Central Committee’s Comment Transmitting the Central-South Bureau’s Second Directive on Suppressing Counterrevolutionaries
(December 30, 1950)

To the East China Bureau, Southwest Bureau, Northwest Bureau, North China Bureau, Northeast Bureau, and forward to their subordinate sub-bureaus and provincial, municipal, and district Party committees:

We consider the Central-South Bureau’s second directive on suppressing counterrevolutionaries, dated December 26, to be entirely correct, and request that you study it. This concerns the complete set of tactics for suppressing counterrevolutionaries. If...