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Terror in the Cities. With "land reform" launched, Lo turned his attention to the cities. He had one piece of advice: "Two ways are open to all counterrevolutionaries : the way of death for those who resist, and the way of life for those who confess." People were told that by registering their names and stating their past misdeeds (such as having served the Nationalists), all would be forgiven...
...Lo soon saw that the real resistance to Communist regimentation lay not in the rifles of a few thousand guerrillas, but in millions of hearts. In 1950 he told a Peking Public Security Administration Conference that the suppression of "counterrevolutionaries" was the first necessity of the new state, that it would be a continuing necessity, and its scope and difficulties would increase rather than decrease as the revolution continued. On this thesis Lo built his rise to power...
...outset Lo had used Chinese Red army troops for his pacification act. The Conference authorized him to create a new, politically conscious People's Armed Police like the Soviet MVD militia. Lo recruited and trained, technically and ideologically, thousands of trusted party workers and intellectuals, at the same time purging the existing forces of doubtful elements. He soon fashioned an organization of some eight interlocking bureaus specializing in intelligence, counterespionage, personnel, economic defense (i.e., preventing strikes, collecting taxes), frontier defense, anti-guerrilla work, supervising forced labor camps and normal police duties. Total strength: approximately...
With this army of Communists, Lo and his comrades carried out one of the greatest collections of purges in history. They had the Russian experience to lean upon, and they were thus able to avoid the fumbling experiments in mass liquidation made by the early Soviet Chekists. But they worked with a cold-blooded calculation that the Russians, with their basically Christian sense of guilt (evident in this week's Moscow disclaimers) never achieved. The Chinese Communists were so certain of their moral right to kill for the revolution that they attempted at every opportunity to make the people...
Terrorist Lo had to warn his comrades, as recently as last July, against "boundless magnanimity." He regaled the National People's Congress with horror stories of the resisters still around, then dramatically asked: "Deputies, can any one of you be tolerant with these heinous and inhuman counterrevolutionaries? Can any one who has heard of such horrible conspiracies still comfort himself with the feeling that counter-revolutionaries are nothing but 'a few small fish that cannot create waves?' " Back in 1951, when Lo's army of terrorists set to work, the fish were many and the waves...