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Among the reasons widely cited for the Sino-Soviet split is the case of Marshal Peng Teh-huai, Red China's former Minister of Defense. As reported by Sinologist David Charles in the China Quarterly of London, the story of the marshal's fall from grace is considered generally plausible by Western experts, if perhaps questionable in some details...
...have been hurried along by unrest in the Red army. The peasant rank and file was naturally bitter at the suffering of its families in the communes. Red army officers resent the use of their men as a labor force. Because of army protests in 1959, Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai was replaced by more pliable Marshal Lin Piao, who instituted a new and supposedly chastening system of sending officers into the ranks for one month each year to wear "ordinary soldiers' uniforms and to eat, live, drill, labor and play together with fellow soldiers." Even generals undergo this...
...than Guinea; China was bidding for influence in all of Africa's disintegrating colonial empires. If Touré went away properly impressed, he could be counted on to pass the word to the leaders of Africa's other new and needy nations. Cried Peking's Mayor Peng Chen: "U.S. imperialism is the most vicious enemy of the national independence movement in Africa. Imperialism remains imperialism, just as the jackal remains a jackal." Replied Touré: "Our friend, the mayor of Peking, is absolutely right in describing imperialism as a wolf which changes its clothing as it wishes...
...downgraded Stalin now, in effect, downgraded Lenin too? Bulgarian Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, rising in his turn to hail the supreme chief, pronounced Khrushchev's speech "historic." The other satellite chieftains chimed in. But Communist China's Delegate Peng Chen was not impressed. Peking newspapers heaped scorn on "modern revisionists" who, "frightened out of their wits by the imperialists' blackmail of nuclear war, exaggerated the consequences of the destructiveness of nuclear war and begged imperialism for peace at any cost." The same newspapers noted only in a sentence that Khrushchev had also made some remarks and received...
...along with the shakeup in the civilian hierarchy went one in the army. Liu's old opponent, Marshal Peng Teh-huai, was dismissed as Defense Minister, as were two of his top aides, because they had protested the use of troops in labor battalions. Into the chief of staff's post went General Lo Jui-ching (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), bloody-minded former boss of the secret police, who could be depended upon to ferret out any more "incorrect thinking" among the military...