ATTITUDE OF CHINESE TOWARD USSR/TOWARD CHINESE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES/TOWARD NATIONALISTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500400162-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 162
• Publication Date: February 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Attitude of Chinese toward USSR/Toward Chinese
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Attitude of Chinese Peasants toward Soviet Russians
(a) The Soviet Russians are intensely disliked by the Chinese peasants,
The children from Chinese farms adjoining my property frequently use
All place as a playground. Several times I have seen then when
Russians were passing shout: "Su Lien" (Soviet) spit and follow
up with a stream of obscenities. Obviously the uhj.]..dren take their
cue from their elders. I have heard the same sort of abusive comT-
men?tfrom peasants in the villages in my vicinity. To call a
Chinese peasant or workman a'"red" or to say he is doing his job
in the "red" way is an open insult and an invitation to u fight.
One nay call him a Communist without offense but not a "red"; the
latter term has come to mean'a Russian Communist and it is the
Russian angle which is resented.
(b) The old French arsenal grounds were a favorite picnic spot for my
young daughter and her friends. They found however that they
could no longer go there. They were not known personally to the
neighborhood Chinese, who took them to be Russians and gathered
and hurled insults and abuse 'at them: "Su Lien" plus obscenities
and " Iung Kuei" - Red Devils.,
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(c) The stmme feeling obtains among workman in the city of Tientsin),
but b?cause there is effective police control it is not expressed
20 openly.
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Attitude toward Chinese Communist Government
3. (a) During 1949-1950 the Communist authorities in Tientsin encouraged
adult education, and went so far an to require an employer to
provide education for any employee who demanded it. Workmen are
now refusing to attend educational classes. They explain that
they are not against education itself but that they refuse to
have someone dictate to theta what they must study. They are
particularly incensed at being required to sing "Soviet" songs.
If the authorities try to press them to attend classes they reply:
"We cannot fill our work norms if you make us attend classes."
The same thing happens in the villages. The Communists send
inspection teams to them to'check on what is going on. The teams
are treated with disrespect and met with passive resistance.
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(b) In the early days of the Communist regime, a village or an industrial
plant would be told to send so and so many men to march in a parade,
and! would comply. Now if the village is called on for say 200 men,
theiauthorities are lucky if a dozen turn up. If the authorities
try Ito force matters they are met with the same reply: "We cannot
fulfill our norms if we march in parades."
(c) On Communist holidays, 1 May and 1 Oct, there used to be prolific
displa s of flags in both the city and the suburban vi=l.ages.
Nowt 1957 there are very very few; perhaps 50 where there used to
be 5 , 000.
Even the students who were pretty solidly for the regime at first
are now becoming disillusioned and doubtful.
To sum up the position, the Chinese attitude is: "It was bad under
the Nationalists and we thoup;ht the Communists could not be worse..
We were wrong. Under the Nationalists we could at least live but
now even that is difficult."I There is widespread and bitter dis-
content but there is no movement progress to turn the discontent
into'~positive action. The Nationalists are not particularly liked,
although the criticism i.5 not directed at Chiang Kai-she k personally.
The Chinese are vaguely hoping for some new leader to appear, and
more usually for a new world war to break out. I an, sure that the
peasantry would rise up as a man and welcome any invader, except
the Russians, who would deliver them from the Communists
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