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Theoretically based on a “volunteer” technique, recruiting officers in the CCF knew how to apply political or financial pressures so a man found it prudent to turn out to be a “profession” soldier. Immediately after placing on a uniform, he was vigorously indoctrinated in political as effectively as military subjects. Not only self-criticism, but criticism of one’s comrade-in-arms was encouraged at platoon meetings held specifically for that objective. Employed to extreme hardship from birth, the Chinese peasant soldier in the ranks did not find that military service demanded lots of privations. He was employed to cold and hunger, and he...