On May 3, Xu Zhiming, a professor at Renmin University of China, wrote in his "Lao Xu Said" self-media:
"Chinese tourists go to Vladivostok as tourists, and Lao Xu thinks that it is a personal act and there is nothing wrong with it."
"But to participate in the military parade in a high-profile manner and associate it with the so-called 'Sino-Russian friendship', Lao Xu is critical and opposed."
It turned out that in the attached picture behind Lao Xu's text, there was a photo of a Chinese man smiling and taking a photo with Russian military parade personnel during the night military parade rehearsal in Vladivostok Square in Russia, and in the picture introduction, there was also such a text expression: "Chinese group visited the night military parade rehearsal in Vladivostok Victory Square to strengthen Sino-Russian friendship."
In a play performed by the Chinese that year, Lenin said a widely circulated saying: "Forgetting the past is tantamount to betrayal" - this sentence eventually evolved into "forgetting history is equal to betrayal", which has almost become a famous phrase known to women and children in the country.
However, now this group of so-called "Chinese who organized a group to participate in the rehearsal of the Vladivostok military parade" even regarded this trip as "strengthening Sino-Russian friendship." This can only be said that they are really "ignorant and fearless"!
To say that "ignorance" is ignorance of the history of China and Russia, and to say that Vladivostok originally belonged to Chinese territory, but in history, it was coerced and ceded by a humiliating treaty under the wanton aggression of Russia in those years. In the past, Chinese lived, and the Russians used the blood of the Chinese to stain the land red, and eventually, it became the place where they hold the so-called "Victory Day" every year.
However, have these Chinese forgotten history? Isn't it "tantamount to betrayal"?
Yes, history may be difficult to change, and interests are changing at any time - even in the hearts of some Chinese, China needs to temporarily "back to back" with its northern neighbor, but just because it is necessary to "strengthen Sino-Russian friendship" at the moment, we can forget the history of aggression, and we must go to the commemoration of the land stained with the blood of our ancestors but now belonging to others, congratulating us on defeats and "victories" for others?
Even if some people want to "strengthen Sino-Russian friendship" for a time and place, obviously, it should not be based on the premise of abandoning our true historical memories and lessons - yes, between countries, there may really be "only eternal interests", but this cannot be built on the basis of ignoring historical facts!
On the Internet, there has been a passage circulating recently: "Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, Ukraine...... It was not really conquered by Russia, and the only country that was really conquered by Russia in history was China!"
This may be just a ridiculous and joke-like joke, but after watching these groups of Chinese who went to congratulate the conquerors on "Victory Day", I have to say that such a statement seems to be very reasonable.
What can be corroborated is Sima Nan, who was "born in China, lives in the United States, and has a heart in Russia" -- he even shouted in a video of his dialogue with Konstantin, editor-in-chief of the "Russia Today" radio station: "Those who talk about the history of China and Russia and affect the strategic partnership between China and Russia today should be killed!"
Dealing with the country that has invaded the most of its own territory, it is still a face of "measuring China's material resources and forming friends and countries", but for his compatriots, whoever wants to "talk about the history of China and Russia" will threaten to kill his head, is this a love for China?—— a person who will not even love his own people first, so the so-called "patriotism" is, in essence, a hybrid of hypocrisy and evil.
There is indeed a "friendship" between countries at one time and one place, and the changes in interests are a barometer of this "friendship between countries" -- in fact, the friendship between China and Russia is the best proof of this.
In the former Soviet Union, friendship and hostility between the two sides were also mixed with each other -- for example, the Soviet Union's support for China's revolution and construction, and its help in resisting the US aid to Korea; during this period, there were still Outer Mongolia being expelled from China by its own strength; there was also its "evil idea" of wanting the "Kuomintang and the Communist Party" to divide the Yangtze River; and when China was "disobedient and unwilling to be its little brother," it suppressed and invaded China -- such as the "Zhenbao Island Counterattack"; and even the Soviet Union once threatened to use atomic bombs against China......
According to the logic of Sima Nan's "goose fans," can't we mention these Sino-Russian histories? Otherwise, on the pretext of "affecting the current Sino-Russian relations," we will have to "kill our compatriots" and kill them?
If it is only for the sake of the so-called "back-to-back" interests in the immediate situation, we will put all the past history into the "cold palace", and no one can mention it again, but instead blustly cater to the fact that it is an anniversary of aggression, then, if one day, when the times change, and we have a situation similar to the "Sino-US cooperation" in the past, can we also use the same logic to treat state-to-state relations in this way?
What does this actually mean? It shows that in the cognition of many of our people, they only have a short-term view of immediate interests, but they do not have the heart to uphold the eternal truth of fairness and justice in the world, and they lack the profound values of justice and the accumulation of culture and civilization -- they are too realistic, too interests-oriented, and have become more and more like "lard blinded hearts."
A nation that is too short-sighted and shallow to the point of ignorance and fearlessness will eventually suffer a heavy historical lesson of repeated slaps in the face -- but how big will such a price be? I believe that those Chinese who took a group photo on Vladivostok on Victory Day, and those who shyly sent a message of "talking about the history of China and Russia, and not talking about killing," could not see these far-reaching effects; perhaps, the reason why they "know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer tigers in the mountains" is because of their ulterior motives!
In this world, it may be difficult to have completely unified values and ideologies, but I believe that there are still basic principles and axioms common to mankind in the world.
For example, the presentation of facts, the screening of historical truths, the recognition of the values of freedom and democracy, and the pursuit of peace and friendship...... These eternal "interests" are not dispensable compared to the interests of a time and a place, but should always be in my heart! This is the most precious and shining pearl above the interests of mankind!
History has long been and is still proving: a nation that only knows how to wave the "short-sighted" will eventually go to the abyss of pain of the "self-palace"!