Events of HFC

Question 1

Critism of the CPC

Question 2

Anti rightist campaign

Answer 2

• By June Mao was ready to abandon HFC
• By July he began a full-state counter attack which became known as Anti rightist campaign

Question 3

persecution

Answer 3

• 500,000 intellectuals were branded ‘rightists’ and presecuted or forced to confess
• some were sent to Laogai, some re-educated
• Many comitted suicide or shot in public

Question 4

Qouta system

Answer 4

• a qouta system was introduced Mao stated he suspected 5-10% of each local party were rightists
• Party officials took this to mean they had to persecute that amount of their local party
• anyone with a suspicous past was likely to be denounced and persecuted