LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado

Lei Feng had reportedly written: БЂњLike spring, I treat my comrades warmly БЂ¦ And to class enemies, I am cruel and ruthless like harsh winter.БЂ«Hatred was dressed up as something necessary if one loved the people. As a particular hate figure, Mao built up Khrushchev, on the grounds that he practiced БЂњrevisionism.БЂ«The Chinese press was flooded with polemics demonizing the Soviet leader, which the population was force-fed at weekly indoctrination sessions. It was thus drilled into peopleБЂ™s minds that Khrushchev and other БЂњrevisionistsБЂ«were villains (like murderers in a normal society). Eventually, the other shoe would drop: Mao would condemn Liu Shao-chi as БЂњChinaБЂ™s Khrushchev,БЂ«and disobedient Party officials as БЂњrevisionists.БЂ«The first time Mao raised the specter of a Chinese Khrushchev was to his top echelon on 8 June 1964. Liu knew that Mao was driving at him, and that the tornado was about to strike. His options were limited. All he could do was try to entrench his own position to make it harder for Mao to get him ...»