(Minghui.org) My 88-year-old mother-in-law loves listening to the audio CD of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Whenever I am concerned about leaving her at home alone, she says with smile, “Don't worry. I can listen to the Nine Commentaries during the day.”
She has personally experienced many of the things mentioned in the Nine Commentaries, and told us, “There is no exaggeration in this. It's all true.”
My mother-in-law has experienced a lot of hardship in her life. She had eight children, but one of them died of starvation as did so many other in those years.
Poverty, hunger and exhaustion have plagued her through the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) various political campaigns. She has witnessed innocent, hardworking people in her village being beaten to death on instructions from the local CCP Party secretary.
After hearing the section of the Nine Commentaries about the CCP's land reform, my mother-in-law recounted her experience at that time. She was living in a small village in Liaoning Province with her mother and her younger sister. They made a living through sewing. One time her mother did some sewing for the chairman of the Farmers Alliance, but made him angry when she asked to be paid.
The chairman of the Farmers Alliance took her mother away and confiscated her blankets, claiming that they were made with thread from her capitalist business. They held “struggle” sessions against her (a common method used by the communist party to publicly berate and humiliate people) and beat her.
Four other elderly people were arrested around the same time. All of them were poor, honest, hardworking villagers. An old couple were arrested for building a mud-brick and straw house; a woman was arrested for leasing her old house; and an elderly man, who made his living by writing housing contracts was also arrested.
CCP officials repeatedly beat the five of them, targeting the injured parts of their bodies. Four of them passed away in extreme agony. My mother-in-law's mother was the only one who survived, and only barely. The whole process was in accordance with a CCP slogan: “No beating, no money.” The CCP's doctrine taught that “beatings would make the rich submit their money.”
Even though my mother-in-law's mother survived, she was seriously injured and all her belongings were confiscated. Even the grass mat they used as bedding on her brick bed was confiscated. They had to put grass on the bed and huddle together to survive the cold winter nights. My mother-in-law and her little sister had to beg for food. Filled with fear and shame, they didn't dare lift their heads or speak to anyone. If they could get a little food, they would rush back home to give it to their injured mother.
According to my mother-in-law, Chairman Mao's policies allowed lazy people to rob hardworking people and beat them.
My mother-in-law said, “During the period of the 'Great Leap Forward,' people were starving. Party officials held meetings to tell us to conserve resources. But people were starving and had to eat tree leaves and grass roots, some of which turned out to be poisonous. Many children and the elderly died as a result. Many had swollen faces from the poison in their system. I fainted several times because of hunger. No one was allowed to grow anything themselves. If you did, you would be labeled a capitalist and paraded through the streets. We had to submit all our metal cookware to make steel. But I didn't see any steel.”
Listening to the section of the Nine Commentaries about the Great Cultural Revolution triggered my mother-in-law's memories of this disastrous political movement. A man in her village with the surname Sun had served in the Eighth Route Army and knew a few Japanese words. He was labeled a Japanese spy and was hung up in his backyard and badly beaten. His wife and children cried their hearts out seeing how badly he was beaten.
They went to the front yard but could still hear his screams. He was beaten to death. His body was then taken under a small bridge. Standing on the bridge, they held a “struggle” session above his body. His wife cried beside him. But whenever the people standing on bridge shouted 'Long live Chairman Mao,' she was forced to stand up and shout the same thing.”
My mother-in-law said, “The Party secretary who led the session was eventually sentenced to three and a half years in prison. His family was torn apart and he eventually committed suicide. It is just like people say, 'good will be rewarded and evil will be punished.'”
Whenever I tell my friends and relatives about quitting the CCP, my mother-in-law helps me by saying things like, “The CCP is so wicked. It struggles against this group today and that group tomorrow. It frames people and kills them. I have witnessed all of this. Never stand on the side of the CCP. Never!”
They all agreed with her. Her grandson, who just graduated from college, said, “Don't worry, grandma! I will never to be part of the CCP.” She nodded and smiled at him.
Despite the CCP's overwhelming slanderous propaganda campaign against Falun Gong, my mother-in-law always says, “Falun Dafa is great!”
She was blessed by Dafa. She once fell in the bathtub. The impact was so great that it made a hole in the tub, but she immediately said, “Falun Dafa is great! I'm fine.” The skin on her knee had little red marks, but nothing more than that.
