Mao and the Cultural Revolution

Mao's role during the cultural revolution was to firstly carry out Mao's orders but at the same time don't allow the country to go down the toilet. He had to wave that little red book as much as everyone else but he also had to keep a lid on the worst excesses there are many stories of people he saved i'll get to a few in a moment. Most of the time he had to remain silent and stone-faced when some of the worst atrocities were committed. His wife Jiang Qing led the attack over the past 30 years going back to the Yanan period. She went after Beijing vice mayor and Ming dynasty expert Wuhan by pointing to the play he wrote