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The Anti-Bolshevik League incident, or AB League Incident (AB tuan shijian, AB 团事件), was a period of political purge in the territory of a Chinese Communist revolutionary bases in Jiangxi. Mao Zedong accused his political rivals of secret and traitorous membership in the incipient national government's domestic spy network. Mao's purge resulted in massacres at Futian (Fujian shijian 富田事件) and elsewhere, and in the torture of large numbers of Red Army officers and soldiers, generally prior to execution.

Independent Chinese historians suggest that the AB League Incident was the first of numerous mass murders under direct order of Mao Zedong.

Origin of the term

In December 1926, the Kuomintang (Guomindang, 国民党, or "Nationalists") in Jiangxi created a counter-intelligence organization, known as Anti-Bolshevik League, to deal with the emergent state of civil war. The league consisted of handful of people and was dissolved only after three months.

Revolutionary Terror

Gao Hua (高华), a history department professor at the Nanjing University, stated that the 1930 Anti-Bolshevik League incident was a huge wave of revolutionary terror engulfing the Jiangxi communist controlled area. Thousands of red army officials and soldiers and Baixing were first tortured and then massacred, all under Mao Zedong's direct order, and this historical fact was distorted for many years until 1980/1990.

According to Gao, beginning on 1927, Mao was the first communist leader to take up armed rebellion against the ruling Kuomintang regime, hence became the most famous leader of the military phase of Chinese communist revolution, resulting in the establishing of liberated area(解放區), enabled Mao to begin his grand experiment of using revolution to transform China.

Leninist methods

According to Gao Hua(高华), in order to establish Lenin-like authority, Mao had decided to use violence and bloodshed to exterminate other Red Army section, namely Li Wenling(李文林), by accusing Li Wenling of Counter revolutionary and belonging to the non-existent Anti-Bolshevik League, using slogans such as Using red to cleanse the country, Red terror, and to purge spies under the red flag.

Mao Zedong wrote: "Red terror ought to be our reply to these counter-revolutionaries. We must, especially in the war zones and in the border areas, deal immediately, swiftly with every kind of counter-revolutionary activity."

The communist directive:(Chinese)AB团非常阴险狡猾、奸诈强硬，非用最残酷拷打，决不肯招供出来.....以期根本消灭。 Translation: Anti-Bolshevik League members are very cunning, treacherous and deceptive, unless we use the most severe and cruel torture, they will not confess.....we have to exterminate them absolutely.

Communist directive:(Chinese)对於首领当然采取非常手段处决，但须注意，在群众大会中由群众斩杀。……富农小资产阶级以上和流氓地痞的AB团杀无赦. Translation: Those leaders had to be executed using extreme method, but beware, let the masses kill them during Pi Dou mass rally....rich peasants and Petty bourgeoisie and gangsters and hooligans execute without delay.

See also

• Red Terror
• Rummel's Law
• Pi Dou mass rally
• Great Purge
• Zhen Fan

References

1. "RED TERROR vs WHITE TERROR". republicanchina.org. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
2. John King Fairbank (1986). The Cambridge history of China 作者：John King Fairbank, Albert Feuerwerker,. Cambridge University Press. ISBN ISBN 0521243386, 9780521243384. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

• Political and cultural purges
• Political repression
• Persecution
• Political repression in the People's Republic of China
• Democides