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• a variation of Lin Biao.

Lin Piao

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/ ˈlɪn ˈpjaʊ /

noun

1. 1908–71, Chinese Communist general and statesman. He became minister of defence (1959) and second in rank to Mao Tse-tung (1966). He fell from grace and is reported to have died in an air crash while attempting to flee to the Soviet Union

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Lin Piao

The famed Little Red Book of Mao quotations has virtually disappeared, and Mao himself has denounced the personality cult that surrounded him as a sinister trick of his late, disgraced Defense Minister Lin Piao.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peking has never publicly revealed the fate of former Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent, who mysteriously disappeared last summer.

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While other China-based correspondents hesitated, he reported flatly that Lin Piao had been picked as Mao's successor.

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Then the campaign was broadened by linking Confucius to former Defense Minister Lin Piao who died after an anti-Mao coup attempt in 1971.

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Mao's version of the downfall of Lin Piao to her admiration for Garbo and Chaplin.

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