Chapter 4 Military Purgatory
The military class of the military university begins with the drill step. In the morning, he studied military drills, and in the afternoon, he studied political theory. Although when we were in high school, we learned some things about standing upright, taking a break, and turning left and right, but it is far from what is required in today's troops, which requires that every move and style be in place.
The team should stand as straight as a line, hold their chests high, raise their heads, tuck their abdomen, close their lips, and look at eye level, turn the team left and right to synchronize, walk in unison and swing their hands in unison, raise their legs and start walking, and their feet are parallel to the ground...... If you can't meet the requirements again, a few stupid people have to open a "small stove" for him.
At the end of the day, my back hurts and my feet are numb! "Miss" and "Young Master", they can't bear it, so they mumble strange things in private:
"What is this military-political university? There's no college flavor at all!" …… But the next day, everyone had to stick to the drill.
At this time, the school proposed: "Compare who can stand the test of revolution!" ". Each company immediately held a meeting to discuss and ask everyone to actively respond to the call of the school and participate in the "competition who can withstand the tempering of the revolution!" "The activity of the event.
In the political theory class, I first study "History of Social Development". Political Commissar Du Jing gave us a lecture:
"Students, have you studied "History of Social Development" in the past?" Very few people raised their hands.
"Hey, it's the old society that hurt you! Some students may not even have heard of the name 'History of Social Development'. The commissar smiled and said:
"Today's first lesson will open the 'halo' for everyone, I hope you will remember carefully, listen carefully, organize discussions after class, and allow arguments."
At that time, there were no textbooks, no tables and stools, and each student was given a coarse paper notebook, a pen, with his buttocks as a "stool" and his thighs as a "desk".
Because Political Commissar Du has a very high theoretical level, his lectures are logical, clear, vivid, and thorough, everyone is refreshed by what they hear. In the evening, everyone discussed collectively, and those who understood and those who did not understand expressed their opinions, and actively expressed their own opinions.
There is a little ghost in the class named Deng Xiaolin, he is short, with a melon seed face, a small person with a big voice, and he speaks in a shrill voice.
He said: "Political Commissar Du said that man is changed from apes, I don't believe it, why can't apes become humans today?" ”
This cannon aroused everyone's strong interest, and everyone spoke one after another to argue, and later the debate was still full of emotion, but they always felt that the reasons were not sufficient, and no one could convince anyone, and they were unwilling to break up the meeting until the lights were blown out.
Seeing this situation, the theory instructor smiled and said, "Students, let's discuss it again tomorrow and dismiss the meeting!" So they patted the dust on their buttocks and went back to the dormitory.
This way of democratic discussion is unique and allows people to speak their minds freely, without paternalistic forced indoctrination, let alone mutual attacks and slanders, only mutual inspiration and guidance, and gradual acceptance. Political Commissar Du sometimes participated in group discussions, without any paternalistic style, but repeatedly guided everyone to correctly understand the theoretical viewpoint of social development history.
Due to the influence of traditional concepts, the understanding of the origin of human beings is relatively superficial, and they do not understand historical materialism and dialectical materialism, so they argue endlessly, until the school distributes a pamphlet of Engels's "The Role of Labor in the Process of Transition from Ape to Man", which resolves this controversy - labor can transform the world, and labor creates human beings.
In the theoretical course, I also studied more than 10 compulsory courses such as "Dialectical Materialism", "On the New Democratic Revolution", "On Alliance", and "Carry the Revolution to the End".
Through the systematic study of these theories and the criticism of old ideas and concepts, we have transformed the "old people" who came from the old society into the "new people" of the new society, and achieved the leap from "ape to man." Later, practice proved that the vast majority of us have been "transformed," and some of us have been completely reborn and become models of the times.
At the Military University, there is also a teaching group that "reads with our classmates" with us. They are a group of young intellectuals who have come from Luodong and other places, some of whom have served as reactionary youth soldiers, and some of whom have come from the uprising; they are "old revolutionaries," their thinking is relatively active, and they have a heroic spirit of being vigorous and vigorous.
The daily routine of the military academy is full of arrangements, getting up at five o'clock until the lights go out at twenty-one and a half, and the study and life of the day is intense and lively.
When I first arrived, I felt quite uncomfortable in life, everything was a group activity, and it was not "free". The old society has developed the habit of being free and slow, and it can't turn a corner.
Now there are group activities all day long, there is no room for "freedom", no one can stand the discipline constraints, and there are complaints in private. My little fellow countryman, Deng Xiaolin, is a little angry and often expresses his opinions in private.
I sometimes wonder, why is the "military university" like this? It is completely different from the life we expected from the military university, and many people are disappointed and even want to quit the so-called military university.
Once the instructor talked to him, and at first Xiao Deng was still that bearish spirit, rightly confident, emphasizing objective reasons, and the "ape nature" has not changed. The instructor smiled and stared playfully, and guided him step by step. After a long time, as soon as Xiao Deng saw the instructor's Buddha-like smiling face, his bones were also crispy.
It's really strange, Xiao Deng's personality has changed one hundred and eighty degrees, he no longer fires guns indiscriminately, his personality is much more "docile", he studies more seriously, he always remembers it in his notebook every time, and he writes the words at a glance, and he suffers the most during practice. In the march to the Great Southwest Middle School, he awarded many awards, and soon after arriving in Spring City, he joined the advanced organization. This shows that people can be transformed, and military schools are a melting pot!
In August, the study and training are more intense, and sometimes there are emergency gatherings at night, and the darker the day and the heavier the rain, the more frequent the gatherings. The men are okay, as soon as the clothes and pants are worn, the hands and feet are fast, and the backpack is carried to the playground, but those girls are bad, they usually develop the habit of not being in a hurry or slow, and looking in the mirror before going out. We often let the boys disband, and the punishment girls are standing on the black gooing playground.
Our captain is an old Red Army, a native of Huyang, who has experienced a hundred battles, don't look at him who is not very rough, but he can govern the army strictly. He was very annoyed when he saw that the girls couldn't get to the playground on time as required, and he said solemnly: "If you drag like this, if the enemy comes, won't you be 'made dumplings'!" There is no talk of destroying the enemy, let alone defeating the reactionaries......" is another harsh criticism.