The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China, which ended its work on October 22, can be called the "Congress of the Winner", which should be understood as Chinese President Xi Jinping.
During the congress, four high-ranking mandarins were removed from their posts, who were seen as the leaders of the top opposition to President Xi, and the opposition of the Westernist persuasion.
"Why should we quarrel with America, when until recently we got along so well with her."
The chairman himself was praised in excellent terms.
“China has achieved historic achievements and witnessed historic changes in party and state affairs;
these successes have been achieved through the firm leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping as its core, and the scientifically sound leadership of Xi Jinping's ideas of socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era."
"It is necessary to more consciously defend Xi Jinping's status as the core of the CPC Central Committee and the party as a whole, more consciously defend the authority of the CPC Central Committee and support its unified centralized leadership."
Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out that “the entire Party and all the multinational people of the country should unite under the banner of the Party like strong steel and concentrate all thoughts and forces so that the gigantic ship of the great revival of the Chinese nation, cutting through the waves, confidently sails at full sail on a long voyage. ".
“The report to the 20th Congress was drawn up on the basis of the rebirth of the Chinese nation and against the backdrop of unprecedented changes in the world over the past 100 years.
The delegates unanimously declared their approval of this report.”
Etc.
The great helmsman Xi, however, has not yet been called, but what are our years?
More will be called.
And this is not a trifle - or such a trifle that can become decisive.
But the most important thing is something else.
The legal custom, according to which the supreme position in the PRC is held for ten years, after which a new bogdykhan is appointed by elite consensus - and also for a decade, ordered to live long.
This custom worked with Jiang Zemin (1993-2003) and Hu Jintao (2003-2013), but that's about it.
President Xi passed the ten-year barrier and confidently entered a new five-year term.
But we were told that in China, despite all the specifics of the political mechanism, mandarins recognize the need for regular rotation.
It turned out that they recognized, but now they have ceased to recognize.
In this sense, the historical 20th Congress of the CPC is a mirror image of the historical 20th Congress of the CPSU.
Back in 1956, the CPSU Congress adopted a resolution on the cult of personality and its consequences, which was a rejection of leaderism and affirmed the need for collective leadership.
Of course, things didn't turn out so smoothly.
Following the condemnation of the personality cult of Stalin, Khrushchev's personality cult immediately began to emerge, but in any case, no one canceled the 1956 decree - it was simply silenced.
Although the collective leadership under Brezhnev is an obvious fact.
Something of the spirit of the XX Congress of the CPSU remained.
Whereas the 20th Congress of the CPC is a complete revision (with our money, generally speaking) of the “restoration of the Leninist norms of party and state life” that came after the death of Chairman Mao, and the establishment (albeit cautious for the time being) of the cult of Chairman Xi.
The wheel of history is what it is.
The difference between the two historical congresses is explained by the fact that the 20th Congress of the CPSU took place only three years after Stalin's death.
The aftertaste - and, to put it mildly, not always pleasant - from his thirty-year reign was quite large.
That is why the "restoration of Lenin's norms" went off with a bang!
Which, by the way, many of today's thinkers are quite surprised.
By the way, in 1979, three years after Mao's death, when the battle of the Diadochi was going on in China, the restoration of the personality cult would not have been understood by everyone either.
It is a different matter now, when almost half a century has passed since the death of Mao.
There is much less of a heavy aftertaste, and Mao, especially the cult of personality in general, is far less critical in China today than in the USSR during the thaw years.
Decades pass and things change.
Although Xi Jinping himself was sent in 1969 for labor re-education to the village, where he endured hunger, cold, parasite bites and deaf loneliness for seven years.
I could not forgive this cult of personality, but it turned out the other way around: as a result of re-education, I became not a liberal-anti-communist, but quite the opposite - “redder than red.”
And in the end we saw the triumph of the cult at the XX Congress -
"Sits under the canopy
Chinese Xi Jinping
And he says to the tangerines:
I'm the chief mandarin."
And even then to say: if the times were more favorable, perhaps the establishment of the Xi cult would have been more difficult.
But when the Americans broke loose as if from a chain, the Chinese comrades reasoned that now is not up to Lenin's beginnings -
“Let in a storm and bad weather
One is in power."
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.