After seeing what happened in Ukraine, we have a deeper understanding of Chairman Mao's greatness
After years of bloody struggle and the courageous resistance of thousands of revolutionaries of the older generation, the People's Republic of China was finally established on October 1, 1949.
New China has a long and long history, but it is a nascent regime. Such contradictions made many countries at that time pay attention to the political trends of New China, and the European and American powers were even more eager to look at the mainland.
Soviet comrades participated in the National Day celebrations
Fortunately, Chairman Mao had foresight and formulated a series of policies. These will still have a profound impact in later generations.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is precisely because Chairman Mao made two important policy decisions in the battle of Liwei and nuclear weapons that chairman Mao was able to become stronger and stronger and usher in today's peaceful and prosperous world.
Chairman Mao
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea fought the Battle of Liwei
Since the United States entered the Korean War, the situation on the front line has attracted chairman Mao's attention. Because North Korea and China have always had a relationship with each other, once North Korea falls completely, it will become a vassal of the United States. Then the security of the northeast border area of the mainland is bound to be affected.
It just so happened that at this time, the leader of North Korea, General Kim Il Sung, wrote to Chairman Mao for help, so Chairman Mao resolutely pointed out at the central political meeting: "This war must be fought. Not only to play, but also to play beautifully, to play results. It's a battle of might! ”
At that time, New China had just been founded, the nascent regime was still unstable, and the United States was eyeing the territory of the mainland. During the Korean War, several U.S. troops rebelled on China's northeastern border.
The wolf ambitions of the US imperialists were clearly revealed, but the Soviet leaders were afraid that rushing to participate in the war would affect their "international image," so Chairman Mao resolutely and resolutely took over the heavy task of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea at this time.
Korean
At that time, the central government was generally divided into two factions, one faction believed that the mainland should increase its troops in the northeast region, mainly defensive. The other faction believes that the US military should be dispatched at an early date while its power has not yet expanded.
Just as the two factions were arguing endlessly, Chairman Mao spoke. Chairman Mao first briefly summed up the current situation in korea, and then Chairman Mao said that now that the cities and pools in korea have fallen one after another, we must send troops to reinforce Korea at an early date.
We must not regard the affairs of the DPRK as the affairs of other countries, but we must regard the affairs of the DPRK as our own. Second, once the US military tries to go to war with the mainland, then the United States can launch an attack on the mainland from the three directions of Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
In this context, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army was established. Before entering North Korea, they did not expect that they would help the country win such a crucial war.
At that time, the mainland volunteers were armed with old-fashioned rifles, wearing torn cotton coats, and eating frozen potatoes. The U.S. military, on the other hand, has a good supply of weapons and food.
Despite such a disparity in equipment between the two sides, the volunteers won the war with perseverance and indomitable courage.
This war is a real "battle of Li Wei"! Because it won the United States, which was the world hegemon at that time, New China, as a nascent regime, also won more discourse power in the world.
Chairman Mao and Qian Xuesen
However, in order to gain a firm foothold in the international arena, it is still far from enough to win this battle.
At this time, nuclear weapons, as a country's must-kill weapon, its research and development has been put on the agenda.
The second important decision, "armed to the teeth" with nuclear weapons
In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Japan. At that time, the power of the atomic bomb shocked the international community, and the central organ newspaper of the Cpc Central Committee also reported on it.
Chairman Mao had always had the habit of reading newspapers, so he also read with great interest the report of the Newspaper of the Central Organ of China describing the power of the Japanese atomic bomb.
The report read: "The atomic bomb was so powerful that all the creatures on Hiroshima were burned to death. Nuclear radiation may continue to have an impact on organisms on Hiroshima for decades to come. ”
At that time, after Chairman Mao finished reading this article, he frowned slightly, and then he went to the staff and accused the staff of writing too exaggerated.
The staff then rearranged the materials and eventually changed the article to "More than 100,000 people were burned to death on Hiroshima." ”
This was Chairman Mao's first knowledge of nuclear weapons and the first time he knew the term "atomic bomb."
After the founding of New China, Chairman Mao went to the Soviet Union for an inspection. At that time, Stalin showed Chairman Mao nuclear weapons for the purpose of showing off.
At that time, Chairman Mao felt: "That article describing the power of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima is true!" With this atomic bomb, isn't it equivalent to having a pair of king bombs in your own hands? After Chairman Mao came up with this idea, Stalin tried his best to stop Chairman Mao.
What Stalin meant was that since we were good brothers, you would consider me a big brother. Then I already have nuclear weapons, and I'll just cover you.
Chairman Mao, however, felt that instead of relying on others, it was better to firmly grasp nuclear weapons in his own hands. Only in this way can we gain a firm foothold in the world.
Chairman Mao visited the Soviet Union
"Only if you can fight, can you stop the war." Chairman Mao has always been firm in this idea. In 1955, Chairman Mao finally persuaded Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, that the Soviet Union agreed to help new China develop nuclear weapons.
But Khrushchev soon repented and took all the Soviet experts who remained in China with him. Fortunately, all kinds of external blows did not dispel Chairman Mao's ideas, and on June 16, 1964, the first atomic bomb test on the mainland was successful.
From this moment on, China has finally gained a firm foothold in the international arena and has truly armed itself with "nuclear weapons" to the teeth.
After the successful first test of the intercontinental missile developed by China, the United States immediately made overtures to China and invited Vice Premier Geng Biao to visit and investigate the United States.
Facts have proved that Chairman Mao's policy decision was correct. It is precisely because China has nuclear weapons that it can really have confidence in the international arena in the future!
Ukraine has eliminated all its nuclear weapons, creating the current tragic situation
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine took more than 1,400 nuclear warheads, including even 176 intercontinental missiles, during the "separation" of the family.
The sheer number of nuclear weapons possessed by Ukraine made it the third-largest possessor of nuclear weapons after the United States and Russia.
At that time, Ireland's international status generally improved by leaps and bounds, and the leaders of the United States and Russia rushed to show their goodwill to Ukraine.
At that time, Ukraine had been oscillating between pro-American and pro-Russian, which made both countries very nervous.
Because Russia and Ukraine had some grudges during the Soviet era, and Ukraine's attitude has always been wavering, Russia is very worried about whether Ukraine will use nuclear weapons to target itself.
The reason for the tension on the US side is even more obvious, first of all, it has an impact on its status as a nuclear power. Moreover, Ukraine is not stable and easy to control.
So Russia took the lead in finding Ukraine and said that the cost of nuclear weapons maintenance is large, and the lockbox of nuclear weapons is in Russia's hands, so it is better to give these nuclear warheads to Russia.
After Russia left, the United States also came to share a piece of the pie. This time, the United States is interested in the enriched uranium in the nuclear warhead, hoping to take away these things, and expressed its willingness to give Ukraine regular economic subsidies.
Ukraine was "caught between two big powers" at that time, and it was indeed not easy! Under the repeated bombardment of the United States and Russia, Ukraine simply broke the jar and broke it, and since both sides wanted the nuclear weapons in my hands, the good nuclear weapons were given to you, as long as you could maintain my territorial sovereignty and security.
The farce ended with Ukraine destroying all its nuclear weapons.
At the same time, Ukraine also tried its best to win some "advantages", according to the treaty, Russia, Britain and the United States need to ensure the territorial integrity of Ukraine, while not interfering in Ukraine's internal affairs.
Ukraine then sent some of its nuclear warheads to Russia, and sold the remaining part of the enriched uranium to the United States in exchange for some economic subsidies.
It was not until 2001 that Ukraine demolished the last missile depot in its territory. Similar to a person who learned the world's martial arts, but had to abolish martial arts in exchange for money, Ukraine handed over or destroyed its nuclear weapons step by step, and finally became a completely non-nuclear country.
The United States spent about $700 million to get Ukraine's nuclear weapons and the enriched uranium in them, making it completely lose its voice in the international community at a price of about $700 million.
In fact, Ukraine's initial wishful thinking was wrong, even if the Ukrainian leader had half of Chairman Mao's pattern in those years, he would not have fallen into such a situation!
How can one's own national security and territorial sovereignty be all attached to other countries? Moreover, the international situation is changing, and as NATO forces continue to expand to the east, Ukraine has become a weight in the struggle between major powers because of its delicate geographical location.
The United States values the geographical proximity between Ukraine and Russia, and hopes to make Russia "suffer a little" through Ukraine. But Russia fears that moving toward the United States threatens its own security.
When Ukraine first destroyed its nuclear weapons, it wanted to "please the two major powers", but it did not succeed, and in the end no one pleased, and it fell into the current situation.
On the other hand, China is still not proud and complacent about it after possessing nuclear weapons, and continues to fight steadily in the cause of national defense, creating one miracle after another.
Chinese often said, "If a person wants to sit on two chairs at the same time, then he will definitely fall down." The same applies to the question of the state!
In the face of the current situation, while we are glad that the country's strength has increased today, so that we can still maintain normal work and life when the Russo-Ukrainian War broke out, we must also sincerely thank the revolutionaries of the older generation represented by Chairman Mao, whose foresight can be exchanged for our peace today!