In the 20 th century, two major socialist countries in the world experienced "political disasters" that shocked the whole world, one was the "Great Purge" campaign of the Soviet Union in the 30s, and the other was the 10-year special period in China from the mid-60s to the mid-70s. In both disasters, Li Lisan was both a victim and a witness.
In September 1930, Li Lisan was dismissed from all posts as head of the CPC Central Committee for committing the mistake of "leftist" adventurism, and at the end of the same year, in accordance with the requirements of the Comintern, he went to Moscow alone to check and explain his mistakes.
While working in Moscow, Li Lisan met his confidante - Li Sha, although the age difference between the two is large, and Li Lisan's identity is still relatively special, but this young Soviet girl did not care, and resolutely chose to come together with him.
However, not long after the two got married, the Soviet Union's "Great Purge" campaign spread to their happy little family.
One day in late February 1938, several armed Soviet officers and soldiers suddenly broke into Li Lisan's home and arrested him without saying a word. The day after Li Lisan's arrest, Li Sha was expelled from the Comintern's cadre dormitory, and the League organization of her unit began to force her to choose between her membership and her husband.
For an aspiring young man who believes in communism, the importance of membership is self-evident, but it is equally important to uphold the truth.
So, when faced with the pressure of the unit and the regimental organization, Li Sha thought for a moment and said: My husband is not a counter-revolutionary, I know him very well, and I believe that his problem will be clarified one day...... After speaking, Li Sha took out her membership card from her pocket, gently placed it on the table, and then turned to leave.
However, it was not until the end of 1939 that Li Lisan was released from prison. In March of the following year, the Comintern formally concluded that the question of Li Li-san in the Soviet Union had been clarified, and the accusations against him were unfounded.
For this short sentence, Li Lisan and his wife have been waiting for nearly 2 years. But no matter what, Li Lisan was finally acquitted.
The first thing Li Lisan did after he was released from prison was to ask the Comintern to return to China as soon as possible and participate in the War of Resistance. However, due to various reasons, this wish of his was never realized.
In 1945, the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Yan'an, and Li Lisan, although he was in the Soviet Union at this time, was still elected as a member of the Central Committee. So much so that when he learned the news, he was very excited, which showed that the party organization had not forgotten him.
Yes, the party has not forgotten him, and the motherland and the people have not forgotten him, and during the election of members of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chairman Mao made a speech affirming Li Lisan's contribution to the Chinese revolution, and it is precisely because of this that he was successfully elected as a member of the Central Committee.
Of course, the thing that was even happier than being elected a member of the Central Committee was that the Comintern had finally allowed him to return to China!
In January 1946, Li Lisan left the Soviet Union, where he had worked and lived for 15 years, and embarked on the road back to China.
Soon after, his wife, Li Sha, also came to China from the Soviet Union, and was later placed as a teacher at the Harbin Russian Language College.
After the breakdown of Sino-Soviet relations, many people had urged Li Lisan to divorce Li Sha, but Li Lisan did not do so, the couple were friends in distress and had a heart-to-heart relationship with each other, how could he abandon her at this time?
And Li Sha, who has been living in China for more than ten years, is reluctant to leave China, and is even more reluctant to leave her husband and return to the Soviet Union, so she made a major decision - to give up her Soviet nationality and apply for Chinese citizenship. In July 1964, Li Sha officially became a legal citizen of the People's Republic of China.
During the War of Liberation, he successively served as a member of the Northeast Bureau, the head of the Enemy Industry Department, the head of the Urban Industry Department, and the vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
During this period, he deeply regretted that he had not directly participated in the revolutionary struggle in China for many years, so after taking up his post, he redoubled his hard work and made important contributions to opening up and stabilizing the base areas in Northeast China and supporting the national liberation war.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the leadership of the party, he participated in a series of internal and foreign affairs of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and successively served as a member of the Central People's Government, minister of labor, deputy director of the Central Ministry of Industry and Transportation, and secretary of the Secretariat of the North China Bureau.
However, just when he was working hard for the construction and development of New China wholeheartedly, a special period began.
Since Li Lisan held an important position in the party Central Committee in his early years, he was in control of the situation of many veteran cadres, and he was a typical "living file." As a result, the "rebels" found him, hoping to dig up some "criminal evidence" about the old cadres from his mouth.
Although Li Lisan had a long conversation with them, he always adhered to the principle of "telling only the truth and not telling lies," so the "rebels" did not get particularly favorable "evidence" from him.
There is no doubt that Li Lisan's "non-cooperation" will certainly make him a key target for the "rebels."
Soon, big-character posters with the words "Li Li's three miles to foreign countries" were plastered all over the offices and streets, and he was ordered to confess his "crimes" as soon as possible.
Regarding this series of trumped-up charges, Li Lisan even refuted them, saying: I, Li Lisan, have made serious mistakes, and I can review them at any time, and I am willing to correct them, but I have no foreign countries.
In fact, although Li Lisan was still wearing the hat of the "Lisan line" at that time, anyone knows that this was a matter of several decades ago, not to mention that this case has been repeatedly liquidated and reviewed, and it is obviously inappropriate to take it out and say it now.
In addition, although Li Lisan was the secretary of the North China Bureau at that time, he had already stepped aside. And since he is not the main "person in power", it is impossible for him to carry out the so-called "bourgeois reactionary line".
But the problem is that the "rebels" did not get the "evidence" they needed from him, so he will definitely be one of the targets of attack, after all, it was a crazy time.
Late one night in May 1967, Li Lisan's home was raided by the "rebels", and all the belongings in his home were turned upside down, almost exactly like the scene in Moscow. In just one month, Li Lisan was subjected to a series of unfair treatments.
At noon on June 22, Li Lisanqiang supported his sick body and wrote a "unique letter" to Chairman Mao, in which he said:
“…… The only thing is that my whole family and I have never committed any crimes against foreign countries. This is the only point that the central authorities are requested to earnestly investigate and examine and draw a fact-seeking conclusion. ”
Due to unbearable torture, Li Lisan swallowed sleeping pills and passed away.
On the day of Li Lisan's death, his wife Li Sha was imprisoned in Qincheng Prison, which was 8 years, but what she didn't know was that just a few hours before she was arrested, her husband Li Lisan committed suicide by taking medicine.
After Li Sha was released from prison in late May 1975, she was still concerned about the condition of her husband Li Lisan, she did not know that her husband was dead at the moment, and she was still looking forward to reuniting with her husband as soon as possible.
At the end of 1978, Li Sha returned to Beijing after a three-and-a-half-year "exile", and only then did she learn that her husband had died. But at this moment, she has long been without tears, perhaps she has expected all this. Her biggest wish at the moment is that her husband can be rehabilitated as soon as possible and his reputation restored.
Finally, with organizational attention, on March 20, 1980, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a solemn memorial service for Comrade Li Lisan at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Beijing, affirming that he was "an outstanding member of our party, a proletarian revolutionary, and one of the outstanding leaders of the Chinese workers' movement" and his contributions to the Chinese revolution.
Speaking from the bottom of his heart, Li Lisan's life was indeed a revolutionary life, and although he made mistakes, he never concealed his mistakes, but had the courage to bear them, face up to his mistakes, and worked hard to correct them.
In addition, although Li Lisan has held many important positions after returning to China, his career has not been smooth, and he has been repeatedly criticized during this period.
For example, at the end of 1951, he was criticized by Chen Boda at the first enlarged meeting of the party group of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions for the so-called "wrong line" and left the leadership position of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions; In 1954, Li Lisan was dismissed from his post as Minister of Labor......
However, despite this, he has been working diligently, never caring about the level of his position or the size of his work, as long as he can contribute to the construction of New China, no matter what work he does, he will never tire of it.
Such an outstanding leading cadre, who takes into account the overall situation and never cares about personal gains and losses, is undoubtedly worthy of study and admiration by each and every one of us.