△ Manuscript of Mao Zedong's telegram on rewarding the southwestern bandit forces
A hundred years of the Communist Party of China
On March 16, 1950, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission issued the instructions "Suppress bandits and establish a new revolutionary order". Since then, a struggle against bandits that has lasted for more than three years has rapidly unfolded throughout the country.
Historical documentary: Comrades, Caught, this is Cao Shaohua, who claims to be the "commander-in-chief of the Guizhou People's Anti-Communist Self-Defense And National Salvation Army", who was shot in the buttocks and obediently captured alive. This heinous bandit leader finally could not escape the people's legal net.
△ The masses of the people welcomed the bandit troops in the middle of the road
At the beginning of the founding of New China, bandit activities in Hunan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, and other places were rampant, and they brutalized the masses of the people and local cadres, destroyed transportation, and caused great harm to the restoration of production and the safety of people's lives and property. In February 1950, Deng Xiaoping, then first secretary of the Southwest Bureau and political commissar of the Southwest Military Region, pointed out when reporting to the Central Committee on the situation in southwest China and the future work policy: Nothing can be done without suppressing the bandits.
Historian Deng Lifeng: Only when the bandits are eliminated can you smoothly carry out the land reform movement. The central task in the southwest is to suppress bandits, and if the bandits are not annihilated, nothing can be discussed. Deng Xiaoping said so.
△ At the beginning of the founding of New China, the Southwest Military Region quickly carried out the work of suppressing bandits
In the struggle against bandits, the Communist Party of China and the people's government have not only resolutely suppressed bandits and never tolerated them, but have also paid attention to policies and combined the suppression of bandits with a series of issues such as the establishment of political power, the strengthening of local armed forces, and land reform. In the process of suppressing bandits, the method of coordinated operations at all levels has been adopted, leaving the bandits with nowhere to escape.
Shu Jian, professor at the National Security College of the National Defense University: At that time, both the central authorities and the Southwest Sichuan Bureau adopted a policy called "three combinations" for political, military, and mobilizing the masses. At the same time, other coerced accomplices are treated leniently. The specific military deployment of bandits means that the bandits in such central areas should be eliminated first, and then the bandits in remote areas should be suppressed.
△ The PLA anti-bandit units went deep among the masses in southern Shaanxi to publicize the party's principles and policies
From 1950 to 1953, the People's Liberation Army successively mobilized 1.5 million troops from more than 140 divisions of 39 armies to annihilate more than 2.4 million bandits, ending China's history of "long-standing bandits and fierce harms." This arduous struggle against bandits not only consolidated the nascent People's Republic, but also created a miracle in the history of China's suppression of bandits.
Record China with sound
Producer 丨Gao Yan
Planner 丨Wu Junshan Li Qian
The main writer 丨 Wu Jing Bai Jiege
Broadcast 丨Changyue
Co-ordinator 丨Zhu Xingxiao Wang Zehua
Made 丨dan Dandan