1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

"Your Highness the Saint..."

Archbishop Joseph held Chuntian's hand, tears on the verge of his eyes.

Ever since the Vatican's "encyclical" and various rumors came out, the entire Catholic Church has been in a state of panic.

Especially Spain, which Springfield is about to visit.

This Saint Lady doesn't seem to be someone who is easy to deal with. What if she insists on "divinely punishing" everyone indiscriminately?

Some of the evil, corrupt and depraved bastards do deserve to die, but not everyone in the church is a jerk!

The question is, will Ms. Field make that distinction?

Who among these ordinary clergymen dared to say no to this "god" who made the Pope and the cardinals unable to resist and the new Pope willingly kneel down and serve as a dog?

Everyone was worried about being implicated and resented, and some priests whose faith had already collapsed were even prepared to commit suicide.

The same thing happened to Joseph.

The Barcelona church he led didn't actually do much evil, or rather, didn't have the opportunity to do much evil.

In Barcelona, ​​where shipping and small-scale textile industries are relatively developed and the economy is among the best in Spain, the church is not very powerful and its status is not as high as imagined.

Because the common people pursue money and economy, their thoughts are more open and enlightened. In short, they are not as easy to fool as the poor and ignorant people in the mountains of northern Spain, and there are not many people who blindly worship the church.

From the establishment of the First Spanish Republic until now, and especially in recent years, Barcelona has even seen cases of ordinary civilians robbing and even killing clergy!

In this situation, do you still dare to do evil?

Power is prone to get out of control when there is a lack of supervision and suppression.

In fact, whether it was for the purpose of "seizing power", "saving face" or out of genuine compassion, Joseph did lead the Barcelona Church to do some good things.

Now, his "merits" were recognized by the "gods" who thought they would kill him. As his emotions ran high, Archbishop Joseph's voice choked with sobs:

“Your Highness, I…” “Alright, alright, alright…”

Chuntian smiled slightly, patted the archbishop's hand, and said in a gentle but unquestionable tone:

"Listen to me, now the Church in Spain and even the entire Christian world needs more than just doing some good things, but a thorough reform. We are here to restore the glory of God and to restore the image that our clergy should be."

"Spain's chief cardinal has fallen and returned to the arms of Satan. Now, we need the power of example and a firm pioneer..."

Now, even if Joseph was stupid, he understood what Chuntian meant. He immediately patted his chest with even greater excitement and solemnly promised:

"Yes! Ms. Field! I am willing to be the pioneer!" What is a "pioneer"?

If you do what others dare not or are unwilling to do, you will be a pioneer that attracts much attention!

There is no doubt that for a long time to come, unless something unexpected happens, Springfield will firmly control the entire Catholic Church and even the entire Christian world. Spain will naturally be within the scope of the reform and will have no ability to resist.

As long as the Barcelona church takes the lead in distributing land, fields and property to the poor, churches in other parts of Spain will have to follow suit even if they don't want to. Otherwise, they will be accused of "disrespecting God's will" in no time.

The new Vatican would certainly be happy to kill a few "apostates" to show their loyalty to Saint Field.

If you don't kneel down and accept the olive branch extended by a boss of this level, and treat it with the utmost loyalty and sincerity, what else do you plan to do?

Yes, perhaps Her Majesty's requirements are rather strict. Some things that we used to be able to do are no longer possible, and we can no longer enjoy fine wine and beautiful women. But that is what Catholicism should be like!

If you can't adapt, find your own problem! If that doesn't work, just get out!

Although the risks for pioneers are great, the rewards they receive are always the greatest!

Kneeling to beg for food?

So many people want to kneel but they can't do it!

"Haha, very good. Tell me, what are your plans for the future?" "Yes! I will immediately take out..."

As all political forces in Spain thought, Springfield bypassed the Vatican, directly controlled the Spanish Church, and announced a series of reform policies centered on "land reform" in order to gradually seize the Spanish political power.

This actually did not conform to the commander's policy, but there was no other way. There were hundreds of political forces, large and small, in the whole of Spain, and none of them were reliable, so he had to do it himself.

That's right, there are hundreds of subdivided political forces, from plantation slave owners to feudal monarchies, from capitalists to anarchists, from socialists to communists, covering almost all factions in the world, but none of them are reliable.

Whether they are "reliable" or not is not determined by whether they believe in communism or whether they represent "fashion", but is purely based on the perspective of building the country and ensuring the happiness and well-being of the people.

Including... no, especially the so-called "Spanish left-wing forces" who were praised to the sky by many people in later generations who did not know the truth. It is no exaggeration to say that they are not even as good as Franco, the "right-winger" who was called a "brutal dictator."

As mentioned earlier, the Azaña government of the Second Spanish Republic was very complex, which resulted in them being not only slow to respond but also conflicting in their policies.

(1931年西班牙公投,反对君主制的市议员为39248人(共和派34368人,社会主义者4813人，共产主义者67人)，赞成君主制的却有41224人)

From the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic until the end of the Civil War, when the left suffered a crushing defeat, they made five main mistakes:

The overly weak land policy offended most farmers and also dissatisfied the landlords;

Overly tolerant national policies offended pan-Spanish nationalists and representatives of the Industrial Party;

Overly radical religious policies offended church forces and Catholic believers (including farmers);

The overly "leftist" united front policy offended a large number of other "leftist forces"; the overly demanding military policy offended the experienced old army officer system. Of these five major mistakes, the first two can be attributed to "petty-bourgeois weakness" and need no further explanation;

The next three errors are the same:

The overly radical theory of class contradictions is seriously mismatched with the actual situation. Let’s talk about religion first.

From a class-based perspective, religion should certainly be eliminated. However, as mentioned above, Spain's unique circumstances meant that unless you could unify financial and religious power and use force to push through reforms, you simply couldn't eliminate Catholicism.

However, the left, which had nothing, immediately took the stance of pushing Catholicism completely to the other side. After the outbreak of the civil war, they organized people to crazily massacre clergy, regardless of whether they were innocent or not.

整个内战期间有12名大主教、283名修女、5255名教士、2492名修道士和249名见习修道士遭到杀害，占当时西班牙全部神职人员的23%。

In the Barbastro region, where the problem was most severe, 123 of the 140 clergy were killed. Some frenzied left-wing members led mobs to burn churches, rape nuns, and dig up and desecrate corpses.

Not only clergymen, but also their relatives and those who provided shelter for the fleeing clergymen were killed. Even innocent civilians were accused of being "fascists" by the militia and shot for going to church.

Under such circumstances, no matter how cowardly the Holy See was and how much it did not want to be an enemy of the powerful communist forces represented by the Soviet Union, it would not tolerate it and could only provide manpower and money to help fight the Spanish left.

Secondly, not all of the Spanish left is Marxist. There are also a large number of anarchists and other "left" factions. Their political views and beliefs are not consistent. Due to the lack of united front work, there is constant infighting among the factions.

Now, due to the great pressure from Franco and other "right-wing forces", the contradictions among the "left" can be barely concealed. As long as there is a little unrest, it will immediately split;

For example, in 1937, due to conflicts such as the uneven distribution of materials, the Bolsheviks and other factions even broke out in a civil war within a civil war, killing each other and shedding blood, which led to a great loss of the left-wing military strength and was taken advantage of by Franco.

Finally, regarding the military issue.

In fact, these "right-wing officers", including Franco, just like General Sanjujo who had just rebelled, were very welcome and willing to join the left at the beginning.

However, the left-wing government adopted an extremely hostile attitude towards these officers, forcing them to retire by using the same tactics the US government used to deceive veterans (i.e., promising them money to retire and then not paying them back);

Later, the left-wing government dominated by communists, under the wrong guidance of the Communist International, fully carried out the fatherly style and carried out one purge after another!

As a result, nearly 70% of the officers in the left-wing camp were killed by their own people, and the officers who escaped the disaster defected to Franco...

What was Franco doing at this time?

He used assassination and other means to eliminate officers on the right wing who disagreed with him, established his absolute authority and ordered the army to "avoid all internal conflicts and disputes as much as possible and strive for stability."

Then, he magnanimously accepted all the "former left-wing officers" who came to him for surrender, and turned around to command these people to fight the left-wing government.

By the way, although the idea of ​​"protecting women's rights and granting women the right to vote" was first proposed by the "left", it was the "right" such as Franco who were most active in promoting this matter.

Because Franco and others found that most women and their families did not support the "left wing", but were quite fond of many of their "right wing" policies. The general election in November 1933 fully proved this judgment.

In short, in the end, the entire Spanish "left" was completely crazy, infinitely divided, and attacked anyone they saw like a mad dog, using unreasonable massacres instead of fighting with the "right".

The more we fight to the death, the more it proves the importance of internal struggle; the more anyone criticizes me for internal struggle, the more it proves that internal struggle is correct;

The International Brigade's opposition to our internal struggle shows that the International Brigade has become a coward and a traitor;

The disappointment of the International Brigade's departure further proved that the International Brigade was a coward and a traitor; the more spies and traitors were shot, the more it proved that the importance of the Great Purge was above all else;

The moment Bethune opposed the internal strife, he had already become an enemy who had to be killed;

The fact that the Soviet Union is not continuing to assign new International Brigades to me shows that the Soviet Union has become an enemy...

That's right, this group of Spanish "leftists" trained by the Communist International not only carried out purges and massacres in Spain, which even the international brigades that came to support them could not bear, but later even prepared to attack the Soviets.

The situation was so bad that even the United States, which had always been happy to interfere in other countries' internal affairs, could not stand it. The then US Secretary of State Hull specifically instructed the US Embassy in Spain:

"We must adhere to the established policy of the U.S. government of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, whether in peacetime or during civil war, and no matter what happens in unfortunate Spain, the U.S. government must not interfere." (Laughs)

It's so outrageous that you can't tell who is "left wing" and who is "right wing".

Springfield (Mark) certainly couldn't support the backward elements like landlords in using land and capital to exploit the people, but could such "left-wing elements" be relied upon?

Obviously not.

So there was no other choice but to lead the teaching myself.

Through the practical actions of the church, the increasingly fierce "left-right struggle" can be temporarily suppressed, allowing the focus to return to actual work.

Having wielded the stick enough and offered the carrot, having won over the heart of a relatively good high-ranking clergyman, Springfield shifted his gaze from Bishop Joseph to the representatives of the various Spanish factions present.

"Everyone, as Bishop Joseph said, from today onwards, all churches in Barcelona will be fully open. Regardless of religious beliefs, anyone in need can go in and seek help. They can get medical care, education, legal advice, and other services. Church-owned land will also be distributed to landless farmers..."

After this series of reform measures were announced, the atmosphere on the scene became increasingly solemn.

Representatives from various Spanish factions looked at each other, their hearts churning with extremely complicated emotions;

They understood that this reform was not only a transformation of the church, but also a reshuffling of the entire Spanish power structure;

Needless to say, some of the "right-wing elements" representing the landlord class were unhappy at this time, even the anarchists and socialists who supported land distribution were a little unhappy.

These are the things we should be doing!

How can we allow an outsider like you to interfere?

As the current nominal supreme ruler of all of Spain, Prime Minister Azaña's face was terribly gloomy, and he managed a forced smile:

"Ms. Field, your reform plan is admirable, but don't such radical measures require more discussion and consultation? After all, this concerns the future of all of Spain. We..."

"Discussion and negotiation?"

Springfield, who had been quite polite to Azaña, now sarcastically said, "Mr. Prime Minister, if discussion and negotiation could resolve the problem, Spain would have long since become a prosperous country. But in fact, it is these endless arguments and delays that have led Spain into its current predicament..."

Asaniya obviously didn't expect Chuntian to be so tough. His face turned red and white, and expressions of embarrassment, dissatisfaction, anger, and shame kept flashing across his face. He could only grit his teeth and say:

"So, you think that if we involve the church in this reform, we can solve this dilemma?"

"Indeed, as long as the church remains steadfast in its principles and purpose."

Joseph and other clergymen immediately stood up straight, looked serious, and prepared to listen attentively to the "holy sermon".

"What?"

"Serve the people wholeheartedly." "...Huh?"

Asaniya and others looked at each other, confusion and shock written all over their faces. They couldn't understand or refute.

What is serving the people?

This idea is too advanced and no one has ever heard of it.

After all, neither monarchy, capitalism, nor socialism and communism, which emerged only a few years ago, have ever explicitly placed "the people" at the core of all actions.

Let alone the West, even in the East, a certain teacher comrade has not had the time to organize and perfect the ideological system of "serving the people" and promote it to the entire party and the entire army (although he has already done so).

"With the people at the center and the main body, we will prioritize their well-being, needs, and interests, address their difficulties and problems through concrete actions, and ensure that the fruits of development are shared by all."

Chuntian said in a resounding voice:

"This is not an empty slogan, but the mission that the Church should fulfill. All our actions must revolve around this. Only by thoroughly integrating the interests of the Church with those of the people can we reshape our image and restore our original sacred status!"

church?

It's not just the church, right?

Are you forcing us to get closer to you through the church's actions? You are truly worthy of being Her Highness the Saint and the President of the United States.

Haruta raised his chin slightly and, with a sacred gesture, recited these words, which most people still cannot understand but are of vital importance to the future:

"The Church will always unswervingly represent the development requirements of society's advanced productive forces, always represent the direction of advanced culture, and always represent the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the people!"

“This is our new church!”

515 I will expel you from the right! I will expel you from the left!

liberation theology;

Red Catholicism;

Turn left with your right turn signal on;

Combining Christianity with Socialism...

No matter what you call it, Commander Springfield has become very skilled at this.