FROM LANDLORDS AND GENTRY TO THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC SPECIAL GOVERNMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000200060006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 23, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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The NCw 0bsf ryer, Val I, No 10, Nov 19 4
by Sun Chjh.-chum;, Peiping, 1
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ENTRY 'lE oPLE's DF~ P/1pCR&TTC SPIO:r~L Gov,E1,xz'~f
? out of six pao~chia chiefs in a suburban area
Before the cl~.bcarata.on, five
around Pcaiping were landlords, Tho sixth vas a good KP~T henchman. The local
police was all undr the control of the landlords and fond support to all
e
' .the aasants. Not only were all taxes and
landlord schemes for mulct:~n~; p
the ;scants but by moans of false arrests on trumpod
levies' passed down to the P~
fines the proceeds of which
up charges the pao-chia chiefs levied heavy , went into their own pockets . Vriclced landlords rcqu7.red free labor of the
paopl.c far their own canstructian purposes and even refused food to the
workmen;
Naturally in the early days of the change~ovar from landlord rule to
mach due to unfamiliarity with the near setup
peasant rule , m .stakes were
and the da ?ffa.culties the now cadres foi d in entirely breaking away from
a ~.and~rc~. class At first the p?asantst
their attitude of s>.tbsdrv?~.cnca to th
' membership a number of undes,irab1-, e7.oments.
associations contained in their
Theca werc~, gradually weeded out and the peasants' control of affairs was
strengthened.
said that the old form of govrnment v3 the
Comrade Ch' Fn Po t,a has
~ the f?W' vJha.le the new form is the. ' oppression
t opprE'ssa.an of the man, by
t Lenin has said that a 'government by the fatu' was
of the few by the many
ion but that 'government by the many' is made
possible only by police oppress
possible the ~~,~icipation of the masses under by securing the confidence and
~dthout keeping any secret from them. This is
condition of complete freedom
new oral overnm,ent; the people flow take full part
the gray . ~.~. , is with our Haut r g
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in the arhmini$trata.on and nothing ihidden from them. Any errors of the
cadres are immcdiateiy brought to light and corrected. Mao Tao~tung has
directed that reactionaries arc: to be a11OWJa no Voice1 in political affairs;
thny are only to obey orders in an orderly mannc r, Thi.~ is the program
now being carried out in the rural areas. ~9ao said 23 years ago that a
tornado would. arise in al]. /arts of China that no power could dhe~k a nd
that all rc+actionary political institutions would be destroyed arid buriod
out of sight. This prediction is now rapidly boing fulfilled.
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