The 1950s Repression: A Contemporary Western Account.

This article presents an account of repression in China during 1950s. People are being arrested all over the country. Those people: Taoists, Buddhists, paid saboteurs and agents parachuted into China by the Americans. The press every day, as if obsessed by the subject, goes on repeating the same revelations, the same verdicts, the same executions, the same warnings. Three thousand leaders and members of this sect, engaged in sabotaging the directives of the Communist Party in the rural areas, are said to have been discovered in nine subdistricts. On August 16, 1955 , a counter-revolutionary organization called the Light of Peace has been discovered by the public security bureau of Chongqing. On August 18, the Urumqi Xinjiang ribao announces the arrest of several members of a counter-revolutionary organization called the Chinese Democratic Party. In his July 27 speech, Minister Luo Ruiqing stated that the establishment of secret reactionary societies represents an important means for the development of counter-revolutionary activities.