Campaigns against corruption Flashcards
Why did Mao introduce the Campaigns?
- To establish a one party state (politicial parties banned 1952)
- Destroy bourgouise and create one class (peasents)
- obtain controll over buissnes
- Extend CCP power across China,
- destroy intellectuals and indipendant thought
- Denounce capitalists and GMD, create anti Capitalist/GMD sentiment
Aid Korea resist America
Who were the targets:
* American figures like Truman and general MacArthur were shown as bloody ghouls
* Mao potrayed Americand and ‘savages’ and ‘murderers’ helping to incite patriotism for China
* Gave Mao and excuse to persecute opponents under the guise of treason
What happend to them:
* The peoples daily published lists of political criminals alongside gruesome details of their punishment
* In 1951, the government documented 135,000 official executions and 800,000 counter-revolutionary executions.
What were the consquences:
* increased support/respect for the PLA
* Mao mpressed and gained respect from the Stalin.
The three antis campaign
The five antis campaign
Suppresing counter revolutionaries
