it is still a very far-sighted idea.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Wentian transferred to the diplomatic service, later served as China's ambassador to the Soviet Union, and later appointed vice minister of foreign affairs. He has been working diligently in his own post and has made his own contributions to maintaining peace and stability in China's diplomacy.
He was an upright man, dared to do what he said, and even though he was treated unfairly, he still had hope for the motherland. In the 1960s and 1970s, during that well-known movement, he was persecuted for some reason, died of illness at the age of 76, and was later rehabilitated to all his reputation.
brief summary:
Throughout his life, there have been brilliant and lonely, it was he who insisted on correcting mistakes at the Zunyi Conference and took the Red Army team on the right path; it was also he, after gaining the supreme command, did not lose himself, but took the initiative to let xian play his light and heat in a post more suitable for him. He was a staunch proletarian fighter, and he was also a representative of thousands of outstanding Communists, and it was precisely because of their selfless dedication that we now have a better life. History is unforgettable, and their deeds deserve to be remembered forever.