RED CHINESE BATTLE PLAN

Year Published: 1967

Format: 16mm

Description: Informational film on development of Communist China and relationship to West. Produced by Dept. of Defense in 1967. Picture of Lin Biao (0:16). Narrator explains from Western perspective China’s plan for world revolution (0:31). Title credit (0:45). Pagodas (1:10). Great Wall of China (1:20) and stone statues (1:40). Camels crossing the desert (1:50). 20th century Chinese market (2:10). Historic footage of human powered agricultural equipment (2:30). Colonization of China by Europe (2:50). Sun Yat-sen (3:23). Comparison to George Washington (3:31). Large crowds and protests (3:44). Birth of Chinese communist party, Mao Zedong at founding conference in 1921 (3:52). Chinese peasants writing (4:05). Armed Chinese Red Guard (4:15). Chiang Kai-shek (4:22). Chinese Nationalist soldiers marching (4:25). Footage from Mao Zedong long march (5:30). Caves of Yan’an (6:05). Woman using rice flails (6:18). Communists studying (6:25). Communists working with peasants (6:50). Chinese peasants dancing (7:05). Chiang Kai-shek writing (7:16). Japanese soldiers marching (7:20). Man running pulling rickshaw (7:35). Historic Chinese policeman (7:45). Mitsubishi Ki-21 flying in formation (7:53). Bombing of Shanghai 1937 (8:00). Running Japanese soldiers (8:05). Wounded Chinese civilians (8:20). Mao Zedong outside house (8:35). Mao Zedong portrait on train (8:40). Marching red army troops with Mao Zedong portrait (8:55). Surrender of Japanese to Chinese in 1945 (9:20). Impoverished Chinese eating grass (9:35). Mao Zedong launches war of national liberation (10:00). Communist troops practice with Arisaka Type 99 rifle and Type 30 bayonet (10:03). Chinese communists practice bayonet fighting (10:21). Marching Chinese soldiers outside Great Wall (10:41). Chinese camouflaged guerrillas (10:50). Chinese communist soldier using megaphone (11:05). Soldier firing ZB-26 machine gun (11:05). Chinese soldiers firing Type 92 infantry artillery (11:09). Burning Chinese villages (11:15). War of annihilation and trains with soldiers (11:23). Mass Chinese troop movements (11:43). Gongchen tank in battle (11:51). Mass troop advances (12:12). Gongchen tanks (12:20). Troops advance over railroad bridge (12:28). Train with Mao Zedong portrait (12:33). Crowd with Mao Zedong posters (12:36). Hong Qi "Red Flag Car" (12:41). Mao Zedong shaking hands (12:43). Military parade with Gongchen tanks, artillery, and procession of Tianjin or Shanghai jeeps (12:51). Female soldier on horse (12:58). Large poster of Chiang Kai-shek. Footage from Taiwan (13:13). Mao Zedong announces people’s republic of China (13:55). Korean War (14:40). United Nations troops in South Korea (15:00). Red Chinese Army supporting North Korean troops (15:10). Combat footage in Korea (15:27). Korean Armistice Agreement signed by General William Harrison Jr. and Nam Il (15:49). Celebrating Chinese troops (16:05). Mao Zedong arrives in Moscow (16:40). Aerial footage of Moscow (16:44). Signing of Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship Alliance and Mutual Assistance by Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin (16:58). Nikita Khrushchev announces De-Stalinization (17:20). Moscow State University (17:47). Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed by Dean Rusk, Andrei Gromyko, and Alec Douglas-Home (18:20). Marching Chinese soldiers (18:50). Chinese ambassadors arrive in Havana, Cuba (19:19). Fidel Castro greets Chinese envoys (19:22). Raul Castro decorated by Chinese military officials (19:35). Stadium demonstration in Albania (19:53). Large Chinese political rally (20:14). Ghana Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah greets Chinese envoys (20:30). Zhou Enlai speaks with Kwame Nkrumah (20:44). Women with rifles (21:00). Zhou Enlai meets with Pakistani President Ayub Khan (21:13). China making alliances with Indonesia (21:40). Lin Biao "Long live the victory of the People’s War" (22:15). Animated depiction of Red China’s plan for global revolution (22:54). Viet Cong guerrilla fighters (23:30). Viet Cong child soldier (23:39). Viet Cong building pit-fall booby trap (23:50). Chained dead civilian prisoners, evidence of Communist war crimes (24:10). Crowd marching with portraits of Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong (24:25). Evidence of failure of Communist China influence (24:54). Crowd of protesting Ghanaians (25:00). Storming of Chinese embassy by students in Indonesia (25:17). Fidel Castro (25:30). Manila Summit Conference of 1966 (25:45). Concluding remarks (26:36). U.S. soldiers helping Vietnamese civilians construct building (26:53). Liberty bell and U.S. Constitution (27:06).

Complete Record:

Transcription

[Music] this is lean biel communist china's vice premier and minister of defense not long ago he told the world of red chyna's strategy for communist conquest of the free world [Music] it is a blueprint for world revolution red china's battle plan divide and encircle conquer and enslave this film tells how it all came about [Music] the china of old is but dimly remembered and yet modern china is heir to the world's oldest culture a culture that first flowered five thousand years ago in the third century bc three million chinese labored to build the great wall and in that same century china became the world's first police state complete with slave labor and thought control by 700 a.d china was the greatest nation on earth an area population government and intellectual growth six hundred years later marco polo traveled to peking to serve in the court of kublai khan [Music] then it began the decline and fall of imperial china hostile suspicious isolated china clung stubbornly to ancient ways as the old world and the new moved into and passed through the industrial revolution [Music] china backward defenseless impotent became easy prey for the world powers who by wars threats of wars and exploitation stripped away territories and trading rights [Music] in 100 years china ceased to dominate various territories which included three and one-half million square miles an area equal in size to three india's or almost all of europe [Music] never in history had a major independent nation lost so much sovereignty and suffered so much humiliation entering the 20th century china is a backward nation ruled by an autocratic system of emperors and kings her people are restless they want to change they demand new leadership they find both in dr sunyat sen the george washington of china who leads a people's revolution in 1911 that overthrows the corrupt manchu dynasty dr soon's attempts to establish democracy in china are hampered by reactionaries restorationists warlords and amid the chaos and unrest the chinese communist party is born [Music] attends the founding conference in 1921 a man of the soil he believes that the ultimate power in china belongs to the peasants who make up 80 percent of the nation's population [Music] and so says china's communist revolution must begin in the rural areas and sweep over the cities [Music] succeeding works with the communists at first but in 1927 he purges them from his government chung's armies are able to drive the red troops into the mountains but he can never wipe them out [Music] and in 1934 mao zedong undertakes his long march in search of sanctuary in the remote province of shenzi in the caves of yemen it is as if an army had been ordered to march on foot 6 000 miles to hostile territory in one year following a tortuous roundabout route the communists cross 18 mountain ranges some of them higher than the european alps [Music] in the beginning there are 180 000 marchers in the communist caravan curling across the hills and plains of china for 50 miles and more casualties are enormous three-quarters of the marchers die on route but the survivors press on and when they reach their mountain sanctuary mao himself is on hand to salute and welcome them he is and has been throughout the long march in full command [Music] there are only a few thousand communists in the caves of yemen but from this humble beginning their influence will grow and multiply reach out and conquer [Music] the communists ideologically are constantly on the attack denouncing the nationalist government and chiang kai-shek [Applause] and mao does something no military leader in china has done before he sends his soldiers into the fields to work beside the peasants to help them and to talk to them of the new china the communist china in which landlords will be made to give up their farms to the peasants [Music] propaganda teams travel the countryside dancers perform morality plays in which the landlords are the devils and the communists are the forces of righteousness trampling their class enemy chiang kai-shek is aware of the growing pro-communist sentiment in china he realizes that it is a threat as great if not greater than the aggressive ambitions of the japanese for chiang and for nationalist china the sands of time are running out and yet the nation her cities and her people reflect little of the uneasiness unrest uncertainty that cast their shadows from within and without [Music] shanghai 1937 the blow falls japan strikes [Music] when chiang kai-shek is forced into war with japan when china must fight for her life the communists are given representation in a coalition government makes his real aims very clear we are fighting 70 for self-development 20 for compromise 10 against japan as the sino-japanese war goes on mao is promoted in chinese communist propaganda as a popular anti-japanese patriot wherever and however the red troops move into battle they spread the glory of mao zedong and the greatness of the communist cause on their backs they carry posters and slogans as they march through the countryside [Music] when the war ends in 1945 mao's gorillas have grown from 40 000 to 1 million [Music] the enemy from without has been conquered but within the fight has just begun for post-war china is a nation exhausted by battle people eat grass misery and hunger are deeply etched on the land and on the people [Music] this is the time for mount zitung to launch his so-called war of national liberation communist forces have been strengthened by the acquisition of captured japanese weapons and ammunition stockpiled in manchuria and seized with russian assistance mao's strategy is based on a protracted war a war that will weaken the nationalists as the communists grow stronger [Music] [Applause] anime advances we retreat anime camps we harass anime tires we attack anime retreats we pursue time and again chiang kai-shek's stronger better equipped army units find themselves fighting an elusive shadowy enemy that melts into the mountains and in the midst of battle communist soldiers harangued the nationalists calling on zhang's troops often with great effect to desert to the communist side [Music] mao zedong's self-proclaimed war of national liberation is a series of battles of annihilation injuring all of the man's ten fingers is not as effective as chopping off one and routing ten anime divisions is not as effective as annihilating one of them mao's conquest of mainland china begins with his guerrillas gaining control of the rural areas then the cities are surrounded and isolated engulfed and defeated [Music] [Applause] mao's blueprint for conquest is succeeding just as planned [Music] [Applause] all along mao wu's the intellectuals the middle force in china with talk of a coalition government the united front a new democracy but mao's promises of popular representation only mask the communist leaders real intentions [Music] finally all of mainland china is swallowed up by the so-called liberation movement and one-fourth of the world's population is brought under communist control [Music] but on formosa renamed taiwan more than 10 million chinese remain free chiang kai-shek has escaped and set up a republic of china government in opposition to the communists jung signs a mutual defense treaty with the united states and vows one day to liberate captive china [Music] in beijing on october 1st 1949 mao zedong proclaims the birth of the people's republic of china [Music] in communist china with the war of national liberation one mao zedong reveals to the world that he is no gentle agrarian reformer [Music] in the first five years of the people's republic at least eight hundred thousand anti-communists by mao's own admission are tried and executed millions more die from local excesses from imprisonment from assignment to so-called labor reform units in foreign affairs mao becomes increasingly militant [Music] and in korea in 1950 communist china and the free world come into conflict when south korea is invaded by communist forces from north korea the united nations security council is convened in emergency session in new york and the members vote to send troops into combat to help defend the independence and sovereignty of south korea in december 1950 the red chinese intervened on the side of north korea [Music] for two and one half years the u.n and communist troops fight and fall in korea [Music] the united nations forces hold and in july 1953 at banman jump an armistice is signed fixing boundary lines much as they were when the invasion began general william harrison signs for the united nations general namiel accepts the agreement for north korea as the communist chinese troops withdraw and return to their homeland mao zedong claims a momentous victory over the free world mao tells the world the united states is a paper tiger immediately after the establishment of the people's republic all is harmony between the chinese dragon and the russian bear moscow rolls out the red carpet for the visitor from peking and it is not long before the two giants of the communist world controlling together more than a billion lives sign a 30-year treaty of friendship alliance and assistance each country promises not to join in any coalition against the other and both agree to consult regularly on matters of mutual concern but in 1956 the dragon and the bear come into conflict as nikita khrushchev denounces joseph stalin mao zedong's long time idol when the russian premier proposes a policy of peaceful coexistence with the free world red china attacks khrushchev and the soviet union as traitors to the basic doctrine of world revolution as the years go by the rift grows wider in 1963 russia the united states and great britain agree on an historic treaty banning nuclear testing in the atmosphere outer space and underwater the treaty the increasing contact and communications between russia and the free world reflect the soviet leadership's growing concern with internal problems and so-called peaceful coexistence as a better way than forced to spread communism around the world [Music] dean rusk signs for the united states andre gromyko for the soviet union and alexander douglas hume for great britain red china denounces moscow's new line and sets out to become the leader of world communism as generations of leadership change as years pass speaking may change its militant position but today communist china seeks to spread its own brand of global revolution mao's emissaries are sent into the underdeveloped nations of the world the so-called rural areas red technicians arrive in havana seeking a foothold in the caribbean a satellite in the western hemisphere raul castro fidel's younger brother travels behind the bamboo curtain to be greeted and decorated by chinese military officials [Music] in europe red china wins a satellite in tiny albania and in talks and meetings the red leaders preach their gospel of world revolution through people's wars of national liberation satellite nations are emphatically reminded of mao's admonition political power grows out of the barrel of a gun [Music] in africa ghana and its leader kwame nkrumah received special attention from communist china on state visits the ghanaian president is greeted by joanne lai as peking seeks to spread its influence throughout africa [Music] in asia the chinese communist regime seeks to become a friend and a lie of pakistan [Music] joan lye is peking's apostle of world revolution as he meets with president ayub khan [Music] in alliances and agreements with indonesia and other nations red china adheres to mao zedong's creed of conquest the marxist leninist principles of revolution hold good universally for china and for all the other countries of the world red china's battle plan is spelled out in specific detail in an article written by lien biao vice chairman of the chinese communist party and minister of defense [Music] long live the victory of people's war is the title of the article and its eighteen thousand words are directed toward the ultimate and absolute defeat of the free world victory for communism will come says lin bial through wars of national liberation country by country continent by continent lin biau's blueprint for world revolution follows mao zedong's classic conquest of china dividing the world as a nation is divided into cities and rural areas in this red chinese battle plan north america and western europe are the cities of the world and asia africa central america and south america the rural areas [Music] with revolutions such as the war in vietnam organized everywhere there will be says lien bio a tide of opposition to the free world and the imperialists the reactionaries the khrushchev revisionists will be swept from the stage of history the struggle of the vietcong as lienbiao is now the focus of the struggle of the people of the world the communists are waging a guerrilla war patterned after mao zedong's war of national liberation in south vietnam as in china two decades ago the communists seek to dominate the countryside until the dense thicket of communism surrounds entangles and finally chokes the cities and the vietcong fight with guerrilla tactics tested and perfected by mao zedong use any technique of terror subversion treachery that will harass and [ __ ] the enemy and so civilian prisoners are bound and chained and slaughtered by the vietcong [Music] p king is careful to assert that revolutions cannot be important but says lien bial that does not exclude support for revolutionary peoples in their struggles thus does militant communist china and mao zedong see the day when peking becomes the ideological center of a world enslaved [Music] but in many countries the red chinese battle plan has failed in ghana wame and kruma good friend and faithful ally of mao zedong is today a fallen idol a deposed ruler a man without a country [Music] in indonesia anti-communist riots shake the country and students stormed the red chinese embassy socano is no longer of the absolute ruler of the island empire [Applause] in the caribbean communist china suffers still another setback fidel castro turns his back on peaking and sends red china's technicians home denouncing all but castro's own brand of communism [Music] in asia nations large and small stand together strong alert determined to respond to wars of aggression that deny people the chance to decide their own destiny [Music] striving for peace striving for a world in which nations live by law and reason not by threats and destruction [Music] in a world of so-called cities and rural areas the emerging nations and industrial countries are today partners in progress building together for peace the cities the fortunate nations of the world are bringing to the rural areas the poorer nations the skills and assistance needed to help them and their people build and create a better life for this generation and those to come carrying on a tradition of hope and the dignity of man a conviction born long ago far away when this bell rang out the news that a new nation was born a new truth proclaimed that man is born to be and to remain forever free [Music] so


1 user has this film:
Periscope Film


No related films.