Because of Hu's popularity in Chinese cultural circles, the letters that were revealed revived the debate about Soviet attitudes.

The polemics in the Chinese literary world are all one after another.

Xu Zhimo initiated a big discussion on "uniting Russia and hating Russia" in the "Morning Post", which ended with the burning of the "Morning Post" newspaper building.

Lin Zixuan wrote about what he saw in the Soviet Union "Moscow does not believe in tears", and the debate passed after two months.

There is a time-sensitive problem, and even the most famous scholar cannot keep a topic going.

Basically, it's the beginning, the development, the climax and the end.

After all, there are many other hot topics of public opinion in Chinese society, and readers will also experience reading fatigue.

It's like the media of later generations can't make a person make headlines every day, but they always have to constantly change new tricks to give the audience a sense of freshness.

If Hu Shi also criticized the Soviet Union, it would not have much impact, because everyone should have said everything, and there is no need to repeat it.

But this time, Hu Shi actually praised the Soviet Union, believing that the Soviet revolution was a great social experiment, and also issued "How can we, a nation drunk and dreaming of death, deserve to criticize Soviet Russia!" Such an emotion.

This makes people very curious.

Hu Shi, like Xu Zhimo and Lin Zixuan, both studied in the United States and advocated liberalism.

It stands to reason that these three people have the same values and should have the same views on the Soviet Union, but I didn't expect Hu Shi and the other two to come to completely different conclusions.

Which of the three of them is the truth? What did the real USSR look like?

This is where the reader is interested.

Hu Shi's letter became a weapon for many people to attack Lin Zixuan.

They attacked Lin Zixuan for being biased against the Soviet Union, saying only the bad side of the Soviet Union without mentioning the achievements of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union overthrew imperialism, and this alone was stronger than China.

Some people also believe that Lin Zixuan is worried that China will once embark on the path of the Soviet Union. He will become the target of defeat, which is why he maliciously distorts the facts. Discrediting the USSR.

They denounced what a capitalist had to criticize the Soviet Union.

Lin Zixuan read Hu Shi's letter, and he felt that Hu Shi should have been fooled by the Soviets.

What to see in three days in Moscow, see the places where Hu picked up, the Museum of the Revolution and the prison, which the Soviet authorities arranged for foreigners to visit the Soviet Union.

The most strange thing is that Hu Shi actually thinks that Soviet education is good by looking at Soviet education materials.

He did not go to the school on field trips, nor did he come into contact with people in the Soviet educational circles, so he was so arbitrary that he did not look like a serious scholar at all. More like in Moscow in a state of hyperactivity.

It's not the first time Hu Shi has done this, his life can be said to be a process of being constantly slapped in the face.

In 1922, Hu Shi enthusiastically put forward the "doctrine of good government".

The resulting "good guy government" became a tool of the warlords, and it came to an end after only 73 days of existence.

He also went to the palace to meet the last emperor Fu Yi, and was very sympathetic to Fu Yi's plight, so he wrote an article for Fu Yi's grievances.

Later, Fu Yi defected to the Japanese and established the puppet state of Manchukuo.

In 1922, in the confrontation between Sun Zhongshan and Chen Jiongming, Hu Shi criticized Sun Zhongshan. The rebellion of Chen Jiongming was revolutionary.

This incident made Sun Zhongshan angry.

Two years later, when compiling Sun Zhongshan's article, the editor of Guangzhou's "National Daily" explained in the words of Hu Shi, that Sun Zhongshan personally approved the article "for the Central Executive Committee to expel this reporter as part of the reform of this newspaper."

Thus. Sun Zhongshan's resentment against Hu Shi.

Hu Shi also supported Duan Qirui's aftermath meeting, but Duan Qirui stepped down in embarrassment because of the "March 18" tragedy.

He now began to praise the Soviet Union, and by 1948. He said that the Soviet Union had become a terrible force of aggression.

Lin Zixuan recalled that in terms of standing in line. Hu Shi has often been on the side of villains in his life, if it weren't for his great fame. I'm afraid I've been killed a long time ago.

This can also be taken as a compliment, indicating that Hu Shi has been insisting on what he thinks is right.

A few months later, when Hu arrived in the United States, he gradually came to his senses.

He also admired the American social system: "There will be no social revolution in the United States, because the United States is in the midst of social revolution every day. This kind of revolution is gradual, and every day there is progress, so every day is a revolution. ”

He was sober, but his book "Sending Books in the Ou You Dao" caused a great controversy in China's intellectual circles.

Xu Zhimo advised Hu Shi in the "Morning Post", and many of Hu Shi's friends also felt that Hu Shi's political tendencies had changed too abruptly and were difficult to understand.

Lin Zixuan thought that Hu Shi was deceived by the Soviet Union, and hoped that Hu Shi could really understand before making a judgment.

How to view the Soviet Union was a topic of eternal debate among Chinese intellectuals in this era.

By 1948, a similar controversy had erupted.

It shows that Chinese intellectuals are worried about the fate of the country, which is related to China's future.

Interestingly, on his way back from the United States the following year, Hu Shi passed through Japan and visited Dr. Tokuzo Fukuda, a famous Japanese Marxist economist.

This man had just returned from Europe, and his ideas had changed.

When Hu Shi asked him why he didn't go to the United States, Fukuda said: "I don't dare to go to the United States, because I am afraid that when I go to the United States, my doctrine will be completely overthrown." ”

Lin Zixuan was attacked and was not in a good mood, so he decided to continue the cause of "discrediting" the Soviet Union.

Since you think I have smeared the Soviet Union, then I will seriously discredit it once.

He originally wanted to put the writing of "1984" on hold, but he was not in a hurry anyway, and it was not too late to talk about it when he had leisure.

But who stimulated him, the time to copy a novel can still be squeezed out, and it is less than 300,000 words.

"1984" is a story that takes place in a futuristic world, where in 1984 the world was divided between three superpowers.

They are the oceanic countries, the Eurasian countries, and the East Asian countries, and the wars between the three countries are continuous, and the internal social structure of the countries has been completely broken, and all of them have a high degree of centralized rule.

Extreme means such as changing history, changing language, and breaking families are used to suppress people's thoughts and instincts.

Control people's behavior with "electric curtains" with surveillance and listening functions, and maintain the functioning of society with personality cults of leaders and hatred of enemies at home and abroad.

Because Orwell was British, he set the story in a country similar to Britain, that is, Oceania.

The names of the people in the book are also British, and the only party in Oceania is called English Socialism.

It is said that this is an allusion to the Fabian Society in Britain, the socialist group in which George Bernard Shaw participated, and the Fabian Society was founded in 1884, and 1984 was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Fabian Society.

So, the whole story looks like a story of a Soviet template that takes place in the UK.

Lin Zixuan didn't plan to copy it, since it was to smear the Soviet Union, let's do it thoroughly.

He changed the names of the people and parties in the story to the Soviet Russian model, making the whole story look like it took place in the Soviet Union.

He actually wanted to change the title of the book to "1991," the year the Soviet Union collapsed.

But it would be too fantasy to really do this, and it would make people feel that the book has a curse function, and it is better to keep a low profile. (To be continued.) )