Thread by @hz_udhr

To answer the CCP’s call to celebrate its 100th anniversary, I am writing a long thread that will end on July 1st, its birthday, trying once more to convince people that the CCP is not a communist political organization as it claims and many Westerners believe, but a mafia.
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https://twitter.com/VoCommunism/status/1385309508143038471

The Chinese word for this type of organization is 帮会 or 黑帮. The following thread is my prior attempt 👇
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https://twitter.com/hz_udhr/status/1134108171793031168?s=20

The CCP has remained the same since its founding. The middle school dropout (MSD) has been repeatedly emphasizing this. This makes it possible to see the CCP’s nature by looking at a snapshot of a period.
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I will choose the WWII period (i.e., Yan’an Era) and use the interesting book The Vladimirov Diaries (a.k.a. Yan’an Diaries in China) to reveal the true face of the CCP – deceitful, dishonest, secretive, brutal, no ideological conviction, everything is about power.
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Peter Vladimirov was a TASS reporter, then Comintern liaison officer officially. I think he was also doing intelligence work for the USSR. The USSR founded the CCP in 1921 as their puppet in China and was their major financier for a long time.
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The CCP, like any mafia, does not trust anyone including their master – the USSR. Kang Sheng, the CCP’s spy chief, had his agents spying on everyone from the USSR. The cook assigned to Vladimirov by Kang was apparently for spying on him.
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Please note that Mao told Vladimirov upon his arrival that democratic freedoms are a sacred element of CCP’s program.
The CCP’s Yan’an story is a fairly fascinating one of a mafia’s internal factional fight.
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Shaannxi was the turf of Liu Zhidan, Gao Gang and Xi Zhongxun (the MSD’s father). When Mao fled to Yan’an with his troops (the so-called Long March), he brutally purged all of them and rehabilitated them later only after he solidified his base.
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Liu, a graduate of Whampoa Academy, created the communist base in the region through a series of battles and was widely admired. As the commander of an army, he was strangely killed in a battle ordered by Mao. It is rumored to be a murder.
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TBC

The USSR was the leader of the communist world then, but the CCP became outright hostile to Soviets when they saw German troops approaching Moscow and felt it could be the end of their master that gave birth to them.
CCP leaders claimed to be too busy to just meet Vladimirov.
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The USSR desperately wanted China to fight the Japanese hard to prevent them from attacking the USSR from the east. When the fate of China was at stake, Mao started the massive Yan'an Rectification Movement to consolidate his power in the name of correcting wrong styles.
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The CCP troops retreat to mountains whenever the Imperial Japanese Army attacks. The USSR was greatly frustrated. When they needed the CCP’s help the most after giving so much to it for decades, the CCP showed little interest in lending a hand.
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One should never count on the CCP to show any gratitude. Japan and America played key roles in CCP’s wealth-building for the past 4 or 5 decades, they are their top enemies now.
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TBC

US journos Snow, Strong, and Smedley gave the title of “avowed genius” to Mao. Smedley, who boasted sleeping w/ all colors and shapes, was a Mao’s protector. When Mao’s 3d wife caught him sleeping w/ a mistress and started hitting him, Smedley knocked her out with a punch.
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See how the CCP treated the communist movement leader that founded and funded the CCP.
In summary, the CCP, like any other mafia, is primarily interested in solidifying its power and expanding its territory even during a national or international crisis.
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If you think the CCP’s implicit support of flooding the US with fentanyl is evil, what about this:
When China was invaded, instead of fighting the invaders, the CCP’s troops grew opium to make money to buy weapons to kill those fighting the invaders for their country.
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There were 4 factions in the CCP. Mao’s mafia-like faction became dominant, and the most communist doctrine conformant faction headed by Wang Ming was most severely purged.
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Jiang Qing climbed the CCP ladder through 5 lovers each of them is a step higher than the previous one. She reached the summit by becoming Mao’s consort.
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The CCP was trading with the enemy – Imperial Japanese Army – extensively while KMT troops were fighting bloody battles with them. Their governed area was flooded with Japanese goods. The 120th division (1 of the 3 CCP’s major ones) set up a factory to produce opium.
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Mao had chronic loathe to intelligentsia who are more likely to think independently than peasants and workers. He used political campaigns to purify them spiritually and use “screening” to purge those who could not be “purified”.
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Vladimirov strongly believes that Mao deliberately poisoned his main rival Wang Ming who was favored by Moscow and was a de facto CCP head at one point.
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Yan'an Rectification Movement is effectively a purge campaign with terror. Spymaster Kang Sheng’s intelligence department, the most vested one, saw 80% of its staff pleading guilty. Nine out of 10 Central Hospital workers were accused of espionage. Some orgs have 100%.
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Mao “did everything to evade the struggle against the invaders and was preparing his army for civil war against the Kuomintang” which was fighting the invaders with one bloody battle after another.
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Mao hated the Comintern that led the international communist movement because it challenged his right to his exclusive undivided leadership of the CCP.
A mafia’s head should have no superiors by default.
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The CCP’s Politburo sanctioned a de facto SOE for opium production and trade w/ a target of 1.2M liangs (60,000 kg). The opium SOE is the 120th infantry division of the 8th Route Army that has only three divisions.
Remember the CCP keeps reminding people of the Opium Wars.
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Mao “has a poor knowledge of Western philosophy, and his ideas of Marxism are vulgar.” He “scorns everything that is not Chinese”
The MSD, current CCP head, looks a lot like Mao.
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The commander of the CCP’s army (8th Rt Army) Zhu De and its Chief of Staff Ye Jianying were effectively relieved of their duty by Mao at one point b/c they belonged to a wrong CCP faction.
Mao was busy fighting political enemies while the KMT was busy fighting the invaders.
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When the USSR survived and the tide turned against the 3rd Reich, the CCP’s attitude toward the USSR immediately started to turn in the positive direction from animosity. This is a typical mafia behavior – opportunistic.
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Some classified CCP internal letters show excruciating details about how Mao acted like a mafia head to purge his political enemies. In the name of cleansing “Anti-Bolshevik League”, he killed 5K to 10K Red Army commanders and soldiers from 1930 to 1931.
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One letter describes Mao as “a very sly and treacherous man… His head is full of vain thoughts. His way of influencing his comrades is through orders and threats and a system of repressions”
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Mao told Vladimirov: “It was not necessary to know Marxism-Leninism to lead China!” He calls those following Soviet communist doctrines dogmatists
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Mao tried, especially through the CCP’s Chongqing mission, to convince the West that the CCP was pro-democracy and the only force to have prospects in China. Some Westerners bought it.
The KMT did have corruption. Unlike the CCP, it does not know how to put up a good show.
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Generalissimo Chiang opposed the US military delegation to visit CCP’s area, but President Roosevelt sent a telegram to demand the permission and Chiang obliged.
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Mao played Americans also by hinting that the USSR would take over China with the help of the CCP if the Americans did not provide military aid to the CCP to make it side with the US.
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Mao contemplated renaming the CCP by replacing “communist” with another word more pleasing to Americans during the US missions’ stay in Yan’an.
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Mao was so successful in wooing Americans that Major General Hurley at the conclusion of his visit wrote Roosevelt with glowing words about the CCP that promised him their commitment to a democratic China.
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Mao “has no friends, only people he needs…He appreciates only those whom he needs at the moment”.
According to him, “power is the only thing worth living for. That is the justification for everything.”
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“Mao meets many people, but for all that he is singularly unsociable and even lonely. This loneliness is somehow final and cruel to the point of being dangerous.”

You cannot find a single person that Mao trusted permanently. He purged many close and loyal to him.
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Mao regards principles as a collection of commitments by others, or rules to find others, but he is free from them.
This is how the CCP nowadays treats laws and rules that are meant for ordinary people or other countries, but they are above them.
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BTW, Vladimirov is no exception for the CCP to send obliging girls to work on him. The CCP has never stopped using this trick.
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“Mao’s philosophical and theoretical level is primitive materialism. He was always afraid of the democratic instincts of the masses... His democratism s confined to his wearing the plain coat, to which on special occasions patches are sewed on in abundance”
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“What the Chinese people are expecting from the national government now is the immediate abolition of the one-party dictatorship” – Zhou Enlai (1945, Chongqing)
The CCP was ALWAYS against dictatorship until it became the dictator.
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“Delusions are like the counterfeit coins: they are made by criminals but are spread by the most honest persons”
The CCP has constantly produced delusions for the Western useful idiots to spread.
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An article in Life by Theodore White published in December 1944 apparently took the word of the CCP at its face value and regarded the show put up by the CCP as the reality in their controlled area.
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“Whatever the subject, Mao invariably directs the talk to his hobbyhorse – class struggle. Daily, hourly…”
Mao masterfully used class struggle to solidify and maintain his power until his last breath.
#ccp100
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Mao assured Vladimirov that the girls sent to him are healthy. After this assurance, a college girl went to his room to tidy up the house.
Many senior CCP leaders got rid of their old wives and married young college girls in Yan’an many of whom were teenagers.
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When the US announced its intention to collaborate only with the KMT, Mao “burst into abuse, cursing the Americans”, and immediately turned to the USSR that he was back-stabbing not long ago.
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The CCP’s 7th Congress in 1945 was delayed by Mao for 5 yrs to allow him to consolidate power and was the 1st to recognize Mao’s absolute power officially. The sun in the east rose.
Here is a Mao’s trick to handle the brutality in his power-grabbing impossible to conceal:
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As mentioned before, he took over the CCP’s Shaanxi base by purging its leaders after the Long March. In the congress’s report, he put the blame on the Red Army commanders executing the ruthless murdering of the original base cadres and positioned him as a savior.
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Reporters could take notes at the 1945 Congress, but their notebooks were not allowed to go out of the venue. Secrecy is one of the hallmarks of the CCP. We still do not know all the details of the conference 76 years ago.
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In the speech of Lo Fu, a one-time CCP head, “He belittles in every way the value of Marxism, which he alleges is fruitless for the Chinese revolution without the ‘Ideas of Mao Zedong;”
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Mao “regards Marxism as a ‘unique cover’ for shaping a social movement entirely independent of and different from the Marxist movement.”
The CCP uses Marxism whenever it serves its needs and ignores it when it is inconvenient (e.g., for amassing the wealth of its leaders.)
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Vladimirov stumbled on a staff report that confirms the CCP leadership and the supreme command of the Japanese expeditionary forces maintained a permanent communication channel for a very long time.
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The CCP actually had a liaison officer at the Japanese HQ. They were colluding with, not fighting the enemy. They effectively stopped fighting in late 1940. A military report at the 7th Congress stated the fighting should have stopped earlier.
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“The CCP Congress means preparation for a civil war…everything was reduced to the struggle with Kuomintang”.
Sadly, the US had the illusion that the CCP could join a peace effort later hence missed opportunities to crush it.
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After the Japanese surrender, the CCP’s secret order to its troops was to destroy KMT troops as much as possible, but later Mao publicly stated in Chongqing that unity at home was a “task of paramount importance, an urgent necessity.
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The CCP publicly blamed the KMT for starting a civil war just like they are blaming the West for a new cold war now after they have been fighting an asymmetric economic war against the West for decades.
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As for the credibility of The Vladimirov Diaries, though not all statements can be verified, I have not found a single one that contradicts what I have learned from other sources (e.g., the CCP’s collusion with the invading Japanese Army, its opium production,
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the brutality of Yan'an Rectification Movement, Mao’s adulterous life…). This book is more or less the confirmation of many well-known events with its own unique details.
The disorganization of the book is more like genuine diaries than fabrication.
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This thread is not about which of communism or mafia is better or worse, but for understanding the CCP’s past and postulating its future.
I respect it if you still hold the prevailing view that the CCP is just another communist organization.
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However, I would love to hear how you use any communist classics (e.g., The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, The State and Revolution) to explain any of the CCP’s past and current behaviors:
Past:
1. Despising the international communist organization (Comintern).
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2. Backstabbing a communist country under existential threat (the USSR).
3. After fleeing the main base due to defeat, purging the communist leaders of a successful strong base
4. Colluding with invading fascists and sabotaging those fighting the fascists.
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5. Large-scale militarized opium production and distribution.
6. Brutally purging the faction that sticks to the communist principles.
7. Courting the #1 capitalist country and contemplating removing “communist” from its name.
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Current:
1. All top officials’ families control directly or indirectly corporations which capitalists exploit ordinary workers who are effectively banned from organizing.
2. Create wealth disparity higher than the most capitalist country.
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3. Genocide (not political purging).
4. Crackdown on genuine young Marxists.

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