Word: deviationist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese policy and leadership since the rise of the People's Republic in 1949. For example, less than a year ago many Westerners had slated Deputy Prime Minister Teng Hsiao-ping for a position flanking Mao's. Since then, Teng has been denounced as part of a "right deviationist wing (conspiring) to reverse correct verdicts" or, as the American press loosely put the charge, as a pragmatist. Meanwhile, a relative unknown, Hua Kuo-feng, has glided past Teng to become the highest-ranking official in the country, holding both the prime ministry and the vice-chairmanship of the communist party...
...continued to supervise guerrilla actions in the South while building his own reputation as one of the best organizational minds in Hanoi. During the 1960s, he prevailed over severe criticism of his Southern strategy, and eventually supervised a "purification of the ranks" during which thousands of his "deviationist" opponents were executed...
...really a political deviationist being brainwashed by Big Brother, or is he a monomaniac who only thinks he is a mathematician and only supposes he is being persecuted? Or is V. perhaps a gifted psychiatrist pretending to be a monomaniac who role-plays as a mathematician...