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- Long March remembered [02], Site of the Zunyi Conference.
[text outlined in red above photograph]: “The Long March is the first of its kind in the annals of history, it is a manifesto, a propaganda force, a seeding-machine. Since Pan Gu divided the heavens from the earth, and the Three Sovereigns and the Five Emperors reigned, has history ever witnessed a long march such as ours? For twelve months we were under daily reconnaissance and bombing from the skies by scores of planes, while on land we were encircled and pursued, obstructed and intercepted by a huge force of several hundred thousand men, and we encountered untold difficulties and dangers on the way; yet by using our two legs we swept across a distance of more than twenty thousand li through the length and breadth of eleven provinces. Let us ask, has history ever known a long march to equal ours? No, never. The Long March is a manifesto. It has proclaimed to the world that the Red Army is an army of heroes, while the imperialists and their running-dogs, Chiang Kai-shek and his like, are impotent. It has proclaimed their utter failure to encircle, pursue, obstruct and intercept us. The Long March is also a propaganda force. It has announced to some 200 million people in eleven provinces that the road of the Red Army is their only road to liberation. Without the Long March, how could the broad masses have learned so quickly about the existence of the great truth that the Red Army embodies? The Long March is also a seeding-machine. In the eleven provinces it has sown many seeds which will sprout, leaf, blossom, and bear fruit, and will yield a harvest in the future. In a word, the Long March has ended in victory for us and defeat for the enemy.” – from Chairman Mao’s essay “On tactics against Japanese imperialism.”
[caption under photograph]: Site of the Zunyi Conference. In January 1935, the Communist Party of China held an expanded meeting of the Central Committee’s Political Bureau here, rectified the “left” opportunist line represented by Wang Ming, and confirmed the leadership position of Comrade Mao Zedong in the Communist Party, causing the Chinese revolution to take the path of victorious development from this point on.
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