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Chapter 18. History moves (1)

Chapter 18. History moves (1)

Chang Junshan (常俊山) is 28 years old and was born in Jincheng City, Shanxi Province.

As a child, his family was able to live in a fairly decent environment because his father was a doctor, but before he was less than 10 years old, everything changed.

The red wind of the Cultural Revolution was blowing.

When Chang Jun-shan was 5 years old, his father, who was a doctor, was beaten by the Red Guards and became paralyzed, and suddenly the livelihood of the family was entrusted to his mother.

Seeing his father, who could not lift his finger after going to elementary school, lying in bed, and his mother lamenting that ‘President Mao ruined our family,’ Chang Jun-san grew up in anger toward his family’s enemy, President Mao, even in his young heart.

How on earth did the great President Mao and his Red Guards have to make my father like that?

My father was just a man who devoted his whole life to treating the sick people by learning medicine diligently according to the teachings of the Party…

So suddenly he dropped out of middle school and did his last job to help the family, but when he became an adult, he chose the easiest and fastest way to get out of the house, like many other Chinese youngsters.

He enlisted in the People’s Liberation Army.

He was assigned to the 7th Armored Brigade of the 27th Army Group in Shenyang County (沈阳军区).

Although he had inherited the head of his doctor’s father and had not completed his formal education, Chang was brilliant, and he quickly learned how to operate armored equipment, and soon became the commander of the Type 59 Tank, the main tank of the People’s Liberation Army.

And, Chang Jun-san was currently facing the biggest and worst situation of his life.

– Sergeant Chang, Comrade!! What are you doing! Go ahead!

– ………..However….

– The mob in the square has already been wiped out! When our troops are deployed in the square, the turmoil of those mobs that have occupied Beijing for the past two months will come to an end! Sergeant Spear! Obey orders!

– ……………

Chang Jun-san listened to the shouts of his superiors from the radio, and through the commander’s sight, looked at them with a mournful look at the figure standing in front of the column of the Type 59 tanks he was riding in.

Last night was a nightmare.

However, he was only following orders, and he comforted himself that this was ultimately about suppressing the dangerous reactionary mob that disturbed the order of his homeland China.

Fortunately, yesterday, the mob also fought vigorously against them, so they could justify seeing blood on their inner conscience.

But now…..

– Sergeant Chang, comrade! If you hesitate now, the reactionary, anti-party elements will win! Remember what you learned in ideological education class! They are the rioters who fall into the far-left fallacy that blocks China’s reform and opening up! If you leave that reaction alone now, the disorder and riots during the cultural revolution will happen again!

– ……….However…………!!

– Remember the father of your deceased comrade! To whom did he fit him? Now, those in the square are the ones who insist on going back to the days of former President Mao! Is it okay for what happened to my comrade’s father to happen again? Don’t forget what Comrade Deng Xiaoping said! Already all party cadres and standing members have agreed that blood must be seen!

– ……………!!!

father.

At the shouting from the walkie-talkie, Chang Junshan finally made a decision.

He quickly grabbed the stick with a trembling hand and put it into forward gear.

As the tank slowly moved forward, he closed his eyes and ignored what he was doing.

Yes, I have already given that man several chances to escape, but it is the author’s fault for not getting out of the way.

Kuroo…

The Type 59 tank roared and slowly ran over the obstacles blocking it.

And in front of the advancing tank, a man in a white shirt and black pants, with a robe and a black envelope in his hand, stood in front of him with his bare body.

He didn’t budge until the last moment when the chariot’s caterpillars hit him.

With the full support of General Secretary Jeong Hwan, the media revolution in North Korea accelerated day by day.

Led by the National Cabal Committee, at least a few color TVs were installed in each local company, hospital, and enterprise, and almost all peoples of the republic can now hear about the big things happening across the country right before their eyes.

Among them, there were some notable changes, one of which was a change in the news program.

– Hello, fellow people of the Republic. From now on, I’m going to share with you the latest news from across the Republic today.

Except for the fact that it still airs in the morning, afternoon and evening, the news program has been redesigned with a nearly 180 degree turn.

The announcer Ri Chun-hi, who wore a pink hanbok every day at the direct order of the general secretary and loudly preached the words of the leader, disappeared, and a young announcer in a neat Western-style female suit speaking a mixture of Pyongyang and Seoul dialects took its place.

Rumors circulated that Li Chun-hi, who had maintained his position with the special favor of former general Kim Jong-il, changed his job to a voice actor, but most of the people of the Republic did not miss her very much.

– What you are seeing now is the proudly state-of-the-art pursuit aircraft of the People’s Army of the Republic of Korea, the MiG 29. Announcer Ryu Chul-min, the top speed reaches a whopping Mach 2.5, right?

– That’s right. It is truly a proud achievement of the Party that this chaser, which can be equipped with 4,000 kg of armament, including machine guns and medium and long-range missiles, will protect the skies of the Republic from today onwards. However, it remains to be seen that these pursuers were not made in our Republic, but were purchased in foreign currency from our friendly Soviet Union. Isn’t it? Announcer Shim Jeong-hee?

What surprised the people even more than Li Chun-hi’s resignation was that this newly changed news was able to deliver ‘bad news’.

In the past, the Chosun Central Broadcasting System, which did not even talk about bad news in the Republic, unless the size of the news was so huge that it was impossible to hide it, this was truly a shock to the heavens and earth.

– Hmm, it would have cost a lot of foreign currency to buy such a chaser, don’t you wonder where all that foreign currency came from, announcer Ryu Chul-min?

– According to the Party’s Propaganda and Agitation Department, this was due to the outcome of the ‘Corruption Investigation Battle’ led by Comrade General Secretary since last year. It is said that as a result of reducing the wasted portion of the party’s finances and eradicating “some” corrupt party members who were self-interested by stealing the party’s finances, they were able to purchase more chasers than expected.

– Oh, that’s right. It can’t really be a slope. It would be good for all Party members and labor comrades who are watching this broadcast to keep their eyes open so that they do not take a screw out of their workplace. Otherwise, you will become an enemy of the General Secretary, the Party, and even the Republic. Isn’t it?

Those who have a keen eye and have been exposed to various media for a long time could notice that the reports of new broadcasters, including Chosun Central Broadcasting, were given a little autonomy and variety, but the object of criticism and tone had practically not changed.

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No, the object of criticism has changed.

In the past, the main critics were external forces or their minions such as ‘the US imperialists’ or ‘reaction stained with capitalist bourgeois fluff’, but now they are ‘corrupt party members’, ‘criminals who disrupt social ethos’, or ‘partisan divisions’ The difference was that he turned into an insider like a sectarian who promotes

In addition, cleverly, these news programs were placed before and after the popular soap opera schedule, making it impossible to ignore.

And it was the Workers’ Party of Korea, with General Secretary Jeong Hwan as its apex, who punished them and brought the order of the republic and the people’s prosperity to life.

– Today, the former leader of the Labor Party’s Room 39 was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau led by Comrade Kim Young-il and sent to the correctional center. With the grace of General Kim Jong-il, he was serving in Room 39 of the Party.

– In the course of the investigation, he found that an organization that mass-manufactures and sells bingdu (methamphetamine) or counterfeit US dollars to foreign currency exists in Room 39 of the Labor Party, and that he was loyal there for General Kim Jong-il. He claimed to be innocent by himself. But psychiatrist comrades diagnosed him with paranoia.

– Upon hearing this news, Comrade General Secretary ordered that he be imprisoned in a mental hospital, not a regular correctional center, ‘considering that he has committed a felony, but is very sick and has been loyal to the party for a long time.’ Hearing the generous treatment of the general secretary, common party comrades…

Of course, there were occasions when the punishment of a high-ranking party member or military officer was reported.

But strangely, they all had one thing in common that they were all powerful people in the past Kim Jong-Il and Kim Il-Sung eras, but most people who were far from power did not know that.

What they could see was that the news media, including news, were now more fun and free, and that even high-ranking party members and military officers were punished if they did something wrong.

For the majority of the people of the republic, that was more than enough.

– Now, the Republic will be able to live and breathe a little.

A few months after the establishment of the new Chosun Central Broadcasting System (KCTV), Pyongyang TV (PTV), and the Joseon Broadcasting Corporation (JBS), such a story spread among the people.

It is human nature to want to express one’s intentions, no matter how hard we try, it cannot be suppressed.

Starting with the library rearranging project, the people who seemed choked by the oppressive social atmosphere of the Kim Jong-il era looked back on their lives without saying a word, and were overjoyed that the republic had finally opened its doors.

– Oh, you look good, the executives who helped out, a few of them were taken away from our company and suffered a lot. In the meantime, during the days of General Kim Jong-il, I had nowhere to complain, so I was just suffering…

– Shh! Be quiet! No matter how much you talk about the Republic these days, don’t you know that if you mention the President’s family right away, you’ll be taken away and the scenery will be?

– Still, the days of general secretary have come and the republic has improved a lot. Now it would be nice if only the problem of living and eating would get better… but rations aren’t going up these days…

– Oh, but didn’t it just go down day by day when you were a former general? It’s better these days though. Is not it?

Due to the successive detections of corruption by key executives of the Kim Jong-il era, a negative impression was gradually overlaid on Kim Jong-il.

Although Kim Jong-il was still a great general in the official media, including the Chosun Central Broadcasting System, on the tongue of the people who were talking while avoiding the eyes of the authorities, Kim Jong-il said, ‘The president is the wrong son, and he destroyed the hotel and brought bad luck to the republic.’ turned up to

And after such gossip, it was always evaluated that ‘the republic is fortunate to have the general secretary, not General Kim Jong-il,’.

Also, the authorities did not seem to be actively cracking down on such evaluations.

One day in June, as the leader of the republic gradually changed in the minds of the people of the republic, bad news was delivered to the secretary’s office.

It was a dispatch from Tiananmen, Beijing .