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Following PLA’s decisive victory over the Indian forces in the 1962 “self-defensive counter war,” Mao Zedong was asked to give his assessment of the PLA’s remarkable feat. Chief of Staff, Commander Luo Ruiqing, while submitting his general report to Mao, emphasised on the driving spirit of the troops and said that the PLA troops are “Neither afraid of hardships nor afraid of death.” To which, Mao gave a philosophical reply: “Yue Fei had said, when civilians don’t ask for a bribe and military officials are not afraid to die, the world is peaceful.” “Starve to death without snatching others food, freeze to death without tearing down others homes,” these lines are superficial. To which, Jin Wuzhu said: “Shaking the mountain is easy, but shaking the Yue family is difficult.” To this, I would say: “Shaking the mountain is easier, shaking PLA is not!”
Source: Zhihu.com
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