"I did not commit any crimes," I asserted firmly. Their real motive was once again to force me to admit all my alleged crimes. It then dawned on me that this session was in fact prearranged. In the session the officer suddenly asked me whether I had committed my alleged original crime leading to my 8-year sentence. Without any investigation, the officer assembled the entire camp to start a struggle session against me.
Immediately, an inmate accused me of giving something out of it to another prisoner. Two years after I had been in this new camp, I received a parcel from my family. the Cultural Revolution began and I was transferred to another labor camp. Chinese Communists resisted this at first, because struggle sessions conflicted with the Chinese concept of saving face, but struggle sessions became commonplace at Communist Party meetings during the 1930s due to public popularity. The term refers to class struggle ostensibly, the session is held to benefit the target, by eliminating all traces of counterrevolutionary, reactionary thinking. Struggle sessions developed from similar ideas of criticism and self-criticism in the Soviet Union from the 1920s. Two Chinese citizens are branded capitalist roaders and subjected to public torture and humiliation by citizens. During the 1950s when the CCP began the Land Reform movement, poorer peasants seized the land from their landlords, who were given the title of exploiting class (剥削階级), and an estimated 2 million landlords were swiftly executed after being subjected to a struggle session. In general, the victim of a struggle session was forced to admit to various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until he or she confessed.ĭuring Mao's rule, the Chinese people were forced to attend many different types of struggle sessions, sometimes consisting of 100,000 people. A struggle session was a form of public humiliation used by the Communist Party of China to enforce a reign of terror in the Mao Zedong era to shape public opinion and to humiliate, persecute, and/or execute political rivals, so-called class enemies.
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