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Lei Zhichang is the Political Commissar at Red Coast Base. He is a good scientist but an even better politician, and he embraces communist ideology and political symbolism in every aspect of his work. Though he initially leads the search for alien life, when Ye Wenjie actually gets a message from the Trisolarans, Lei forbids her from responding. To ensure that her secret is safe, Ye takes advantage of Lei’s willingness to do dangerous tasks and kills him while he is out fixing a wire.
Commissar Lei Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Commissar Lei or refer to Commissar Lei . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 22
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“You want to aim a super powerful radio beam at the red sun. Have you thought about the political symbolism of such an experiment?”
Yang and Ye were both utterly stunned, but they did not think Lei’s objection ridiculous. Just the opposite: they were horrified that they themselves had not thought of it. During those years, finding political symbolism in everything had reached absurd levels. The research reports you turned in had to be carefully reviewed by Lei so that even technical terms related to the sun could be repeatedly revised to remove political risk. Terms like “sunspots” were forbidden.
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Commissar Lei Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Commissar Lei or refer to Commissar Lei . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 22
Quotes
“You want to aim a super powerful radio beam at the red sun. Have you thought about the political symbolism of such an experiment?”
Yang and Ye were both utterly stunned, but they did not think Lei’s objection ridiculous. Just the opposite: they were horrified that they themselves had not thought of it. During those years, finding political symbolism in everything had reached absurd levels. The research reports you turned in had to be carefully reviewed by Lei so that even technical terms related to the sun could be repeatedly revised to remove political risk. Terms like “sunspots” were forbidden.
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