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then the approval of class status was decided first through the analysis
of the land investigation committee, which was then referred to
the Poor Peasant Corps for discussion and confirmation. It was further
sent to the District Soviet for approval. Again, it was sent back
to the concerned village to hold a meeting for further explanation
and approval by a show of hands, and then the confiscation was executed.
In distributing the property as well as the land, all the working
personnel understood that they ought to be exemplary, not to
take things but to distribute them entirely among the masses, allocation
more to the village directly involved in the confiscation, and
less to other villages. Thus they obtained complete satisfaction from
the masses. The land was also promptly distributed. While the land
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elsewhere was distributed only after a prolonged delay, there was
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no such a phenomenon in Jentien District. Hence, it promptly
spurred the masses. Their method of first breaking into large and
backward villages, was also correct. They had no fear of these large
villages, nor did they employ barbarous methods to deal with them.
What they did with regard to the large villages was to concentrate
fire power on them, making more and more propaganda beginning
with local activists, to unit and educate them, and through them they
reached out to other masses. With great patience they went on to
carry through the village, the work of this nature. In appearance it
looked tedious but in practice NOT it was FOR fast. In a period of fifty-five
days they have spurred without exception all the large backward villages
of Jentien District and in a very short time stamped out backwardness
of these COMMERCIAL
villages. They could not break into a village of
Pokang hsiang. There were previously two “big tigers” who were
restive all the time. They took a different method. First they captured
these two rascals and convicted them in circuit court held in
the locality. With DISTRIBUTION
the masses’ enthusiastic support they were executed
by a firing squad. Thereupon the mass struggle became intensive
like a violent fire. They held ten mass tribunals and three
circuit courts. All these followed the extremely broad mass line with
many residents of the hsiang attending and other hsiang sending representatives
from each village — a small hsiang sending a score of
people or so, a large hsiang forty to fifty people. Therefore, every
public trial and the result of a tribunal were all at once relayed to
the hsiang and all villages of the entire district. It enabled them not
only to punish or execute individuals who deserved it, but also to
think immediately that the same dealing will have to be accorded to