Ep. 167 | Zhou Enlai (Part 7)
The China History Podcast
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Mao's Zhongfai
Mao was able to get around the system by issuing these central directives or Zhongfai Zhong means center fai. Mao used Yang Qing to get rid of pung-chan and Wuhan and for Looray Qing Lin Biao used his wife Yequn now Jiang Qing gets all the glory of being the most insidious bloodthirsty character of the cultural revolution but Lin Biao's wifeYequn was a very close second she had a colonel's rank in the military but her husband was the defense minister so she probably didn't have to work too hard to achieve that high ranking. Joe got called in to lead him and later many others to the executioners ground
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