Mao Zedong's wife #JiangQing was sentenced to death #OnThisDay in 1981 for the crimes she committed & ordered during the #CulturalRevolution; sadly, real democratization didn't follow & #XiJinping is just as bad if not worse...

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Mao Zedong with his wife Jiang Qing in Yan’an, 1939.

#Mao #MaoZedong #JiangQing #China #ChineseCommunistParty #PeoplesRepublicofChina #Communist #Communists #CommunistParty #Socialism #Communism

#JiangQing was sentenced to death #OnThisDay in 1981 but #China's supreme court commuted the death sentence to life in prison in 1983; #MaoZedong's widow was found dead in prison in 1991 in an apparent suicide — a bitter & very final end to the #CulturalRevolution...
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A Chinese book by Chinese writer Zhu Zhongli about a Chinese woman

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#biography
#JiangQing
#ZhuZhongli