Ich bin Koreaner und habe 밤은 노래한다 (einen sehr düsteren Roman über die Tragödien der Koreaner in der Mandschurei) gelesen, aber ich hatte keine Ahnung, dass ihre Geschichte auf diese Weise dargestellt werden könnte. Ich finde es verdammt cool. Der Militärführer Kim Jwajin ist in Korea als „Patriot“ bekannt, aber ich wusste nicht, dass er Anarchist war oder zumindest eine anarchistische Kommune leitete. Er wurde als Adliger geboren, befreite jedoch im Alter von 18 Jahren seine Sklaven und verbrannte das Sklavenregister seiner Familie. Dann ging er in die Mandschurei, um die Guerilla gegen Japan anzuführen. Der Roman 밤은 노래한다 („Die Nacht summt“) ist eine sehr düstere Geschichte dieser koreanischen Idealisten in kleinen ländlichen Dörfern, die sowohl von der sowjetischen Kommunistischen Partei als auch von japanischen Imperialisten zersplittert werden, beginnen, sich gegenseitig als Spione zu verdächtigen und sich schließlich gegenseitig zu töten. Ich habe online gesehen, dass ihre anarchistische Kommune von der Größe her mit spanischen und ukrainischen vergleichbar ist. Wollte es nur teilen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People%27s_Association_in_Manchuria
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Kim Jwa-jin has traditionally been honored in Korea as a leading anti-Japanese resistance figure. However, a growing body of testimonies from contemporaneous independence activists, along with modern historical research, presents a more critical assessment of his activities in Manchuria.
These sources indicate that the anarchist forces under his command engaged in systematic coercion of Korean peasant communities, including the extraction of protection payments and the use of violence against those who refused to comply. In some cases, such practices have been characterized by scholars as resembling organized extortion.
Evidence also suggests that such actions contributed directly to local hostility. His assassination is widely interpreted in this line of scholarship as an act of retaliation, carried out by individuals connected to victimized peasant families in cooperation with rival socialist factions.
Furthermore, the strained relationship between nationalist–anarchist armed groups and Korean peasants appears to have had broader consequences. Reports indicate that some peasants, alienated by violence and exploitation, provided intelligence to Japanese authorities, thereby weakening resistance networks. These developments were noted with concern by Kim Ku, a leading figure of the Korean independence movement, who reportedly criticized the indiscriminate use of violence and its negative impact on civilian support.
Within this context, a number of historians argue that the decline of nationalist and anarchist influence in Manchuria during the late 1920s, and the subsequent rise of socialist movements in the 1930s, can be partly attributed to their failure to secure the sustained support of the Korean peasantry. Although other geopolitical and ideological factors also played a role, the loss of popular backing is considered a significant contributing factor in this transition.