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Chairman Mao passed away in 1976, and the United Nations lowered the flag to mourn, and more than 100 countries around the world paid their condolences together. But there is a country that is rude and even wants to take advantage of the situation.
So which country is this? And how do people in the world mourn Chairman Mao? Today we will talk about this topic.
On September 9, 1976, at 0:10 am, the great leader Chairman Mao passed away on Zhongnanhai at the age of 83. The whole country was shocked when the news came out, but the world responded more than the sadness of the Chinese.
Within 15 minutes after learning that Chairman Mao’s death, all the mainstream media in the world reported the news.
Then the next day, the United Nations Headquarters deliberately lowered the flag and expressed condolences to Chairman Mao. Almost at the same time, the heads of 123 countries sent 169 condolence messages to China.
Even the arch-rivaled United States gave Chairman Mao a very high evaluation. Former US President Nixon said: "Chairman Mao is a person with extraordinary courage and firm thought, and is also the most outstanding among revolutionary leaders."
Nixon
He also quoted Chairman Mao's poems in his condolence message:
"How many things are always urgent, the world turns to turn time, ten thousand years are too long, and we have to seize the day."
In addition, the then-US president Gerald Ford sent a condolence message to Beijing as soon as possible. The American media, which has always been against the sky and the earth, also gave high praise to Chairman Mao.
The People's Republic of China was just a semi-feudal country where agriculture dominated. Most of the population is illiterate, and under the leadership of Chairman Mao, the country has carried out a series of socialist transformations.
When he passed away, China had been able to manufacture its own nuclear bombs and missiles , becoming a major oil producer.
In the process of China's revival of , he put an end to China's century of shame, abolished all Western unequal treaties, and allowed the New China to win the recognition and respect of the whole world.
In addition, his former enemy, Japan, also gave a high evaluation of Chairman Mao. Takeo Miki, then Prime Minister of Japan, bluntly said:
Chairman Mao was not only the founder of the People's Republic of China, but also the great leader of the 800 million Chinese people. As a world-class politician, he has made great achievements in history.
, and the Minister of Tibetan Buddhism Dahei Masayoshi expressed sadly that he deeply felt that he had lost its last giant this century:
"The huge impact this will have on China and the world in the future is frankly immeasurable. When he thinks that he will never see Chairman Mao again, he feels lonely and lonely. He is a big man with a broad mind as broad as the ocean."
According to statistics, there are more than 10,000 mourners from all walks of life in Japan who went to the Chinese Embassy and the Chinese Consulate General in Osaka.
and other Western countries also expressed great condolences for Chairman Mao’s death, such as French President Giscar Destan , who issued a statement saying:
" Due to the death of Chairman Mao Zedong, a lighthouse of human thought was extinguished. He came from the lower class of the Chinese people, freeing the Chinese people from the humiliation of the past. With his unique courage and courageous thinking in his actions, he successfully put them in the central position recognized by history."
After the people of Paris learned about this, more than 10,000 people spontaneously held a march to mourn Chairman Mao’s death. French Presidential Palace also decided to let all public buildings in France lower the flag to mourn.
In addition to Western countries, the countries in the socialist camp of also expressed deep condolences for Chairman Mao’s death.
For example, Kim Il-sung, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, said that the socialist revolution and socialist construction led by Chairman Mao have achieved significant results and are a well-deserved great man.
and after Mao Zedong's death, the North Korean government also issued the "Joint Decision between the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the North Korean Government on the Death of Chairman Mao", requiring the nationwide mourning to Chairman Mao.
In addition, Pakistani is more true. Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto said directly in his condolence message: "Chairman Mao is the giant among the giants."
and Pakistani President Jode said with great praise that Chairman Mao is the father of the Chinese revolution who has changed, accounting for one-quarter of the lives of mankind, and is one of the most outstanding leaders in history.
Although Chairman Mao has won the reputation of the people of the world after his death, for the people of the country, sadness has just begun.
The earliest group of people who knew about Chairman Mao’s death were Yang Zhengquan, the deputy director of Central People’s Radio Station. At around five o'clock in the morning, he was called to the Director's Office for an emergency meeting, but unexpectedly, the notification was that Chairman Mao passed away.
He conveyed the news of Chairman Mao’s death to the relevant personnel who were about to participate in the broadcast. everyone was extremely shocked and many people burst into tears.
At 2:30 pm on September 9, the Party Committee of Tsinghua University held a meeting of cadres at the party branch secretary or above, with 800 people attending. The Party Committee leaders announced the news of Chairman Mao’s death, and the entire venue was filled with crying.
When General Tan Zheng, general of the People's Liberation Army, heard the news, he lay on the sofa with a pale face and couldn't breathe. After the doctor's treatment, he kept sighing and crying.
At 4 pm on September 9, the Central People's Radio Station started broadcasting and officially informed of this fact. People across the country were shocked and felt that the sky was falling. writer Ye Shengtao wrote in his diary:
The fall of a superstar is not only our country, but the world will always remember it.
Other social celebrities, such as Feng Youlan , Zhang Boju , etc., also wrote poems, elegy couplets and mourning their aspirations. Ordinary people were even more heartbroken. The workers in a factory in Wuhan were crying with their heads in their arms, and some people cried and shouted:
"What should I do? What should I do if Chairman Mao is gone? What should I do if the weather changes! We have to suffer twice and suffer two more!" Most of the people in the factory were wearing black veils, and there were even several old ladies from neighborhood committees spontaneously went to the streets to check, and who did not wear black veils.
Most of the children born on this day are called Nianze Sidong Niandong. However, what Chairman Mao was most sad after his death was the poor and lower-middle peasants in the commune brigade.
Hearing this news, many poor and lower-middle peasants rolled on the ground: "Chairman Mao, who cares about us when you leave? How can we live..."
On September 11, 1976, the Great Hall of the People officially held Chairman Mao's condolence ceremony , and more than 300,000 representatives from all parties attended.
Finally, hundreds of thousands of people who attended the memorial service bowed three times to Chairman Mao’s portrait, and the 500-person military band performed "Oriental Red" live, and then the memorial service ended.
This memorial meeting for Chairman Mao can be said to have created many world-class best. For example, the number of people wearing black veils is as long as a month. There are so many mourning halls arranged in
. There are only 284 mourning halls in Yiyang, Hunan Province and 271 wreaths are laid in the central mourning hall.
Finally, the memorial service was so large, with "sub-venues" all over the country, and factories across the country were shut down that afternoon, and schools were closed for classes and stores closed.
Then Chairman Mao’s body was preserved and permanently treated, and placed in crystal coffin for people to pay homage.
But in fact, this is not Chairman Mao’s own wish. As early as 1956, Chairman Mao signed the proposal for cremation of the body and also chose a cemetery for himself in Babaoshan Cemetery.
Chairman Mao himself wanted to return to the dust, but in the end, out of political needs, the body was kept forever after the collective decision of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.
But when the people of the whole country were mourning and the international community lowered the flag and sent condolences to mourn Chairman Mao, there was a country who was rude to Chairman Mao and even took advantage of the situation to rob. Who is this country? It is the Soviet Union
After learning that Chairman Mao had passed away, he was the eldest brother of the socialist camp and he would publish a report notice.
But many Moscow newspapers did not mention this at all. In the end, there was only a very niche newspaper, " Message ", which published a few lines of report in a corner of the penultimate edition.
would be fine if it was not reported, but the Soviet Union criticized Mao Zedong Thought through TASS the next day, and published an article threatening China in its leading publication " Pravda ".
article says that after Chairman Mao’s death, if China does not reconcile with the Soviet Union within a month, then they may take certain "irreversible decisions", which is a naked threat.
Why did the Soviet Union have to touch the Chinese people’s reverse scales on such days? The reason for is that "China and the Soviet Union have had evil forces."
In fact, in the early days of the founding of New China, we had a very good relationship with the Soviet Union, and at that time we also put forward one-sided diplomatic policies.
And the Soviet Union also assumed the responsibility of the big brother of the socialist camp and allocated a large amount of funds to send a large number of experts.
has helped us build 156 important projects, laying a solid industrial foundation for our country. It is known as the first bridge of the Yangtze River in 30,000 miles and in Wuhan Yangtze River. It was built during this period. But soon after, the relations between the two sides deteriorated. The Soviet Union not only withdrew its experts and aid equipment, but also stationed hundreds of thousands of troops in the Far East . The root cause of the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations is the Soviet Union's attitude of claiming to be the "Laozi Party".
For example, in 1958, the Soviet Union proposed to establish long-wave radio station on China's territory and on the sea, which obviously violated China's sovereignty.
Because China's technical level was weak at that time, it lacked a professional talent team. Once the long-wave radio and the common fleet are built, it means that China will be controlled by the Soviet Union by the military, and becomes a vassal state of the Soviet Union, just like the US military base stationed in Japan today.
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And this situation is something that the central leaders do not want to see, so Chairman Mao directly rejected the Soviet Union's request.
But when the Soviet Union saw that its "little brother" refused to be controlled by itself, he became furious and began to get involved with China.
In addition, the Sino-Soviet conflicts also stem from differences between the two sides on ideology .
In 1956, in response to the Cold War of the United States, Khrushchev proposed the "Three Harmony Route", that is, peaceful transition, peaceful competition, and peaceful coexistence
. This sounds beautiful, right? But in fact, it was the Soviet Union decided to share the world with the United States.
Khrushchev
Then all countries in the socialist camp must ced their interests for the Soviet Union's strategy, and the Soviet Union's " revisionist " has thus appeared on the stage of history.
And these countries as sacrifices include China, but China has its own sovereignty and interest demands, how can it obey the Soviet Union?
For this reason, Chairman Mao personally presided over and published nine articles from September 6, 1963 to July 14, 1964 to comment on Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which is the famous "Nine Comments on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" in history.
Since then, the relationship between China and the Soviet Union has fallen into a trough of 18 years. It was not until 1982 that General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev, delivered a Tashkent speech, and Sino-Soviet relations thawed.
When Chairman Mao passed away in 1976, Sino-Soviet relations were still in a low state, so the Soviet Union was rude and even took advantage of the situation to threaten China.
It can be seen from this that the weak are always bullied, and only by being strong can they truly be independent.
Thanks to the great man for his persistence, letting China lay the foundation for self-improvement and leave a free blue sky for future generations.
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