Restoration of order by the PLA Flashcards
Why did Mao decide to end the violence of the Red Guards?
Worried foreign nations would attack China and seize some of its territory. The economy was also suffering
What methods were used by the PLA to restore order?
Ordered the PLA to crush Red Guards and violently re-establish the control of the central party. Mao admitted “I am the black hand” that the Red Guards protested that was seeking to suppress them.
What was the ‘Cleansing the class ranks’ campaign? How many were arrested or killed?
The CR group launched the “cleansing the class ranks” campaign and the PLA launched a massive wave of terror led by PLA Unit 8341 - Mao’s own security force.
Used surveillance, mass rallies and struggle meetings to extract confessions. 1.84 million people were arrested for allegedly being “spies”, “bad elements” or “newly emerged counter-revolutionaries” .
Corpses began to wash up on the shores of Hong Kong. Jilin, 2127 deaths and permanent injury of 3459 cadres. Eastern Hubei, more than 84,000 persecuted including many cadres, 2955 died and 765 suffered permanent disabilities. Yunnan, 6979 died by “death from enforced suicide”. Some resorted to cannibalism
When did the violent phase of the Cultural Revolution officially end?
1969
Who became Mao’s successor?
Lin Biao
