Old photos of the Ruijin Red Army Martyrs Memorial Tower (1934) taken by General Geng Biao. Qian Zhuangfei design.
Red Stars shine on China/(US) Edgar Snow ; Dong Leshan translated.—Beijing: Writer Publishing House , 2012.1
Ruijin Red Army Martyrs Memorial Tower is 13 meters high, and the shell-shaped tower body is covered with small stones, symbolizing the condensed formation of countless revolutionary martyrs. The tower is pentagonal shape.
surrounded by inscriptions and tower construction logos by leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Bogu , Xiang Ying, Luo Fu, Wang Jiaxiang, Kaifeng, Deng Fa, Zhang Wentian, etc. The eight vigorous words "Move forward with the blood of the martyrs" are written on the ground in front of the tower of
. They form a complete composition with the Martyrs Tower , expressing the incomparable respect and nostalgia of the people of the Soviet area for the martyrs.
During this period, behind this insurmountable line of defense of the Red Army informal troops? An amazing fact of our era is that in the entire history of the South China Soviet Area, there is no "foreign" foreign observer who has ever entered red zone - the only country in the world ruled by the Communist Party except the Soviet Union.
Therefore, all materials written by foreigners about the South China Soviet Area are second-hand materials. However, these records, whether friendly or hostile, can now confirm several important facts that clearly illustrate the basis of the people's support obtained by the Red Army.
Land has been redistributed, and taxes have been reduced. collective enterprise was established on a large scale; by 1933, there were more than a thousand Soviet cooperatives in Jiangxi alone.
Mass education has made great progress in the Soviet area where the situation is stable. In some counties, the Red Army achieved greater achievements in eliminating illiteracy in three or four years than in any other place in rural China in centuries, which even included the "luxury" mass education experiment conducted by
with the support of Rockefeller in Ding County.
In the Communist Party’s model county, it is said that 80% of the population is cultured - higher than the famous Rockefeller-sponsored county.
Many impartial materials have at least proved this. However, although other aspects of life in this small Soviet Republic are increasingly available for literature, we can only discuss it theoretically, which is not within the scope of this book.
For example, if the Red Army had defended the southern base and consolidated it, what would they have achieved? This immediately brought us into the field of pure speculation, and the conclusions obtained are naturally restricted by subjective factors.
In any case, the speculation about the Southern Soviet Area is now mainly about academic interest. Because by October 1933, Nanjing had launched its fifth and largest anti-communist war.
A year later, the Red Army was finally forced to implement a general retreat. At that time, almost everyone thought it was over and believed that it was a funeral for the Red Army. How serious the error in their estimates was not until almost two years later, because an astonishing incident was about to happen at that time, which made the life of Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek in the hands of the Communist Party. There is little precedent in history for such a comeback. Before that, Chiang Kai-shek really believed in his bragging for a while - he had "eliminated the threat of communism."
