(Minghui.org) When I was a child, the picture storybook titled The White Haired Girl changed me by filling me with hatred. In this Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda story, a young girl was sold to a landlord to repay her father’s debt. Her father then committed suicide. Unable to endure the humiliation and slave labor exacted by the landlord, the girl escaped and hid in a cave in the mountains. Due to the lack of sunlight and malnutrition, her skin and hair gradually turned white. Years later, the CCP came and overthrew the landlord. The girl was rescued and reunited with her fiancé, a member of the CCP’s Eighth Route Army.
When I read this story, I got so angry that I cried when the landlord’s mother stabbed the girl in the face with her silver hairpin when the girl dozed off from lack of sleep working day and night.
Just as the hairpin left scars on the girl’s face, it cut deep into my young heart. It was so bad that, whenever I even heard the word “landlord,” I would become enraged. When the drama was performed on stage, one soldier was so incensed that he shot the actor who played the landlord and almost killed him. This is an example of how the CCP’s hate propaganda could literally drive people to insanity.
The White Haired Girl was rolled out in the 1940s, and it took years for that CCP propaganda to sow its seeds of hatred among the general public. Over time, the regime became very experienced and sophisticated at crafting propaganda to successfully brainwash the Chinese people. When the CCP started to defame the peaceful meditation practice of Falun Gong decades later in 1999, with the help of modern technology, it was capable of spreading hatred throughout China in minutes or seconds through its news media such as television.
One example was the staged self-immolation incident at Tiananmen Square in 2001, in which the stated-owned China Central TV station filmed a well-plotted drama to slander Falun Gong and played it non-stop on Chinese New Year's Eve when families gathered to celebrate the New Year.
One of the actresses, Liu Chunling, died at the scene while her daughter Liu Siying also died “while being treated in the hospital.” In the eyes of the CCP, their lives were worthless since the regime only cares about forcing communist doctrine on its people and wiping out traditional values, such as those Falun Gong teaches.
After Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published in 2004, people in China and the entire world learned the true nature of the CCP. Fearful of being exposed, the regime has not yet dared to challenge the book. But from reading it, I finally realized how CCP propaganda turns white into black. I was fooled by the CCP for over 30 years.
But not everyone has had a chance to read this book. Many Chinese are still deceived by the CCP’s lies, from The White Haired Girl that demonized landlords to the staged self-immolation incident that sought to defame Falun Gong. The stories have changed, but the theme remains the same—stir up hatred to eliminate certain groups.
I hope more people will read books like Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and figure out what is really going on. Over the past 24 years, Falun Gong practitioners have risked their lives to tell people the facts about Falun Gong and how the CCP has lied. It will be tragic if people continue to ignore the truth and blindly follow the CCP.
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