Hop Shui points out that there are no double-voters in Communism. Everyone gets one vote.
The East is Red,
The sun rises,
China produced a Mao Zedong,
He seeks happiness for the people,
He is the People's great savior.
After the millions of deaths and wholesale economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward, the normally ultra-cautious Liu Shaoqi outsmarted Mao in front of no less than 7000 party delegates and cadres.
The 7000 participants were there to have a rational discussion about the tragedy, but it was made clear to them that criticism was not welcome.
Towards the end of the days-long conference, Liu Shaoqi was supposed to make a speech praising Mao to high heaven. Instead, Liu laid into Mao's policies. "People do not have enough food, clothes, or other essentials," he said; "agricultural output, far from rising in 1959, 1960 and 1961, dropped, not a little, but tremendously... there is not only no Great Leap Forward, but a great deal of falling backward." Liu's speech brought a torrential response from his audience, who could hardly wait to raise their voices.
Inwardly, Mao was black with rage, but held his fire as Liu clearly had the support of the 7000 participants.
Lin Biao stepped on the podium, ans saved Mao's bacon by going on with the usual high praise of the leader.
Being forced by Liu Shaoqi's strategy to change the party's policies was Mao's biggest setback since he came into power. He had been given the thumbs-down by virtually all of the stratum that ran the country. From this moment, Mao nurtured a volcanic hated for Liu and the officials who hahd attended the conference. He was out for revenge. For this reason, a few years later, he launched his gerat purge, the Cultural Revolution, in which Liu and most of the officials in that hall were to be put through hell.
As Mme Mao spelt out, Mao had "choked back this grievance at the Conference of the Seven Thousand, and was only able to avenge it in the CUltural Revolution." Of course Mao was not just in quest of revenge. I was obvious to him that this set of officials was not prepared to run the country the way he wanted. He would purge them all, and install new enforcers.
Student Hop Shui dutifully calligraphed the following on a big character poster:[/i]
VOTE COUNT
Twomz: 5
(mystery meat of doom, Glork, chamber, Thok, Unwritten)
Y: 2
(LML, BabyJesus)
SOS:
1 (Shamrock)
mystery meat of doom: 1
(Fritzler)
Shamrock: 1
(VisMaior)
thedocsalive: 1
(Pug89)
Glork: 1
(Bacde)
Fritzler: 1
(feuerdrache)
The Unwritten: 1
(Pooky)
Yosarian2: 1
(Tamuz)
Pug89: 1
(Yosarian2)
igota75: 1
(CES, the docsalive)
28 alive... 15 mouthfuls of dirt and we have a lynch...
. Welcome to the game Igota. Another person w/ a post restriction 
. *sigh*
