Telegram on the Tactics for Suppressing Counterrevolutionaries
(December 19, 1950)

Comrade Kecheng, with a copy to Comrade Zihui:

Your comprehensive report of December 7 has been received. It is very good, and your policy is correct. In suppressing counterrevolutionaries, please pay attention to striking steadily, accurately, and relentlessly, so that all sectors of society will have nothing to say.

Mao Zedong
December 19

Published based on the manuscript.
Excerpted in *Selected Works of Mao Zedong*, Volume V.

**Notes**
〔1〕 This telegram is abridged in this volume.
〔2〕 Kecheng, i.e., Huang Kecheng, then Secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee.
〔3〕 Zihui, i.e., Deng Zihui, then Third Secretary of the Central-South Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.