Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With their aid, Mao created the Red Guards to undercut his opponents...
...accent has indeed been on crushing. Within a week of their introduction, the Guards were on the rampage in Peking, roughing up Chinese in Western dress, changing street signs to "revolutionary" names, and humiliating Franciscan nuns. The Guards aimed not only at rooting out all foreign influence in Mao's China but also at obliterating China's own preCommunist past. Nor was that all. "We are not only stirring up a revolutionary storm in China," they cried, "we shall spread it over the whole world." As for anyone who dared to oppose the new trend, the Guards pledged...
...Soviet press. Moscow papers have produced objective, detailed and horrified reports of the way the Chinese are running a Marxist revolution. "The Red Guards beat up a worker because he happened to be in a room where they found a crack in the frame of a portrait of Mao," reported Pravda last week. "They beat people with sticks, rifle butts, chairs and electric wires. One man was tortured a whole night. When he lost consciousness, they poured cold water over him, and kept torturing him until he died." Pravda also told how Red Guards from Peking seized party headquarters...
Youth on His Side. Provincial and local party headquarters have, in fact, been a major target for Red Guard fury. Apparently Mao wanted to root out a lack of zeal at the local party level. But, according to reports from China, Mao had an even more compelling reason to call the Guards: he was in trouble...
...version has it that Mao during his recent six-month absence from public view was being urged by President Lui Shao-chi to refrain from an other Leap Forward. Mao, so the story goes, enlisted his own wife to whip up support for him. She, in turn, recruited Lin Piao to Mao's cause...