In the winter of 1973, a normal re-election of the Youth League Branch was held. The theme of the re-election was the determination of the list of candidates for the new Youth League Branch. The theme of the re-election was the democratic centralism. At the enlarged meeting of the Youth League Branch Committee, a fierce debate was triggered.
The cause of the incident should have started from the winter of the year 71. At that time, the deputy secretary of the workshop party branch, also known as Deputy Instructor Lin, was in charge of the youth education work in the workshop according to the internal division of labor of the workshop party branch committee at that time. According to him, in order to facilitate the work, the original secretary of the workshop was changed to the deputy secretary of the workshop, and he himself served as the secretary of the workshop party branch to reflect the importance of the workshop party branch to youth work. At the same time, he also increased the number of branch committee members from three to five.
He did this without the collective study of the workshop party branch or the discussion of the Youth League branch committee. Instead, he used his position to announce it directly at the workshop meeting. At that time, the more than twenty members in the workshop did not raise any different opinions for the sake of the overall situation. Everyone silently agreed.
In the winter of 1973, according to the unified arrangements of the higher-level Youth League Committee, the work of the re-election of the workshop branch began. At the beginning of the expanded meeting of the League Branch Committee, Deputy Instructor Lin of our workshop, who is also the secretary of the League Branch, first threw out a list of candidates for the new League Branch Committee. He wanted everyone to seize the time to discuss and strive for a quick pass. In order to let the new branch get into the role as soon as possible.
In this list, he removed all four members from the previous five branch committee members except for himself. In addition, he mentioned the names of four people. After Deputy Instructor Lin finished his opinion at the meeting, he immediately asked everyone to vote by a show of hands.
There were nearly twenty people attending the meeting. I'm honored to be one of them. At the beginning of the meeting, no one was willing to speak. Anyone who attended the meeting could easily see that behind this silence was like a volcano that was about to erupt. Hot magma could erupt at any time. Due to some political pressure in the general environment at that time, no one was willing to be the first to speak. Anyone could see that everyone was waiting for the best opportunity to speak.
At that time, I was sitting in an inconspicuous corner of the conference room. A member of the team was discussing something with me in a low voice. I can't remember.
At this time, Assistant Instructor Lin suddenly called the name of the member who was talking to me in a low voice and asked him to express his opinion immediately. Do you agree with the five comrades just proposed at the meeting (including Deputy Instructor Lin) as the candidates for the new Youth League Branch Committee?
The member stood up reluctantly and said loudly,"First, you are the Deputy Secretary of the Party Branch of the workshop. You're the secretary of the workshop's Youth League branch, so you can have the final say. It's an order, I'll obey it; it's the branch's decision, I have no objections. Besides, you've already decided on the capital, so why do you still want us to discuss it?，As long as you're happy, you can decide however you want. When you're sure, remember to announce it at the workshop. We'll just hear it. There's no need for a meeting. Why did it waste both the motor and electricity, and waste time?”As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately sat down and stopped talking.
This sentence immediately caused a wave of whispers in the venue. Everyone began to whisper to each other. There was a buzz of a small meeting in the meeting. The buzz of the small meeting became louder and louder, but no one officially spoke at the meeting.
The venue continued to maintain the silence, but the atmosphere was already very abnormal. At this moment, Assistant Instructor Lin suddenly called my name."Shi Jianhua, weren't you talking so enthusiastically downstairs just now? Why didn't you say anything when I asked you to? If you have anything to say, please say it at the meeting.”
I subconsciously stood up and looked at all the members present. I couldn't help but nod at everyone and say," Comrades, to be honest, I didn't intend to express any opinions at this meeting. My original thoughts were exactly the same as the speaker's. Anyway, the entire regiment branch belongs to you, Deputy Instructor Lin. You can do whatever you want. I don't think the change of the Youth League branch is that complicated. There was no need to hold any expansion meetings. Mobilizing, discussing, and voting were all unnecessary. Since every member had the right to be elected. The leader can decide whatever he wants. We just have to obey. But just now, Assistant Instructor Lin called my name at the meeting. It seems that he wants me to speak. Since you want me to speak, I want to say my true thoughts at the meeting of the Youth League. However, I would like to ask the leaders here first if they want me to tell the truth or lie. If you want to lie, we have no objections. We will obey whatever the leader decides. There is no need to discuss it anymore. To tell the truth, I don't dare. I've always been timid and timid. I don't have the guts, and I'm especially afraid of being labeled and beaten. Here, I just want to make a request to the leaders. At today's meeting, as a member of the League, could he freely express his opinions at the meeting of the Youth League? Could the leaders not beat the stick or put labels on the speakers who raised different opinions? If the leader can agree to this, I will express my personal opinion. If not, I will not speak.”
Then, he turned to look at Assistant Instructor Lin. After looking at the others with hopeful eyes, I sat down.
The deputy secretary of the Youth League branch stood up and nodded at me with a serious face. He answered loudly, I think so." Then, he turned his head to face Assistant Instructor Lin and asked loudly,""Assistant Instructor Lin, what do you think?”
Assistant Instructor Lin couldn't help but stand up and look at everyone in the venue. Many of them had already started to express their opinions loudly. Since there were members who requested to express different opinions at the Youth League meeting, there was no reason not to let them speak. This was also their right.
Assistant Instructor Lin could already see that more and more people were openly expressing their dissatisfaction with his actions today. There were already signs of unrest in the venue. What he was more worried about was that he might not be able to control the atmosphere at the venue today.
So he had no choice but to nod at me and say,"I agree to your request. Please continue speaking. Tell me the truth."
I stood up again and tried to control my excitement. I couldn't help but raise my voice and slow down my tone."I'll make it clear first. You asked me to tell you the truth. One of the organizational principles of the Youth League was called democratic centralism. Every member had the right to vote and be elected. To tell the truth, I have always believed that as long as it is among all the members of our workshop branch. They are all my comrades. It doesn't matter to me who is elected as the member of the Youth League branch. However, there were some things that had to be explained to everyone: Let all the members of our branch understand. What happened to the other four members of the Youth League branch other than you, Deputy Instructor Lin? What major mistake did he make? Even if the four of them made a mistake, wouldn't you, the branch secretary, have no responsibility at all? Why did the last five branch committee members, except for you, Deputy Instructor Lin, disappear from the list of candidates? To tell the truth, I'll never understand it again. The members of the branch didn't know how the two members of the branch were appointed. If we don't know, then we might as well not know to the end. Let's just be confused for once. It was rare to be muddle-headed. The matter had already passed, so let's just let it go. Now you want to kick out all four of the branch committee members. You have to have a reason, right? Did they violate any rules or political issues? The Youth League Branch Committee had to give all the members of the branch an explanation for such a major change. Do we need to be confused again? We need to be confused again. That's fine too, but he had to inform her beforehand. As the leader of the Youth League branch, since you really don't want to explain these things clearly at the branch meeting, why do you need us to sit here and trouble ourselves to hold a meeting? It would be better if you just announced it at the workshop. We really don't know. He never wanted to understand why some people always liked to play these tricks, treating the masses as fools and himself as Zhuge Liang. What's the point of this? Is this how revolutionary work must be done in our Third Company? Since that's the case, then we'll never know anything and be confused forever. Why do we have to attend this meeting?”
Assistant Instructor Lin continued,""I want to explain the situation. I plan to assign these four comrades to other jobs.”
I immediately interrupted him." This is a meeting of the Youth League. It's about the Youth League. According to the rules of the League, the list of candidates for the League branch should be democratically elected by all the members of the Youth League. It should not be directly appointed by the League Branch Secretary.”
Assistant Instructor Lin immediately retorted and rudely interrupted me,"To be sure, the organizational principle still has to be democratic centralism. Everyone could recommend candidates, but the final decision was still made by the leaders. Those who were elected did not necessarily become branch committee members, and those who were not elected did not necessarily mean that they could not become branch committee members.”
I was also anxious. I immediately increased my tone and retorted loudly,"Then why are you still here? Was there any point in mentioning candidates here? Could it be that this is your version of democratic centralism? In other words, you don't have to acknowledge any of the branch committee members elected by our entire guild. In the end, we still have to follow your lead. Is my understanding correct?"
Assistant Instructor Lin still smiled and replied,""You're too straightforward. However, the result was similar. This was because the Youth League would ultimately have to accept the leadership of the Chinese People's Political Party.”
"Can you represent the party?”I can't wait to shout it out loud
This time, it was like pouring a ladle of oil on a burning flame, finally igniting the fire in everyone's hearts.
Many people stood up and spoke first. They were already very dissatisfied with Assistant Instructor Lin's interruption."This is outrageous!"
It was like a volcanic eruption in the venue. The atmosphere was unusually tense and intense. Everyone stood up to speak one after another. They raised sharp criticisms against Deputy Instructor Lin's self-righteous suppression of democratic practices in the past few years. Some of the comrades who raised their opinions were passionate, some were kind, and some were full of sarcasm. There were many ways to speak.
The meeting started at 1 p. m. and lasted until 7 p. m., a full six hours. Assistant Instructor Lin, who was the host of the meeting, had repeatedly asked for the meeting to end, but everyone had sternly refused.
Many people demanded that the meetings of the Youth League should reflect a serious and lively political situation. In the past few years, the workshop had never held a meeting like this. It was not easy to hold a meeting like this. If everyone had something on their mind, they should let them speak and make it clear.”
The meeting continued. After a serious discussion, through a genuine democratic election, the list of candidates for the new Workshop League Branch Committee was finally determined. Only then did everyone leave the venue in high spirits. At this time, I couldn't help but turn around and look at Deputy Instructor Lin standing at the door of the workshop office. His face still maintained the mysterious smile as he nodded to everyone. Behind me, someone suddenly said something mischievous,"He finally encountered it today. The meeting that was originally planned to be quite good actually ended up like this today. Although he still had that smile on his face, he looked worse than if he was crying.”
Everyone burst into laughter.
In a flash, it was the beginning of 1974. The head office was going to hold a cultural performance, and all the units had to organize programs. Our factory has also organized a literature and art publicity team to rehearse programs every day. At that time, I was also transferred to the publicity team. At that time, there was a program called group speech, which was used to publicize and criticize Lin and Kong. He needed a few wooden rifles as props.
Please look at the next section,"Who Broke the Bayonet?"
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