Kang Sheng's Character Evaluation

Kang Sheng was an early party member of * * *, and once held an important leadership position of the Party and the country. During the Cultural Revolution, he directly participated in the conspiracy activities of Lin Biao, Jiang Qing and others to usurp the party and seize power while serving as the consultant of the Central Cultural Revolution Group, the head of the propaganda group of the Central Organization and the vice chairman of the Central Committee. They premeditated to frame and persecute a large number of party and state leaders; At the same time, it incited "burning, killing and looting" all over the country, incited war, persecuted leading cadres, masses and intellectuals at all levels, created a large number of unjust, false and wrong cases, and became criminals through the ages.

1980 in view of his serious crimes, the central government decided to expel him from the party, revoke his eulogy and publicize his crimes.

Shi Zhecun wrote Memoirs of Shi Zhecun, which comprehensively described Kang Sheng's actions during the Yan 'an rectification movement.

Kang Sheng is the "leader" who led Jiang Qing from the entertainment circle to the revolutionary road.

Kuang Yaming, the former secretary of Kang Sheng, once said: "Kang Sheng is such a person with' Left' thinking, but he can't be said to be anti-Party. You can't make people so bad. " He also recalled: "Shortly after I arrived in Yan 'an, Kang Sheng gave me a poem:' Old friends are old friends if they don't meet. Power cannot be bent, nor can it be without. "Kang Sheng has just returned from the Soviet Union. Shi Zhe said in his article that Kang Sheng gave me a poem to tease me, but this is not the case. This poem is good. Kang Sheng can write with both hands. I don't know where this poem by Kang Sheng went during the Cultural Revolution. (Wang Chunnan: "Listening to the Memories of President Kuang Yaming")

What's Kang Sheng like? To illustrate with the facts that happened to him, that is: "Kang Sheng helped President Kuang (the president of Nantah after him) in history-in the 1930s, President Kuang was almost killed by a man who carried out the left-leaning route in Shanghai because he opposed the ultra-left approach, and Kang Sheng spoke for him to keep him from being pursued by left-leaning elements", but in the Cultural Revolution, then "if you are not good, you are nothing. An American journalist commented on Kang Sheng in one sentence: He is the king of hell on earth.

Kang Sheng is very good at collecting and appreciating cultural relics. He especially likes to collect guyan and other good Four Treasures of the Study books. He is especially good at calligraphy, painting and opera, and has a lot of contacts with people in the art world. He and Guo Moruo call each other "Lao Guo" and "Kang Lao"; During the Cultural Revolution, when property ownership prevailed, the harvest was very rich, and more than 34,000 books and 5,500 cultural relics were looted-thus "protecting" some precious cultural relics and works of art in disguise.

After the Cultural Revolution, the cultural relics collected by Kang Sheng were exhibited in Jingshan Park, which was amazing-but Memoirs of Wang Li, a member of the Central Cultural Revolution, denied that "Kang Sheng stole cultural relics".