1. Mao Zemin, Chairman Mao's eldest brother. Due to Mao Zemin's poor health, the organization originally arranged for him to travel from Xinjiang to the Soviet Union for treatment, but at that time the plague occurred on the Sino-Soviet border and the road was blocked by , and he was stranded in Xinjiang.
At this time Sheng Shicai asked our party to send a group of cadres to help Xinjiang build (the position of Sheng Shicai at this time is pro-Communist and pro-Soviet). Mao Zemin was dispatched by the Party Central Committee in 1938 to serve successively as director of the Xinjiang Provincial Finance Department and Civil Affairs Department. In 1943, he was secretly killed by Sheng Shicai, who had fallen to Chiang Kai-shek.
It was not until July 1946 that Shengshi released a group of members of our party. When they returned to Yan'an, they found that there was no Mao Zemin. They finally confirmed that Mao Zemin had died in 1943 and was only 47 years old.
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_strong 2. Mao’s brother. In August 1934, the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" failed. The main force of the Red Army broke through and transferred. Mao Zetan stayed in the Soviet area to fight guerrillas.
On April 25, 1935, the rest of the independent division led by Mao Zetan was surrounded by the enemy. He retreated to cover his troops and died heroically. He was only 30 years old.
Mao Zetan’s wife He Yi learned the news of Mao Zetan’s sacrifice in May from a notification sent by Chen Yi .And Mao Zetan’s older brothers, Mao Zedong and Mao Zemin, learned about the death of their younger brother from a captured enemy radio station. It was already October 1935, the seventh day after the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi.
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