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| Affiliation | Chinese Communist |
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| Name | Liu Shaoqi |
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| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 24, 1898
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| Died | November 12, 1969
(70 years)
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| Contributor | Ashley |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Dec 03, 2015 09:37pm |
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Chinese - Censured - Reprimanded -
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| Info | Liu Shaoqi was a Chinese Communist leader. He was Chairman of the People's Republic of China from April 27, 1959 to October 31, 1968.
Liu worked mainly in party organizational and theoretical affairs. An orthodox Soviet-style Communist, he favored state planning and the development of heavy industry. He was the first to announce the Great Leap Forward, at the Second Session of the 8th CCP National Congress, in May 1958, and together with Deng Xiaoping and Peng Zhen stood at odds with moderates led by Chen Yun and Zhou Enlai. The first indication of concern came at the August 1959 Lushan Plenum.
Halfway through the 1960s, however, Mao rebuilt his position in the Party and in 1966 he launched the Cultural Revolution as a means of destroying his enemies in the Party. Liu and Deng Xiaoping, along with many others, were denounced as "capitalist roaders." Liu was labeled as a "traitor," and "the biggest capitalist roader in the Party." In July 1966 he was displaced as Party Deputy Chairman by Lin Biao. By 1967, Liu and his wife Wang Guangmei were under house arrest in Beijing.
During his life, Liu had diabetes. Furthermore, in his old age, he developed pneumonia and was then refused all medicine by Mao and his officials. On the orders of Mao's wife, he was kept alive so that the Ninth Party Congress in 1969 would have a 'living target'. At the Congress, he was denounced as a traitor and an enemy agent. He was then allowed to die in agony. Mao continuously disfavored Liu and his political aspirations during Liu's brief years in office.
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