Many people may not have heard of the name Yu Luoke, who was the focus of the sixties and seventies of the last century, a deep thinker, and a brave writer. But his life was only a short 28 years, and the cause of his death is still a mystery to this day.
Yu Luoke was born in 1942, his parents were intellectuals, and the family also ran some businesses, allowing him to enjoy better material conditions. But this affluent life came to an abrupt end when he was 10 years old, when an anti-rightist movement was launched in the country, and his father was also classified as a rightist, and suffered a severe blow, after which their assets were confiscated and the family's conditions plummeted. Since then, Yu Luoke's life has begun to turn around, and he is no longer the noble son that everyone envies, but the son of a rightist family that everyone shouts at.
Although his classmates and teachers rejected him very much, Yu Luoke didn't care, he devoted himself to his studies and achieved excellent results. At that time, he naively thought that as long as he worked hard enough, he could change his family and his current situation, but after being rejected by the university one after another, he realized that he didn't work hard enough, and his bad background was his original sin, and even if he had excellent grades, he was not admitted to the university.
In desperation, Yu Luoke could only go to the countryside to become an educated youth, and it was at that time that he began to get into writing, using words to express his inner unwillingness and melancholy. During that time, he completed more than a dozen works, but most of the submissions were rejected and only a few were published, due to his origins.
When he returned to Beijing in 1964 and became a worker, he thought that as long as he performed well, the country would still give him a chance. As everyone knows, his background is like a brand, so that he is always in the whirlpool of criticism, even if he works hard and is talented, he still can't avoid the slander and abuse of others, often needs to attend some criticism meetings, and from time to time he will be beaten. But no one will stand up for him, just because his identity is sensitive, and those who are close to him will be implicated.
On such days, Yu Luoke was tortured physically and mentally, and his heart was full of strong dissatisfaction and resistance to such treatment. For this reason, he wrote an article called "The Theory of Origin", the main content of which is to criticize the "Theory of Origin", which he expressed a strong refutation, believing that a person should not be judged by his birth, and at the same time put forward the hope that some people can look at the problem realistically and cannot generalize from the whole, so as to persecute those who are extremely loyal to the party and the state.
In the environment at that time, many people had the same experience, so this article caused a great sensation as soon as it was published, and many people began to speak for Yu Luoke, hoping that the central government could open up to him. But he didn't want Qi Benyu not to buy it, and he also slandered Yu Luoke's fallacies to confuse the public, which made him suffer more serious criticism.
One day in 1968, Yu Luoke was arrested on his way home, and he was imprisoned for two years without even being charged, during which he defended himself and wrote a letter to the central government to appeal, but all of them were in vain. Until one day in 1970, Yu Luoke was suddenly taken to the Beijing Workers' Sports Center, where he was wearing shackles and handcuffs, and he was covered in dirt, which shows how much torture he suffered. What is shocking is that he was sentenced to death on the spot, and immediately executed, and a living life fell.
Later, some student organizations were wronged by Roque, but at that time, the counter-revolutionary group was in power, and those opposing voices were quickly suppressed. It wasn't until after the turmoil was over that Yu Luoke's parents, with the help of the media, won a chance for a retrial, and finally the court ruled that Yu Luoke was not guilty and his reputation was restored.
Yu Luoke was discriminated against because of his background, but he did not give up his life, but actively explored Marxism, hoping to integrate into society through writing, so as to get the respect that others deserved. But he underestimated the impact of the political turmoil, so that he didn't even have a chance to argue, and it is really regrettable that he lost his life just because of an article.