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Criticise traitor Lin Biao (1973)

42.25" x 20.5"
Printed in Guangdong, China
1973
G2242

彻底批判叛徒,卖国贼林彪的反革命修正主义路线

Vintage original Chinese Propaganda poster. Printed in Guangdong, 1973.

Lin Biao (1907 –1971) was a major Chinese Communist military leader who was pivotal in the communist victory in the Chinese Civil War. Lin was rewarded for his service to Mao by being named Mao's designated successor during the Cultural Revolution, from 1966 until his death.

Lin died in September 1971 when his plane crashed in Mongolia, following what appeared to be a failed coup to oust Mao. Because little inside information is available to the public on what has been dubbed as the "Lin Biao incident", the exact events preceding Lin's death have been a source of speculation ever since. Following Lin's death, he was officially condemned as a traitor by the Communist Party of China. He and Jiang Qing are still considered to be the two "major Counter-revolutionary cliques" blamed by the Communist Party for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution.