Word: maoists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese troops that seized Tibet in 1951 and who later directed the invasion of India, declared martial law and sat back to await the arrival of three army divisions said to have been dispatched from China proper to "crush the revisionists." Radio Moscow reported last week that anti-Maoist army units had seized "nearly full control" of Inner Mongolia, and wall posters in Peking confirmed that a titanic struggle between army and Red Guards was rocking the province. Further Chinese army uprisings were reported in Western and Central China...
...were many more who found their first taste of power too heady to listen to Chou's orders. Since the Cultural Revolution began, complained the New China News Agency, "wrong tendencies have emerged in the revolutionary ranks"-specifically because, once they have taken power, too many of the Maoist rebels start behaving exactly like those they have replaced...
...struggle, Mao's decision to employ it was an admission that he no longer has enough influence across China to be sure of winning by political means. The Liberation Army Daily's announcement in response to a call from Mao said as much: "Even though they [the Maoists] may be just a minority temporarily, we must support them without the slightest hesitation." The Maoists, in fact, have been a minority all along in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose excesses are opposed by a majority of Communist Party officials, bureaucrats, local and provincial commissars and apparatchiks, factory managers...
...occurred right in the epicenter of world Communism, Moscow's Red Square. There, 69 Chinese students, en route home from European universities to join the Red Guards, stopped off to place a wreath on Stalin's grave, reading from their little red Mao-think books and singing Maoist hymns. The two onetime allies gave their own versions of what happened next. Said the Chinese: "A large number of Soviet troops, policemen and plainclothesmen attacked them from all sides and beat them up. More than 30 were injured, and more than ten of them were struck down. Four...
...instructions Lin gave regularly to army cadres. If Mao and Lin weren't directly collaborating on the transformation of the Army, Mao at least knew he had a kindred spirit in Lin. The Defense Minister could be trusted, Mao apparently thought, to build the organization that would stand by Maoist principles in an emergency...