Episode 25 - CLEANSING OF THE CLASS RANKS (SEP-DEC 1968)

With the end of the Red Guard & rebel movements and the deployment of the Mao Zedong Thought Workers Propaganda Teams, the class struggle across China seems to have calmed down. The last of the revolutionary committees are elected and founded. Things seem good- but a brutal new campaign initiated by the leadership of the provincial revolutionary committees sends many former rebels to prison or to their death. Young comrades are sent to the countryside to work among the peasants, and Liu Shaoqi is finally expelled permanently from the Party.