Chairman Mao’s Elegy in Memory of
Comrade Peng Xuefeng1
(February 7, 1945)
(Liberation Daily) Chairman Mao wrote his elegiac words mourning Comrade Peng Xuefeng:
Comrade Xuefeng sacrificed his life in the struggle against the enemy. The entire
nation and the whole Party are grieved by this loss. In order to compensate for
this loss, we should emulate Comrade Xuefeng’s brave spirit, work harder to
expand the liberated areas, enlarge the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth
Army, promote a coalition government and a unified supreme command, quickly
wipe out the Japanese invaders with effective and coordinated blows, and let an
independent and democratic new China emerge as quickly as possible.
Notes
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong ji, Vol. 9, p. 177, where it is reproduced from the February 8,
1945, issue of Jiefang ribao.
1. Peng Xuefeng (1907–1944), a general in the New Fourth Army, died in the campaign against Operation
Ichigo in Henan in November 1944.