Chen Yun on Learning Party History

Chen Yun is a great proletarian revolutionist, politician, and outstanding Marxist. He is an important founder of China's socialist economic construction. He is the first generation of the party's central leadership group with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core and Comrade Deng Xiaoping as the core. An important member of the second-generation central leadership group of the party. He has experienced various historical periods in which the party led the people to carry out revolution, construction and reform, and participated in the formulation and implementation of a series of major decisions, which is closely related to the history of the party and the country. Chen Yun attached great importance to the study and research of the Party's history.

The bridal chamber tells the party history to the new wife.

During the Yan'an period, "Chen Yun told his new wife Yu Ruomu the history of the Party in the bridal chamber" was once a good story by the party members and cadres in Yan'an. During Chen Yun's tenure as the head of the Central Organization Department, due to excessive fatigue, the old disease of nosebleeds recurred, which was very serious for a while. In order to take care of his body, the organization selected Yu Ruomu, a student party member from Shanbei Public School, to take care of him.

When I went to work next to Chen Yun, Yu Ruomu later recalled: After I went, I just gave him drops of medicine into his nose on time, and there was nothing more to do. Because the doctor asked for rest, he could not do a lot of work, so he often chatted with me and sometimes asked me to sing revolutionary songs. I sang the Soviet Union's "Motherland March" to him. Get along for a long time, each other will naturally have feelings, the relationship gradually close. One day, he said to me, "I am an honest man. I always do things honestly. You are also an honest man. An honest man can get along well with an honest man." Soon, my second brother Yu Daoyuan came to Yan'an. Comrade Chen Yun took him as the representative of my family and solemnly invited him to explain to him our idea of getting married and solicit his opinions. My second brother had a good impression of Comrade Chen Yun and readily agreed. We got married in March 1938. Our wedding was very simple. On the night of the wedding, Chen Yun only spent one yuan to buy some candies and peanuts. He invited comrades from the Central Organization Department to have a good time, even if it was a wedding. Shortly after the marriage, Chen Yun used three nights to tell me about the history of the Party. Talking about the losses caused to the party by blind activism after the failure of the Great Revolution, the threat to the Party Central Committee caused by the rebellion of Gu Shunzhang and Xiang Zhongfa, and the rescue of Chairman Mao to the party and the Red Army after the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign in the Central Soviet area, and so on. Later, Chen Yun asked me to study in the Central Party School for five months. After graduation, I entered the Mariners-Leniners College. Most of those who gave lectures there were leading comrades of the Central Committee and university students in Yan'an. Chen Yun also went to talk about party building. The content of this course is very serious. He said that a party member should fight to the end for communism, that is, to fight to the death. In Shanghai's words, it is to "die", leaving a deep impression on the students and strengthening everyone's revolutionary belief. This shows that Chen Yun attaches great importance to the study of party history. Chen Yun is 14 years older than Yu Ruomu. At this time, Chen Yun is already a mature revolutionary who has passed the test of life and death, while 19-year-old Yu Ruomu is just a student party member. In Yu Ruomu's words, "The difference in ability and status between the two is too far, and the more they appear to be naive and incompetent in front of him." Chen Yun is equally serious about the education of Party members and their relatives.

Seeking Truth from Facts on the Party History

Chen Yun's research on important issues in the history of the party has always adhered to the principles of historical materialism and seeking truth from facts. He has always insisted that yes is right, no is wrong, knowing is knowing, and not knowing is not knowing. Zhu Jiamu, who once served as Chen Yun's secretary and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, recalled that when he worked next to Chen Yun, he heard him make a lot of expositions on major issues in party history. For example, about the so-called "Wu Hao notice", about the history of the Northeast Liberation War, and so on.

In February 1932, the Shanghai Kuomintang spy agency learned from the traitors that "Wu Hao" was the alias used by Zhou Enlai to establish the Conscious Society in Tianjin, so it came up with a poisonous plan to publish false news about "Wu Hao and others breaking away from the Communist Party" in the newspaper in an attempt to disintegrate the hearts of the Communist Party. during the "cultural revolution," the incident was used by the "gang of four" to attack zhou enlai. Zhou Enlai immediately refuted, pointing out that this is the enemy's rumor. But because Zhou Enlai had left Shanghai for the Central Soviet Area at that time, he did not know about the enemy's conspiracy, and he was not clear about the underground party's refutation of the rumor, so he called Chen Yun. Although Chen Yun was in the temporary Central Committee at that time, he had left Teke and worked for the all China Federation of trade unions. He only knew that the enemy was spreading rumors, but did not know the specific process of refuting the rumors. In order to prevent them from making a fuss about this matter again, in May 1972, at the report meeting on the rectification of the Central Committee, Chen Yun spoke at the group meeting and said that he knew about this matter, and pointed out that for such an important issue in history, the Communist Party members To be responsible, we need to take a responsible attitude to the whole party and the communist movement all over the world. this matter is entirely a conspiracy of the kmt. At the same time, he wrote a written statement and pointed out that "I will now explain in writing that I fully remember this matter. This is a conspiracy of the Kuomintang". After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, many former special science workers of the Central Committee were rehabilitated. The relevant departments convened these comrades to hold a forum to recall the history of underground work. Chen Yun, as the former leader of the Central Special Branch, met with these veteran comrades who had made special contributions to the party on the hidden front. In his speech, Chen Yun mentioned the need to clarify the "Wu Hao Notice. Later, the Central Party History Data Collection Committee, the Central Literature Research Office, and the Central Party History Research Office jointly wrote "The Before and After of Wu Hao's Notice" based on Chen Yun's opinions, and explained with conclusive facts that the "Wu Hao Notice" was completely from The enemy's hand, our party's underground organization adopted ingenious methods to expose it after its publication.

Chen Yun insisted on using the viewpoint of historical materialism to analyze the major issues in the history of the party under specific historical conditions. In July 1983, the Liao-Shen Battle Memorial asked Chen Yun to write the title of the book "Liao-Shen Battle" edited by them. After Chen Yun wanted to read the manuscript, he asked the secretary to sort out "Opinions on Compiling the Book" Liao-Shen Campaign ". He expounded his own views on some sensitive historical issues in the Northeast Liberation War. Chen Yun's analysis of seeking truth from facts is convincing and provides a scientific basis for the correct evaluation of the history of the Northeast Liberation War.

Promoting the resolution of major historical issues of right and wrong within the Party

Before and after the third Plenary session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, Chen Yun stressed the need to restore and adhere to the party's ideological line of seeking truth from facts, take the lead in negating the erroneous policy of "two whats," and actively support the great discussion on the standard of truth. it plays an important role in promoting the solution of major historical issues within the party, such as Deng Xiaoping's comeback, rehabilitating unjust, false and wrong cases, and scientific evaluation of Mao Zedong, and other important issues.

On March 10, 1977, before attending the Central Working Conference, Chen Yun discussed with Hu Qiaomu and solicited the opinions of veteran comrades such as Geng Biao and Wang Zhen. He wrote a written speech of more than 200 words very solemnly. On March 13, Chen Yun made a written speech in the Southwest Group, clearly stating that "For the needs of the Chinese revolution and the Communist Party of China, I heard that some comrades in the Central Committee proposed that Comrade Deng Xiaoping should re-participate in the leadership of the Party Central Committee. It is completely correct and necessary. I fully support it". Chen Yun's opinion was endorsed by most of the comrades present at the meeting. Chen Yun's speech was different from the wrong policy of "two whatevers". The conference staff asked Chen Yun to revise this written speech and publish it in the conference briefing, but he refused. On March 17, Chen Yun spoke at the group meeting and said: "When the time is ripe, let Comrade Deng Xiaoping come out to work. I am very much in favor of it." this is actually another call for deng xiaoping's comeback. Four months later, at the Third Plenary Session of the Tenth Central Committee of the Party, the "Resolution on the Restoration of Comrade Deng Xiaoping" was unanimously passed. Deng Xiaoping's comeback conforms to the requirements of history and conforms to the wishes of the whole party and the people of the whole country. It provides for the smooth convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party and the realization of the shift from "class struggle as the key link" to "economic construction as the center". Important prerequisites.

On November 12 and December 10, 1978, Chen Yun made two speeches at the Central Working Conference, and successively proposed to properly resolve historical issues and redress unjust, false and wrong cases; to realize the "four modernizations", we must be both active and stable. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, Chen Yun fully supported the correction of mistakes and actively promoted the redress of unjust, false and wrong cases. He led the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to be directly responsible for reviewing the redress of Liu Shaoqi, Qu Qiubai and other cases that had a major impact on the whole party and the country, and promoted the process of rectifying chaos.

With the comprehensive development of rectifying chaos, how to correctly evaluate the historical status of Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong Thought has become a major political issue related to the future and destiny of the party and the country. In this regard, Chen Yun repeatedly emphasized, "It is necessary to write down the contributions of Comrade Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong Thought in the 60 years since the founding of the party. Therefore, it is proposed to add a paragraph reviewing the history of the 28 years before the founding of the People's Republic of China. With the entire history of the party, the history before and after liberation, and the role of Comrade Mao Zedong at an important juncture in the middle of 60 years, then Comrade Mao Zedong's achievements and contributions will be summarized more comprehensively, and the historical status of Comrade Mao Zedong will be established. There is a comprehensive basis for upholding and developing Mao Zedong Thought". Chen Yun's opinions played a vital role in unifying the thinking of the whole party.

Chen Yun's exposition on the study and study of party history is the concrete application of the dialectical materialist ideological method of "not only the top, not only the book, only the truth, exchange, comparison, and repetition" that he followed all his life. It still has guiding significance for us to study the "four histories" at present.

Source: Learning Times