The Communist Party's version of history was never meant to help people understand the truth, but to make them forget it.

Its narrative logic is like a magic show. The audience's eyes are constantly drawn to movements, lights, and smoke, yet they never see the real mechanism behind it all.

The faster the magician's hands move, the harder it becomes to detect the real secret. The Communist Party's telling of history works exactly this way: it constantly creates new slogans, struggles, commemorative days, and grand narratives, keeping people's attention firmly fixed on superficial gestures. People follow its hand movements with their eyes, never seeing the real operating mechanism beneath the stage.

The Magic Trick of the War of Resistance

It tells you "the CCP led the War of Resistance," creating commemorative days, making films, holding grand parades. But what's the real mechanism? It's the secret pact signed between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, it's the main consumption paid by the Kuomintang armies. The Communist Party remained largely on the periphery during the war, yet through post-war narrative control, packaged itself as the "sole hero."

From 1937 to 1945, the Kuomintang armies bore the main combat responsibilities on the frontal battlefield. The Battle of Shanghai, the Defense of Nanjing, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battles of Changsha—these decisive major campaigns were all undertaken by Kuomintang forces. The CCP armies mainly conducted guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, with relatively limited scale and impact.

But in post-war narratives, the CCP, through controlling the education system, media propaganda, and historical writing, shaped itself into the "mainstay of resistance." The success of this narrative transformation is precisely the essence of "magic"—making the audience see not the facts, but what the performer wants them to see.

The Magic Trick of National Unity

It constantly emphasizes "five thousand years of Chinese national unity," making people indulge in fictional continuity. But the real mechanism is: Manchuria, Xinjiang, Tibet were never a natural whole, but the result of imperial expansion and colonization. The Communist Party uses fictional national mythology to mask its own colonial control.

Historical China was more often divided than united. The Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the Wei-Jin-Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Song-Liao-Jin confrontations—these were the norm. The so-called "unification" was often achieved through military conquest, far removed from the modern concept of nation-states.

Present-day Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and other regions were historically independent from Central Plains regimes for long periods, with different languages, cultures, and religious traditions. Incorporating these regions into the concept of the "Chinese nation" is itself a modern political construction, not historical fact.

The Magic Trick of Soviet Relations

It claims to be "independent and autonomous," saying the "Sino-Soviet split" proved it wasn't dependent. But the real mechanism is: its founding was a Soviet espionage project, an imported proxy revolution. Its later turn toward America was just another form of dependence.

The CCP's founding in 1921 directly received financial and personnel support from the Communist International. Early CCP leaders like Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao all had close connections with the Soviet side. Soviet advisors like Borodin and Maring directly participated in the CCP's organizational construction and strategic formulation.

Even during the so-called "Sino-Soviet split" period, the CCP's disagreements with the Soviet Union were more tactical than fundamental. Both sides remained highly consistent ideologically, with disagreements mainly focused on leadership of the international communist movement.

The contact with America in the 1970s was likewise based on realpolitik considerations. The shift from dependence on the Soviet Union to alignment with America reflects not "independence and autonomy," but pragmatic diplomatic strategy.

The Nature of Magic

Once you blow away the smoke on stage and hold down the magician's hands, the truth is actually extremely simple:

The Communist Party's ability to exist is not due to "historical inevitability," but because it successfully diverted people's attention, making them mistake the performance for history itself.

The success of this narrative strategy lies in creating a closed interpretive system. Within this system, all events are given specific meanings, all contradictions are rationalized, all questioning is marginalized. People become accustomed to thinking within this system rather than stepping outside to examine the system's own rationality.

After Seeing Through the Illusion

And when these illusions are seen through, you discover everything is not complicated at all.

Power is power, colonialism is colonialism, betrayal is betrayal.

There's no mysterious inevitability, no complex theoretical systems.

It's just that simple.

History needs no magic, truth needs no packaging. When we stop following the magician's gestures and start observing with our own eyes, those seemingly complex historical mists often reveal an extremely simple true face.

This is perhaps why those who control discourse never spare any effort to create new performances, new smoke, new gestures—because once people stop and quietly observe, the truth is often surprisingly simple.