Word: ultraleftists
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Soviet "revisionist" in 1967 during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Another candidate was Air Force Commander Wu Fahsien, a Politburo member who is on the outs with moderates because of his association with the wildest of the Red Guard units during the Cultural Revolution. As an ultraleftist, of course, Wu would hardly expect a warm welcome from as revisionist a country as the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, the official People's Daily added support to the defector theory last week with an article attacking unnamed people who "turned their coats...