The End of the Cultural Revolution

Mao had to make sure the leftists were still around a fight against any attempts at revisionism. Mao could have let Joe have this moment but feeling how he was the great helmsman acted spitefully and sent Deng instead. The Peline Pekon nonsense went on unabated until the arrest of the gang of four. It was a last desperate, twisted political campaign used by Mao and his leftist supporters to wreak some final havoc on the nation.