The Research Of Veterans Who Returned Home In 1950s

After the construction of the new regime in 1949, the communist party of China started large-scale military retired work. There were more than 3700 veterans returning to Macheng in 1950s. The country gave the returning veterans the title of "the people’s hero" through polices and propaganda,hoping that through to reach the demobilized soldiers to social power. The group enjoyed a higher political status. The resettlement of veterans was the village cadres and the villagers political task. Macheng county gave them some materials of production and living, and solved thetroubles in their marriage life. Part of the veterans participate in the grass-roots regime, or become a national model in the field of agricultural production. However, many veterans encountered problems in rural, such as the difficulties of life, the contradictions with the village cadres, marriage Disputes. In the other palce of the nationwide, the veterans "petitioned" "troubled" and even suicided. It seem to be full of contradictions and conflicts in the two-way adaptation process. Face the "people’s hero",the original rural elites-the village cadres afraid that thier leadship will be taken;rural people had with political estrangement with the "Guilaizhe"--veteran; in the process of role change which were from the military to the workers,veterans need to readapt to the rural rules. All of those factors, the veterans had many difficulties in the village life. This also is the rsason that veterans one important part in the mass incidents in the 1950s.