The Paper's reporter Yue Huairang intern Wei Xianghui Tian Yu
The surging news reporter learned from the relatives and friends of Comrade Li Tete and the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation that Comrade Li Tete, a retired cadre of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and a lifelong director of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, died of illness on the evening of February 16, 2021, at the age of 97.
According to an April 2008 article in Global People, among the descendants of China's older generation of revolutionaries, Li Tete's experience is as special as her name. Her father, Li Fuchun, was once vice premier of the State Council; her mother, Cai Chang, served as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and chairman of the All-China Women's Federation; her uncle was Cai Hesen, the well-known early revolutionary leader of the CPC; and her maternal aunt was a pioneer of China's women's movement and the earliest female party member of the CCP, Xiang Jianyu. Growing up in such a "revolutionary family", Li Tete naturally had an extraordinary life.
According to the article, Grandma Ge Jianhao had a deep influence on Li Tete. The in-laws of the female revolutionary Qiu Jin are not far from Ge Jianhao's family. From her, Ge Jianhao accepted a whole new kind of thinking. In 1907, Qiu Jin was killed by the Qing Dynasty, and Ge Jianhao was very sad. Since then, she has constantly encouraged her children to be like Qiu Jin.
In 1919, Ge Jianhao borrowed 600 yuan of silver dollars and took his children to study in France. "She is more than 50 years old, she insists on following the young students to nibble on French, often asking her uncle impatiently, and then going to her mother, who is tired, and then goes to find her aunt." Grandma was even able to converse and read French newspapers in French. Ge Jianhao also took Cai Chang and Xiang Jingyu to embroider together every night. Her embroidery craftsmanship is exquisite, and one piece can sell for dozens or even hundreds of francs, in exchange for money for the whole family to work and study.
Little's life was almost given to him by his grandmother. In 1923, soon after Cai Chang and Li Fuchun married in France, they found out that they were pregnant. "For the sake of the revolution, my mother was determined to have an abortion. But Grandma strongly objected, even saying that she would rather give up her work than raise her granddaughter. Later, my mother agreed to give birth to me. The revolutionary-determined mother was sterilized on the delivery bed. In order to commemorate this special life, Li Fuchun and his wife named their daughter "Tete".
In 1938, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent the children of some martyrs' orphans and leading comrades to the International Children's Institute in Moscow, and Litt was among them. She was accompanied by Chairman Mao's sons Mao Anying and Mao Anqing, Liu Shaoqi's daughter Liu Aiqin, Zhu De's daughter Zhu Min, and so on. "I feel so happy that I don't have to eat or drink here, and on Sundays, taking a shower and changing clothes is a heavenly life."
However, the quiet days did not last long, and in 1941 the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union broke out. Some of the older children of The International Children's Institute were placed in military training and prepared to participate in combat as reserve troops. The 17-year-old Li Tete has to carry 20 or 30 kilograms a day and complete the ski march of 80 to 90 kilometers. She also received an honorary certificate of "Light Machine Gunner".
Li Tete also nursed the wounded in the hospital, in addition to helping them change medicine and feed them every day, there was also an important job, that is, to collect baskets of broken arms and legs and bury them. "I nursed a young soldier who was handsome but had his limbs amputated, leaving only a torso placed on a straw mat. The young man asked me to write to my family and tell my parents not to worry about it, that he was all right and that he would be able to go home after the war. As I wrote, the tears couldn't stop flowing. "In the weather of minus 40 degrees Celsius, she dug anti-tank trenches with the people of Moscow." The soil was frozen harder than stone, and blood seeped out of the cotton gloves, and then he simply did not wear gloves and let the blood mix with the dirt. ”
After the war, Ritter returned to the Moscow campus. At the age of 24, she married a Russian guy. A year later, she gave birth to a beautiful mixed-race boy.
In 1952, Litt returned to China after graduating from the Timyatev Agricultural College in Moscow. "As before leaving, my parents were still unusually busy and rarely saw each other." Li Tete did not enjoy any privileges, but with the encouragement of his parents, he took his second son, who was only 3 months old, to the Northern Wilderness to open up the wilderness, and stayed for 3 years. "The child's father was not used to it, he did not understand Chinese, and after coming to Beijing, he was assigned to work in the telecommunications bureau. A lot of people talk about it, saying we can't last long. The cultural background was very different, the living habits were different, and the requirements in our party at that time were also very strict, and he and I had less and less communication. ”
As a child of the revolution, Li Tete's life seems to be closely linked to the revolutionary torrent of the ebb and flow of the tide and the international situation. In the 1960s, as Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated, surrounded by various pressures, Litt's husband divorced her and returned to the Soviet Union. After that, Li Tete worked at the North China Institute of Agriculture (the predecessor of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) in Beijing until his retirement. In the meantime, Little remarried and gave birth to a young daughter.
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