CULTURAL REVOLUTION-BIO-ZHU ENLAI-LIN PIAO-COMMUNISM

From left: Chinese top communist leaders Lin Piao (1907-71), minister of defense and supporter of the Cultural revolution, Zhu Enlai (1898-1975), Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China from its inception in 1949 until his death, and (second row, from L), Kang Cheng and Chiang Ching, wave a copies of Mao's Little Red Book" as they celebrate Mao's theories in May1967 during a meeting in Beijing. Mao launched in 1966 the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution", directed against those CCP "party leaders taking the capitalist road". Mao's shock troops were to be the Red Guards, principally middle-school and university students who were to draw inspiration from Mao himself-now the supreme authority in all matters. They were to be guided by "Cultural Revolution Group" of the Central Committee directed by Mao's third wife Jiang Qing. CHINA OUT (Photo by XINHUA / AFP) (Photo by -/XINHUA/AFP via Getty Images)
From left: Chinese top communist leaders Lin Piao (1907-71), minister of defense and supporter of the Cultural revolution, Zhu Enlai (1898-1975), Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China from its inception in 1949 until his death, and (second row, from L), Kang Cheng and Chiang Ching, wave a copies of Mao's Little Red Book" as they celebrate Mao's theories in May1967 during a meeting in Beijing. Mao launched in 1966 the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution", directed against those CCP "party leaders taking the capitalist road". Mao's shock troops were to be the Red Guards, principally middle-school and university students who were to draw inspiration from Mao himself-now the supreme authority in all matters. They were to be guided by "Cultural Revolution Group" of the Central Committee directed by Mao's third wife Jiang Qing. CHINA OUT (Photo by XINHUA / AFP) (Photo by -/XINHUA/AFP via Getty Images)
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