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Chairman Maozedong's 110th birthday
wchao37 Updated: 2003-12-24 07:56
As these words were written in Mao Zedong's online mausoleum in commemoration of his 110th birthday......
......... tears welled up in my eyes and I began to choke up with emotions:
Without Mao Zedong, it would have been impossible for China to have achieved what her people enjoy today: political unity, social tranquility and material prosperity.
China is the center of the world's attention today because of what this one man and his cohorts did.
There are those who say that Mao should have started modernization earlier, but the people who make that kind of remark do not understand the international situation in his time, i.e. the stranglehold China's foes had on her in all areas -- military, economic and political. New China began in 1949 as the proverbial fish on the chopping board, forced either to kneel and surrender or stand up and fight for her own destiny.
To a man the Chinese people chose to stand up under Mao.
Thereafter over a span of a quarter century came the two military victories in Korea and Vietnam, in which his People's War doctrine was put to the test and proven invincible -- in both cases peasant armies overwhelmed a ultra-modern army in close-range nghttime warfare.
With the atomic bomb first detonated in 1964 and the satellite launched successfully in 1970, China secured her mainland borders against all possible foreign invaders.
Additional military and scientific victories enabled China to enjoy a respite long enough to engineer a socialist experiment before she turned her full attention to economic reconstructon under Deng and others.
We the Chinese people know that Chairman Mao Zedong's blessing on us is non-repayable, and we should at least honor him as a great mortal with skin and bones -- not an inscrutable God -- on his ll0th birthday. It is unforgivable to dwell only on the great man's mistakes and downplay his overwhelmingly positive achievements.
He did not convert water into wine or resurrect the diseased. He certainly did not walk on water or feed five thousand people with a basketful of bread and fish.
He did not call for terrorist assassinations or bombings hurting innocent bystanders just because his soldiers were not as well-equipped as their opponents.
Every deed of his was aboveboard and committed to the welfare of the oppressed peoples of China and the world.
Every nation big or small, rich or poor, black or white, was treated equally by the China under his rule.
His blessings extended to the entire planet.
That's why today, 12-26-03, the entire Spaceship Earth remembers him as one of its greatest passengers in its entire 4.6-billion year journey.
Chairman Mao, how we miss and love you !!!
Wei Chao, M.D.
Hongkong
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