SOS Chapter 37

Aspects of Propaganda

A. A Culture of One Voice

(During the Cultural Revolution, China was filled with slogans such as) �Supreme instructions,� �One sentence (of Mao) carries the weight of ten thousand sentences, each one is the truth.� All media were roused to sing the praises and collectively speak in support of the Party. When needed, leaders from every level of the Party, government, military, workers, youth league and women�s organizations would be brought out to express their support. Everyone had to go through the ordeal.

B. A Culture to Promote Violence

Mao Zedong said, �With 800 million people, how can it work without struggle?� In the persecution of Falun Gong, Jiang Zemin said, �No punishment for beating Falun Gong practitioners to death.� The CCP advocated �total war,� and �the atomic bomb is simply a paper tiger� even if half of the population died, the remaining half would still reconstruct our homeland from the ruins.�

C. A Culture to Incite Hatred

It becomes a fundamental national policy �not to forget the suffering of the (poor) classes, and to firmly remember the enmity in tears and blood.� Cruelty towards class enemies was praised as a virtue. The CCP taught �Bite into your hatred, chew it and swallow it down. Plant the hatred into your heart so that it sprouts.� [83]

D. A Culture of Deception and Lies

(Here are a few examples of the CCP�s lies.) �The yield per mu [84] is over ten thousand jin� during the Great Leap Forward (1958). �Not a single person was killed on Tiananmen Square� during the June 4th massacre in 1989. �We have controlled the SARS virus� in 2003. �It is currently the best time for human rights in China.� and the �Three Represents.� [85]

E. The Culture of Brainwashing

(These are a few slogans that the CCP made up to brainwash people.) �There would be no new China without the Communist Party.� �The force at the core leading our cause forward is the CCP and the theoretical basis guiding our thinking is Marxism-Leninism.� [86] �Maintain maximum alignment with the Party�s Central Committee.� �Carry out the party�s command if you understand it. Even if you do not understand, carry it out anyway and your understanding should deepen while carrying out the orders.�

F. A Culture of Adulation

�Heaven and the earth are great but greater still is the kindness of the Party;� �We owe all our achievements to the Party;� �I take the Party as my mother;� �I use my own life to safeguard the Central Committee of the Party.� �A great, glorious and correct party.� �An undefeatable party,� and so on.

G. The Culture of Pretentiousness

The Party established models and set up examples one after another, and launched the �socialist ideological and ethical progress� and �ideological education� campaigns. In the end, people continued to do whatever they did before each campaign. All of the public lectures, study sessions, and experience sharing have become an �earnest showcase,� and society�s moral standard has continued to take great leaps backward.