Wang Ruofei and others in film and television dramas
The April 8 air disaster occurred on April 8, 1946, and many of the party's revolutionary fathers were killed on the plane, including Wang Ruofei. Wang Ruofei was one of the early important leaders of the party, with many revolutionary achievements, and was also imprisoned in the prison of the Kuomintang, where he was unyielding, and after his release, he was responsible for the party's public opinion propaganda and theoretical position work, and finally negotiated with the chairman in Chongqing, Longtan Tiger's Den. On the way back to Yan'an, he died in an air crash. But the April 8 air disaster was not a simple plane crash.
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Wang Ruofei was born in Guizhou Province in 1896, and in 1917, he was sent to Japan by the officials of Guizhou Province in the Republic of China to study in Japan, after which Wang Ruofei and his party of 20 people went to Meiji University to study. After the May Fourth Movement in 1919, Wang Ruofei returned to China and participated in the anti-imperialist patriotic movement. During the movement, Wang Ruofei met a group of like-minded friends, at this time Wu Yuzhang proposed to go to France to work and study and investigate the revolution, and Wang Ruofei immediately agreed. In November 1919, Wang Ruofei set out for France. In France, Wang Ruofei studied Marxism in depth and had a closer relationship with Zhou Enlai and others. In 1922, Wang, Zhou and others organized the Young Chinese Communist Party in Europe in Paris. In 1923, Wang Ruofei went to moscow to study at the Oriental University, and it was in this year that Wang Ruofei officially joined the Communist Party of China. Subsequently, Wang Ruofei served as a member of the Chinese Delegation to the Third International in Moscow for a long time.
Wang Ruofei
In 1931, Wang Ruofei was ordered to return to China to organize the Northwest Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, but on the evening of November 21 of that year, because of the betrayal of traitors, Wang Ruofei was arrested by the Kuomintang and imprisoned in Suiyuan Province(Hohhot).
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The chairman of the Kuomintang Suiyuan Province at that time was Fu Zuoyi, who once seduced Wang Ruofei with the high-ranking official Houlu and asked his uncle Huang Qisheng, who raised Wang Ruofei to grow up, to persuade Wang Ruofei, but Wang Ruofei refused. In 1934, Wang Ruofei was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Suiyuan High Court, after which he was sent to Taiyuan Prison in Shanxi Province to serve his sentence, where wang Ruofei studied and studied Marxist-Leninist theory every day, without wasting time.
In 1936, the ambitions of the Japanese Kou to invade China became more and more obvious, and there was a certain foundation for the joint resistance to Japan at home, and in July of that year, the Party Central Committee sent people to Shanxi to do the united front work in Yan Xishan and visited Wang Ruofei. After the party learned that Wang Ruofei had a firm belief in prison, it immediately launched rescue work for Wang. By the spring of 1937, the Japanese army's all-out invasion of China was imminent, and people of insight in China had already seen that the anti-Japanese resistance was the most urgent task. In this year, the Party Central Committee sent people to do work for Yan Xishan, and finally before the July 7 Incident, Wang Ruofei was released. In August, Wang Ruo flew to Yan'an.
The 6-year prison career not only did not erase Wang Ruofei's fighting spirit, but also increased his knowledge and firm belief in Marxism-Leninism. After Wang Ruofei arrived in Yan'an, he gave full play to his own duties and professions, serving as the propaganda director and united front work director of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, specializing in public opinion, propaganda, and theoretical work.
Former site of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region
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In 1940, Wang Ruofei served as the secretary general of the CPC Central Committee, mainly responsible for theoretical and public opinion work. With his rich knowledge and profound understanding of Marxism-Leninism, Wang Ruofei has written a large number of articles and commentaries that are helpful to the cause of revolutionary anti-Japanese resistance.
In 1944, as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the later stages and the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communists increased, Wang Ruofei was sent to Chongqing to participate in the communication work with the Kuomintang. In Chongqing, Wang Ruofei fully publicized the party's policy, united the democratic parties, and fought against the Kuomintang.
In Chongqing in early 1945, the atmosphere was already very abnormal, and the Kuomintang took advantage of the power and victory of the United States to begin to implement dictatorship. Chongqing Shancheng spies ran rampant, suppressing opposition. In February of that year, the agent Tian Kai shot and killed the worker Hu Shihe in broad daylight, which immediately caused panic in The Mountain City. After Wang Ruofei asked Yan'an, he united with the democratic parties and communicated with public opinion newspapers and periodicals to launch a mass movement against the atrocities of secret agents in Chongqing, which lasted for half a month, forcing the Kuomintang to shoot the secret agent Tian Kai and hold a memorial service for the victim Hu Shihe, thus curbing the politics of secret agents.
On August 28, the chairman arrived in Chongqing to begin negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communists, but in fact the chairman was only responsible for the instructions of the outline and spirit of the negotiations and attending the ceremonial occasions, and the specific content and negotiations were handed over to Zhou Enlai, Wang Ruofei and others. At the negotiating table in Chongqing, Wang Ruofei and others fought on the basis of reason and foiled the Kuomintang's vain attempt to disband the people's army and strangle the Communist Party.
Chongqing negotiations
On April 8, 1946, Wang Ruofei and others accompanied the released General Ye Ting back to Yan'an on a plane from Chongqing to Yan'an via Xi'an. The plane arrived in Xi'an normally, but on the way to Yan'an, it crashed into the mountain in The Black Tea Mountain in Shanxi, and Wang Ruofei, Qin Bangxian (Bogu), Ye Ting, Huang Qisheng, Deng Fa and others on board were all killed.
The American aircraft used at the time
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The April 8 air disaster occurred on April 8, 1946, the plane was only missing, the wreckage was discovered on April 9, and the news of the plane crash on April 11 was transmitted to Yan'an. On the 12th, Xinhua News Agency issued a news officially conveyed the details of the air crash to the outside world. Xinhua's April 12 report became the initial material for studying the 48 air battle. Due to the domestic environment at that time, the article simply put forward two reasons for the air crash, weather reasons and indirect reasons. Residents near Heichashan said that at that time, the area around Heichashan was cloudy and foggy, and bad weather was the direct cause of the air disaster, while the Kuomintang had no sincerity in the peaceful establishment of the country, and forcing Wang Ruofei and others to leave Chongqing was the indirect cause of the air disaster. Later, with the decryption of the text, the April 8 air disaster may not be simple.
The plane was heavily yawned
Tan Zhengwen was the director of the Party's Jinsui Public Security Bureau in 1946, and on April 10, after the air crash, he led his confidential secretary Gu Yizhi to the scene of the air crash to investigate. As a witness to the scene of the air crash, Gu Yizhi personally wrote "Memories of the April 8" Crash in 1998, although the old man was 80 years old, but his thinking was clear and his speech was clear. In this article, he mentioned the investigation report of the Jinsui Public Security Bureau to the central government at that time, which was synthesized through the investigation of the air crash site and the visit to the surrounding masses, which mentioned several points: first, it was confirmed that the plane hit the mountain and not exploded in the air; second, the weather on April 8 was bad and foggy. However, the report also raised questions: why did the plane not go directly to Yan'an; the plane in Xi'an had refueled and stayed for a period of time, during which time the plane was unguarded; the Black Tea Mountain was in the northeast direction, Yan'an was in the north, the plane had serious yaw, what was the reason for the yaw? The report also attached the situation of the pilot of the aircraft, the captain and the three crew members are regular American pilots, the captain Of Captain Ranch has participated in the air war against Japan, and the members of the Flying Tigers with 3,000 hours of flight experience cannot be lost.
It wasn't until 2006, in Taiwan, that Du Jitang, a former military command agent, exposed the truth before his death. Du Jitang, who was subordinated to the military command in 1946 and was the leader of the special task force of the Sino-US Special Cooperation Institute, was ordered to manipulate the aircraft's altitude dial and disk, causing the two to fail and causing the aircraft to yaw.
The image of the military commander in film and television dramas
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Wang Ruofei is one of the important leaders in the history of our party, and he made great contributions to the revolution. On April 8, before Wang Ruofei flew away from Chongqing, he bid farewell to Zhou Enlai, and Wang Ruofei told Zhou Enlai that all work "should be planned for the people." It is resentful that the conspiracy orchestrated by the Kuomintang put an end to the ideal of a purely communist fighter fighting for the people.
Wang Ruofei Memorial Hall in Guizhou
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Duan Qingwen: "Fu Zuoyi's Escape from Two Air Disasters", Journal of Literature and History, No. 11, 2002.
Min Wenhua, "Analysis of the Causes of the April 8 Air Disaster in 1946", Journal of Carey College, No. 2, 2012.
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