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Anonymous
Oct 08, 2011 09:48 AM

Good article, though two points deserve mention. First, Hu Yaobang was General Secretary of the CCP, not "premier." Moreover, Hu Yaobang was not actually "disgraced," but actually purged by hard-line Leninist authoritarians like Deng Xiaoping for not having cracked down hard on student demonstrators in 1986, as Deng thought Hu should have. To be purged by an anti-democratic and despotic Leninist oligarchy like the CCP elite is actually an honor, not a disgrace.