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Mao Zedong Propaganda

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After the Chinese Communist Party overthrow the ROC government and seized power in 1949. The CCP has created false history to depict ROC’s ruling as a period of an “Old Evil Society” in order to emphasize the CCP’s seizure power and the legitimacy of its ruling.
However, recently Recently, we continue to see that the CCP positively redefined some of the historical legacy of the "evil society" and even make those become an important national propaganda campaign.
On September 3 last year, the CCP uncharacteristically held a grand celebration and an unprecedented parade on the anniversary of the Victory of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Furthermore, the official announced the first batch of 80 national-level memorial facilities as well as the list …show more content…

Sun Yat-sen, the great forerunner of the Chinese revolution, and our ancestors instructed us, We have done their behest, and we have done so now. "- September 1949, Mao Zedong, the first plenary session of the CPPCC opening speech.
In his early revolutionary career, Mao Zedong had made puzzling comments on the revolution led by Sun and his Three People's Principles. In Mao's view, the Three People's Principles are conceptually compatible with communism, especially in the doctrine of the people's livelihood, and both of them have nature of revolution in common. As for Mao's interpretation of the connection between the Three People's Principles and Communism, it is a series of seemingly clear but logically disordered analyzes. In fact, Mao regarded Sun Yat-sen as a "precious legacy" and advocated "a sober mind to raise the banner of Sun Yat-sen." This shows that Mao's admiration for Dr. Sun Yat-sen is an instrumental application, therefore, his purpose is nothing more than use the name of Sun Yat-sen to prove the legitimacy of its rule and attempt to appeal the majority of overseas Chinese. Since Mao set Sun Yat-sen's historical orientation, the CCP held commemorative activities every Sun Yat-sen's birthday and anniversary. And every ten years, commemorative activities …show more content…

Since 1986, In CCP leaders’ commemorating speech, in addition to continuing to praise Sun as a "national heroes", "patriots" and "revolutionary forerunner", also began to emphasize "national unity" and " opposing Taiwan’s persut of independence " up to now. All in all, as we can see that there isn’t any words regarding democracy which is a core value in Sun’s politcal belief.
Today, for the CCP regime, its natural enemy, KMT, has gradually faded, and replaced by the emerging threat of Democratic Progress Party which has a distinct ideology of Taiwan independence. Ironically, in the era when Chiang-led KMT was still the number one enemy of the Communist, from separatists who are in pursuit of Taiwan independence to frustrated politicians from the KMT were targets that the CCP was eager to rope in to sabotage Taiwan’s internal

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