One day in December 1959, the Amnesty Conference for War Criminals was held as scheduled.
Du Yuming, Song Xilian, Wang Yaowu, Zeng Kuoqing...... and 30 other captured Kuomintang generals were all released from prison by amnesty because of their active reform.
Later, even Chiang Kai-shek's die-hard fan Huang Wei was reformed and released from prison by amnesty.
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Moreover, these people who were released from prison by amnesty were also assigned jobs to contribute to the construction of New China according to their own strengths.
The mainland granted amnesty to more than 500 high-ranking Kuomintang war criminals, and the principle of amnesty was that they were willing to accept reform.
But in 1950, the mainland had a rare execution of five captured Kuomintang generals, what did they do to arouse public outrage?
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The Kuomintang fled in defeat
Gongdelin has been a place for reforming criminals since the Guangxu period, but at this time it was still called the "Jingshi Xi Art Institute".
During the Kuomintang period, the nature of Gongdelin's original detention of criminals was changed by Chiang Kai-shek, and although it was still used as a prisoner, the people in it were all comrades of our party who were persecuted by the Kuomintang, and they suffered inhuman torture.
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Our party liberated Beiping, and changed Beiping and Beijing to establish New China, and then Chairman Mao made arrangements for the Kuomintang generals who surrendered to our party and were captured, and a large part of them entered the Gongdelin that could accommodate thousands of people to be reformed.
Why did so many Kuomintang generals surrender?
According to statistics, during the three-year War of Liberation, more than one million Kuomintang officers and men chose to "surrender" in the face of the overwhelming momentum of the PLA, and hundreds of Kuomintang generals above the rank of major general also "surrendered."
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Within three years, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has gradually turned the tables against the wind with the help of the people, from its initial inferiority in numbers and armaments.
However, the Kuomintang under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek gradually retreated and fled in disarray, even if there were some remaining talented soldiers who were defeated, there was nothing to fear.
Most of the Kuomintang generals and soldiers were still able to distinguish between right and wrong, and even if some were more stubborn, they were also moved by our party's sincerity.
Of course, these are not the hearts of great treachery, and our party will never tolerate those treacherous and evil people who will not repent to death.
Five of them were executed by our party according to the law!
Traitor Yang Qinghai
Yang Qinghai is a native of Jilin and was born in 1916.
Although he was forced to become a bandit in the mountains in his early years because of his life, he still retained his chivalrous spirit, which is not a loss of conscience.
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The Japanese army started the war of aggression against China, and Yang Qinghai also actively participated in the ranks of resistance against Japan, even if the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation later encountered major difficulties and was in danger of being destroyed, some people who were not determined to take refuge in the enemy in order to save their lives, he did not give in.
During this period, Yang Haiqing was still a good comrade of the party and was given important responsibilities by the party.
But such a comrade, who had been tempered by battle and blood, was defeated in the "color".
It turned out that in 1937 during the anti-Japanese period, Yang Haiqing was ordered to perform a mission and was injured and was rescued by a woman working in a special industry.
The Kuomintang found someone to pretend to be a "female benefactor" to meet Yang Haiqing, this impostor is in the Fengyue place all the year round, and he is the best at playing with people's hearts.
After she had a relationship with Yang Haiqing, she immediately spread the news that she was "adopted", and Yang Haiqing's wife was naturally angry and immediately reported it to her superiors.
Yang Haiqing was punished and sent to Harbin to study Xi, but he was not convinced.
Xu is a person who refuses to be wronged, even if he is wrong, the false benefactor only exposes his true thoughts prematurely.
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Yang Haiqing was out of control after that, and finally pointed the gun at his former comrades.
The Chinese Communist Party was popular with the people, and Yang Haiqing was later arrested and publicly executed.
A Kuomintang general who did absolutely evil things
The warlord Zhang Zhuo was a general of the Guizhou army, he was born in 1891, he was still a serious military academy graduate, and he had some strength.
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But Zhang Zhuo has no overall view, he is used to flattery, and he also has some identity by relying on Chiang Kai-shek.
In the War of Liberation, with the defeat of the Kuomintang, Zhang Zhuo also became a prisoner of our party in the rout and was sent to Gongdelin for reform.
Later, after considering various reasons, he was finally executed.
The third person to be executed was also a general of the warlord Qianjun, his name was Zhang Guoxun, but nothing he did was worthy of his name.
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Zhang Guoxun is ruthless, he is friends with Mao Renfeng and other spies, and he has participated in many incidents of persecution of our party comrades.
The latter two were sentenced to death, and it is a pity that they have come to this point. One of them is Lu Mengji, a famous general of the Northern Expedition, and the other is Deng Zichao.
To say that they are sorry is not to sympathize, but to deplore that they have gone the wrong way.
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Like Lu Mengji, who is more senior than Chiang Kai-shek, and being able to participate in the Northern Expedition shows that individuals should have some merits, but they waste their talents and go down the road step by step.
Deng Zichao studied at the Whampoa Military Academy and was a student of the first phase of Whampoa.
His heart was close to our party, but his will was not firm, and he immediately quit our party after being bewitched by Chiang Kai-shek.
Although he later rose through the ranks of the Kuomintang, he took his path crookedly and narrowly.
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After being captured, our party was willing to give him a chance to reform himself, but he abandoned the good intentions of our party, stubbornly did not work, and plotted to escape from prison many times.
In the end, Deng Zichao went to perdition.
Among these five people are those who have never been good, and there are also people who have a bright future, but they can't understand the reason and kill themselves.
Time is also fate, the road of life is your own, and you still have to think clearly about how to go.