Zhou Enlai, born on this day in 1898, was a communist revolutionary, statesman, and military officer who served as the 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
Zhou was educated in a missionary college in Tianjin before studying at a Japanese university. In Tianjin, he met his future wife, Deng Yingchao while participating in a radical political group known as the "Awakening Society". In 1920, Zhou moved to France, where he helped form the overseas branch of the Communist Party of China. He also lived in Britain and Germany before returning to China in 1924.
While working in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guangdong-Guangxi, and served as the CPC representative with the rank of major-general.
After the Chinese Civil War broke out in 1927, Zhou served in the communist forces, helping establish and oversee a network of underground cells of communist resistance. Zhou played a leading role in the Long March of 1934-35, an arduous military retreat of communist forces over 8,000 miles.
Following the Zunyi Conference in 1935, Mao Zedong became Zhou's assistant. After the conclusion of the Long March, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai's leading position in the CPC, while Zhou took a secondary position as vice-chairman. Both would hold their leadership positions until their deaths in 1976.
Zhou was a prominent participant in the 1955 Asian–African Conference, held in Indonesia. The conference produced a declaration in strongly in favor of peace, the abolition of nuclear arms, general arms reduction, and the principle of universal representation at the United Nations. Zhou was critical of American imperial aggression and stated "the population of Asia will never forget that the first atom bomb was exploded on Asian soil."
Zhou passed away from bladder cancer on January 8th, 1976, just nine months before Mao Zedong's death in September that year.
"Today the first unification of the Chinese people has emerged. The people themselves have become the masters of Chinese soil, and the rule of the reactionaries in China has been irrevocably overthrown."
Zhou Enlai, from "Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression" (October 1950)
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Just a bit of a small rant, but with the whole “everyone is twelve now”, I feel like I’m twelve too sometimes out of necessity.
“I don’t want war, people get hurt and I don’t like it when people get hurt.”
“Racism is mean and that’s bad, aren’t we all tired of being bad?”
“If we can use more eco-friendly ways of keeping people safe and healthy, of course we should do so! I like animals and plants and nice days outside. We shouldn’t pollute them away!”
See? I feel like a 12 year old!
Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him.
Lenin walks around the world. Black, brown, and white receive him. Language is no barrier, the strangest tongues believe him.
Lenin walks around the world. The sun sets like a scar. Between the darkness and the dawn there rises a red star.
Lenin walk walks around the world. His balls swing side-to-side. A shlong so long it plows the earth, and is roughly breadloaf wide.
12 was when I stsrted being a Little Shit give or take. Kids are kind of evil between ages 12 and 15. Age 12 me was really into George Carlin but not smart enough to get most of it on an appropriate level beyond shock value, I knew other stuff was there but was still 12 so I thought I could reach it via shock value, south park which was exaxtly on my level as an early 2000s preteen and has stayed there etc making that age being the start of around 4 years of being a shitty little edgelord, its called puberty and it being the environment at the time, but even at society's best, I think we are all at our worst around that age and always will be. Age 9 me was all over those ideas, 10-12 is where it got sucked away for a while so I could be a teenager for a bit.