Hua Guofeng

2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (1921-2008) · China · Politicians · Died at 87

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He took the throne after Mao died, arrested the Gang of Four within a month, and held every lever of power in China at once - party chairman, premier, military chief. Then Deng Xiaoping quietly dismantled him, and he spent the next three decades as a living ghost in the party, insisting Mao had been right all along.

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2008Died20 August 20081977“During Chairman Mao’s lifetime, we united under his banner and fought victorious battles.”In their wordsContinue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts)Read the whole statement

“The people’s democratic dictatorship led by the proletariat thus established was in essence the dictatorship of the proletariat.”In their wordsContinue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts)Read the whole statement

“In a word, the revolutionary committees elected must be good so that the people will rejoice and support them and feel encouraged when the lists of the members are announced.”In their words23 October 1977Speech at the Fourth Session of the Standing Committe of the Fourth National People's Congress (23 October 1977) (excerpts)Read the whole statement

1976“Chairman Mao Tse-tung was the greatest Marxist of the contemporary era.”In their words18 September 1976Memorial speech At Mass Memorial Meeting for Great Leader and Teacher Chairman Mao Tse-tung (18 September 1976) (excerpts)Read the whole statement

“We are determined to accomplish the sacred cause of liberating Taiwan and reunifying our motherland.”In their words18 September 1976Memorial speech At Mass Memorial Meeting for Great Leader and Teacher Chairman Mao Tse-tung (18 September 1976) (excerpts)Read the whole statement

1956“China completed in the main the socialist transformation of the ownership of the means of production in 1956.”In their wordsContinue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts)Read the whole statement

1921Born16 February 1921

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Hua Guofeng & Nicolae Ceaușescu, 1978

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During Chairman Mao’s lifetime, we united under his banner and fought victorious battles.
1977, Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts), Own words
Marxism-Leninism holds that the completion of the democratic revolution opens the door to the socialist revolution.
1977, Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts), Own words
The people’s democratic dictatorship led by the proletariat thus established was in essence the dictatorship of the proletariat.
1977, Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts), Own words

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About this person

Born Su Zhu in Jiaocheng, he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938 and fought as a guerrilla through the war years. In 1948 he became party secretary of Xiangtan in Hunan - a posting that included Shaoshan, Mao's birthplace - and rose through provincial administration until the Cultural Revolution pushed him to Hunan's top post and then the national stage: Ministry of Public Security in 1973, vice premier in 1975. When Zhou Enlai died in January 1976, Mao made Hua premier and first vice chairman, the designated heir. A month after Mao's death in October 1976, Hua arrested the Gang of Four with the help of Mao's security chief Wang Dongxing, then took the party chairmanship and command of the military - the only leader to hold all three pinnacles at once. He ended the Cultural Revolution's ideological convulsions but clung to the command economy and the Maoist line, and between December 1978 and June 1981 Deng Xiaoping and his circle forced him out of real power, leaving him with hollow titles and then nothing but a Central Committee seat until 2002. He faded into silence, a correct Maoist to the end.

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