Posted on 02/11/2024 5:18:22 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
China has been clamping down on official malfeasance lately, but corruption trials have a long and storied vintage in the realm.
The very oldest casket in the cellar has stamped upon it this date in 1952, when Maoist China carried out its first corruption executions.“Faithful and unyielding” during wartime, Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan exploited their resulting positions of authority to plunder economic development money.
Theirs was the signal case in an anti-corruption “campaign against three evils” that ended late in 1952, with the announcement that 196,000 party members and cadres had been convicted of something. (Cited here.)...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
I’m surprised they didn’t bring out the guillotines.
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