Lin Piao
Britishnoun
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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.
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Significantly, he went to Peking just after former Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow Mao in 1971.
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Defense Minister Lin Piao, who had been formally named Mao's successor, allegedly attempted to assassinate Mao and take supreme power for himself.
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So far, nobody knows who, beyond the ghosts of Lin Piao and Confucius, are the real targets of the new campaign.
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Wang has also been credited with bringing down Defense Minister Lin Piao in 1971.
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