To: Iris7
Reminds me of long-forgotten Gao Gang, the head of pro-Soviet faction who ruled over Manchuria. He is said to have told Soviets in Moscow that he wants Manchuria to join Soviet Union as its 17th Republic. This enraged Liu Shao-qi who accompanied him during the trip to Moscow. He was so powerful that Mao couldn't touch him for a while. He eventually got rid of Gao after the Korean War. I am sure Gao Gang was also a typical Northerner.
6 posted on
05/24/2011 10:53:55 PM PDT by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Good example of Mao’s dealings with those he considered rivals or potential rivals.
Gao was the Shaanxi Soviet honcho as I recall. One of the sentimental Marxist-Leninist types, totally out of their depths with the true master of Power.
7 posted on
05/25/2011 10:31:06 PM PDT by
Iris7
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