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The Mao zedong era was an era that many of us can't understand now, but that's how we came to be.
From this article onwards, I will continue to interpret the Mao Zedong era that most people do not understand, and as far as possible, avoid starting from the ideological point of view, but interpret it from an economic point of view.
The most fundamental reason for everything that happened in the Mao Zedong era is related to the Korean War, and why it is related to this war, I will mention in the process of introducing this war.
On June 25, 1950, North Korean Leader Kim Il Sung, with the consent of former Soviet leader Stalin, ordered North Korean troops to cross the 38th Parallel and launch a surprise attack on South Korea.
On June 27, 1950, the North Korean army occupied Seoul in just three days.
This move was immediately opposed by the United Nations, led by the United States, because japan was defeated at the end of World War II, and the Korean Peninsula, once occupied by Japan, was taken over by the United States and the Soviet Union from the 38° north latitude. North Korea's move clearly undermines U.S. authority and interests in East Asia.
On July 7, 1950, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 84, which sent "United Nations troops" to support South Korea against the North Korean offensive.
On September 15, 1950, the United Nations forces (the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Turkey, Colombia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa, Ethiopia) landed in Inchon, South Korea, and began a large-scale counteroffensive.
North Korea was defeated and the war raged on the Yalu River on the Border between China and North Korea, when Kim Il Sung went to Beijing to appeal to China for help.
But in fact, Kim Il Sung did not inform China of the detailed battle plan and specific date of the war when attacking South Korea, which made China very passive at that time.
Some people today do not understand why we are sending troops to North Korea and why we should pay such a big price to fight this battle for our neighbors.
Why we should fight this battle is for several reasons:
First, ensure the stability of heavy industrial bases
At that time, when new China was founded, it was poor and white, and the place where we still had a little industrial foundation in this land was the northeast.
When Japan invaded and occupied the three eastern provinces, it left some industrial base here, although in the end it was also a pile of broken copper and rotten iron, but the good villains also had a little industrial base, and for the poor and white and still blocked by the economy and technology of the new China, there was better than nothing.
If the whole of Korea is occupied by the United States and then handed over to the rule of the ROK, then our northeast heavy industry base will be completely exposed to the enemy's firepower, and one day can destroy our efforts for more than ten years.
Second, avoid spending huge amounts of defense expenditure
If we do not send troops to North Korea, then the entire Korean Peninsula is bound to be ruled by South Korea, and for the country next to us that is different from our camp, we are bound to invest huge amounts of national defense construction on the border.
This fee is not a one-time investment, but an annual investment, which will inevitably drag down our domestic economic construction.
If we win this war, then we can exempt the huge national defense investment here, which can be used for domestic economic construction, which is also an important reason for sending troops to North Korea.
Third, stabilize the socialist camp
After the end of World War II, looking at the whole world, most of them were in the capitalist camp, and only a few countries were in the socialist camp. Since we have chosen the socialist road, we must defend this camp.
If North Korea were to perish, the socialist camp would have one less member if the socialist camp had perished, and North Korea would have been likely to pull back the pattern of the capitalist camp harvesting.
Since Korea can be conquered, then other small socialist countries will also face the fate of being conquered, and then the entire socialist camp will be broken one by one, so it is an inevitable decision to send troops to Korea.
Fourth, carry forward the spirit of communism
North Korea and China border each other, have a cold relationship, and are both members of the socialist camp.
The essential difference between capitalism and socialism is that the relationship of interests is different, the core of capitalist countries is the relationship of interests, and the relationship of interests between socialist countries is not entirely the relationship of interests, after all, there are communist beliefs in addition to interests.
Since the DPRK has asked us for help, we cannot be as indifferent as the capitalist countries, and since South Korea has asked the United States for help, the United States has intervened, and it is even more impossible for us socialist countries to stand idly by.
For these four reasons, we finally sent the People's Volunteers to fight in Korea in October 1950.
The process of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea will not be repeated here, but its great historical significance is that two major changes have taken place, changing the development of the world and changing China's development.
How did the developments that changed the world change? To briefly mention two points, there are many statements in this regard, which will not be repeated here.
1. Inspire the independence movements of other peoples of the world
Because the Chinese People's Volunteer Army brought the United Nations army led by the United States back to the negotiating table in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, so that the people of the world could see that the United States was not terrible and could still be defeated, thus greatly encouraging the national independence movements in Asia, Africa, Latin America and other countries. In the more than two decades since, many countries have won national independence in the struggle.
Second, it has changed the pattern of the world
After the end of the Korean War, the pattern of the whole world gradually changed, the old imperialism gradually moved to the edge, and the world pattern began to develop towards China, the Soviet Union and the United States.
Here's how the Korean War changed us.
Such as improving our international status, winning a relatively stable and peaceful environment for development, obtaining 156 projects of the SOVIET Union, etc., these are known to everyone.
At the beginning, I talked about the main interpretation of the Mao Zedong era from the economic point of view, so I will return to the root of this problem.
The Korean War changed our original development plan and direction.
In the process of our entry into the war in Korea, the Soviet Union only provided a part of the free weapons and equipment, and most of the weapons and equipment were bought at our expense. But we were poor at the time, where did we get so much money? Then we can only borrow, and this debt also lays the obstacle for our later development.
At that time, no one was sure how long the war would be fought, but we couldn't always rely on buying and buying, so that we couldn't afford to consume it. So we have to reduce the cost of war. How to reduce the cost of war? That is to introduce production lines and produce weapons and equipment by yourself.
This introduction of the production line is also to spend money to buy, it is impossible to send in vain, and the introduction of the production line does not mean the introduction of the introduction, you need to build a factory in accordance with the standards of the production line, you also need to ask Soviet experts to guide, but also need to organize technical personnel to train, these are the costs that need to be invested.
Now we can produce it ourselves, which saves a lot of costs than pure buying, but the main production lines we have introduced are war-related production lines, such as tanks, artillery and other production lines, which are mainly for war services. So what about these production lines after the war? The war is over, it is impossible to produce tanks and cannons, who do you sell?
The West has blockaded our economy, we cannot sell them to Western countries, and the production lines given by the Soviet Union will not give us the most advanced, and the weapons and equipment we produce cannot be sold back to the Soviet Union.
Now to give a few simple examples, you think of yourself as the highest decision-maker, you come to see how to solve these problems?
Internationally, we are blocked by western economy and technology, domestic funds were brought to Taiwan by the Kuomintang, and now in order to cope with the Korean War, we not only borrow money to buy weapons and equipment, but also introduce production lines for production.
Friends who have a way are welcome and leave the solution in the comment area.
I'm sure a lot of people don't know how to deal with it, and when you put yourself in a real situation, you know that you can talk about it as a bystander, but there's nothing you can do to really face it yourself.
It was precisely because of the Korean War that our original development plan and development direction were disrupted.
The production lines we introduced for the Korean War could not produce civilian products, but could only be transformed into heavy industry and defense industry, which led us to continue to digest these industries left over from the Korean War in our future development.
That's why we started with heavy industry and defense industries, because we had to find a way to digest the industries left to us by the Korean War.
When you know this process, do you still think that our original leaders did not understand the economy?
Well, if you haven't figured out how to solve this problem, welcome to follow my next article: "Interpreting the Mao Zedong Era II: Why Should We Encourage Fertility and Encourage Heroic Mothers in the Era of Poverty and Whiteness"
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