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New China was able to be established in the midst of disasters and has grown to this day, and our party's underground intelligence workers have made great contributions, and in some cases, their role has even surpassed that of thousands of troops.
Their heroic deeds, I believe you are not unfamiliar, and you can also find a lot of relevant documentaries and materials, so I don't need to say more, here, I want to talk about a thing that was ignored by everyone, but at that time many underground intelligence workers were afraid - confessions.
During the period of the Republic of China, our party attached great importance to intelligence work, and a large number of intelligence workers were recruited into the national government, commonly known as the "underground party". The Kuomintang reactionaries' methods of dealing with these people were extremely cruel, and in addition to physical extermination, they also wanted to create a bad influence among the people, damage the image of our party, and achieve harm that military strikes could not do.
There are many kinds of confession books, because different people have different contents, and in general, there are the following three.
First, for the arrested comrades, the reactionaries will lure him, "It doesn't matter if you don't confess, write a confession, and say that you have been bewitched, know that you are wrong, and declare your resignation from the party, then not only can you be released, but also give you a good job, a house, a ticket, and what you want." The famous "My Confession" was written by Comrade Chen Ran in such a situation.
Once this kind of confession is made public, the arrested comrades will be regarded as traitors regardless of whether they confess or not, and our party will not engage in assassination, but the punishment of traitors is not in the scope of assassination.
On the other hand, it is a kind of security inspection conducted by some special organs of the state government, such as the secret protection department and the intelligence agency, from time to time, and the general content of this kind of confession is to slander and attack our party, and after it is written, it must be kept on file and kept, and for some suspicious objects, his confession will be made public, and the reaction of our party's underground organizations to these confessions will be seen, and the undercover suspects will be locked.
This kind of trick is the most vicious; if you are a person who follows the reactionaries to the black, then the confession is nothing more than a piece of paper, but if you are a comrade who works for our party, or a patriotic person who sympathizes with our party and is willing to help our party do something, as soon as this confession is published, the people concerned will become the enemies of our party, should the latent comrades still believe it? People who sympathize with our party are still not objects that can be won over? Should the people who connect with these people be replaced? All of the things have to be considered, not to mention that after the liberation of the whole country in the future, such a confession will still be the key evidence for identifying enemy agents.
Ma Zhanshan
There is another one, which is aimed at military generals, but this cannot be called a confession, it is called electricity. The most famous example should be the patriotic general Ma Zhanshan during the Anti-Japanese War, he commanded the Jiangqiao Anti-Japanese War, which was the first shot of the Anti-Japanese War, and later for various reasons, he surrendered to the Japanese army, and Japan telegraphed the news to the whole country, causing an uproar in public opinion.
Speaking of which, you may have questions, isn't it just a piece of paper, just write it, just don't admit it after writing, or explain the situation later, and it's just a piece of paper, I didn't betray anyone, can I be guilty of going on the platform?
Yes, General Ma Zhanshan also thought so when he surrendered to the Japanese army. He was born in a warlord, and he himself was a bandit, so it can be said that at that time, he still had a part of the Jianghu spirit of "heroes do not suffer immediate losses", for him, this kind of thing is quite embarrassing, but so what? Stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, today I surrender, because I can't do you, as long as you don't kill me, I will find a chance to do it with you again, but as soon as the electricity comes out, the impact is serious and far-reaching, not only after the anti-Japanese banner is re-raised, but also slandered as a traitor, The traitor, after the defeat, in the national War of Resistance, has never been able to be reused, and has been excluded and monitored, and life is very difficult.
During the period of the Republic of China, the struggle between the enemy and ourselves was cruel and complicated, and as soon as the confession was published, it was necessary to do a lot of investigation and evidence collection work in order to prove this person's innocence, and at that time, our party did not have such conditions and capabilities, so the best way was not to write it.
However, the reactionaries are also very bad, and after seizing the underground party, even though they refuse to write a "confession," they will still compile a copy and publish it in the newspapers, saying that you wrote it, so that the arrested comrades will not be able to defend themselves and will not be able to turn a blind eye.
Sometimes, some people, in order to make the enemy believe in themselves more, eliminate their own suspicions, and work better for our party, after obtaining the consent of the organization, still wrote a "confession" against their will, so that they were later persecuted, but even so, no one complained, because they knew very well that the establishment of New China was not made by keyboard, it was to die, and it was to be exchanged for countless blood and lives.