Defeating the CCPs Opponents Flashcards
What did the CCP launch in March 1950?
The “Campaign to Suppress Counter-revolutionaries”
When was the “Three Antis” campaign launched?
August 1951
When was the “Five Antis” campaign launched?
February 1952
What did the “Three Antis” and “Five Antis” campaigns do?
Targeted opponents with intimidation, imprisonment, execution
Greatly enhanced maps control, effectively prevented anyone from challenging him
What was the Three Antis campaign designed to do? (1951)
“big clean-up throughout the Party”
Directed against corruption, waste, obstructionist bureaucracy
Where did the “Three Antis” campaign have some public support?
Those who believed the official claims that it was aimed at ending Party corruption.
What did the “Three Antis” campaign actually do?
Removed opponents of the Communists. 💢
People found their friends and family members disappeared forever 👤
What did the party encourage during the “Three Antis” campaign?
Ordinary Chinese citizens to become involved in political activities:🗣
- rallies organised to denounce “counter-revolutionaries”🏃🏾♀️
- victims subjected to public “struggle meetings”— force to admit guilt in front of large crowds demanding retribution 👂🏼👂🏼👂🏼
What were the “Five Antis”?
(CCP also used mass campaigns to remove possible opponents and seize CONTROL over ECONOMIC assets)
1) bribery 😏
2) tax evasion 😱🏃🏻♂️
3) theft of state property 🏨
4) cheating on government contracts 📜
5) stealing state economic information 📈
Who was targeted under the “Five Antis” campaign?
Bourgeoise 🕴🏻🍾
Private business owners 💼💰
What were “tiger beaters”?
What did they do?
Selected employees of a firm
Organised by Party cadres into a team of activists
Ordered to gather incriminating evidence against former Managers, Bosses 🔍
Intimidated “capitalist tigers”: tortured them until they were dragged to a ‘struggle meeting’ and forced to confess their crimes ⚔️⛓🐅
Many “capitalist tigers” committed suicide to avoid being denounced 🙅🏿♂️
How successful were the “Three Antis” and the “Five Antis” campaigns?
Very successful. ✅
Businessmen found guilty were forced to pay heavy fines ❌
Had to sell their stock to the state in order to pay them 🧟♂️
——> created Joint Public-Private enterprises 🌐💹⚜️
——> The Party sent cadres into the companies to take on leading management roles (enhanced their control)✊🏼
What happened to the bandit gangs that had made travel across China so dangerous?
The PLA were used by the CCP to attack them. 💂🏽♂️
(Organised crime gangs) like the TRIADS— plagued Chinese people for generations:
Crushing them was popular. 🧞♀️🕵🏽♂️
THOUSANDS of bandits and criminals were killed:
The PLA intimidated their enemies and humiliated their families— charging parents for bullets 🔫🔫🔫
What did the communists know when they came to power, regarding Chinese territory?
They had to establish control over ALL of it to make it safe from a) foreign interference b) rival ideologies
Why was Tibet a threat?
What did the communists do?
Different belief system: Buddhism
Different leader held loyalty: Dalai Lama
(PLA attacked,)
Buddhist_ traditions were banned,
Dalai Lama_ forced to flee
