People of the Revolution and the USSR
Security, intelligence and policing
People’s Republic of China (state)
Marxism and communism
Clear all
- Kang Sheng 康生 Mao’s inquisitor who ran party security and intelligence from the Yan’an “rescue” campaign to the Cultural Revolution
- Luo Ruiqing 罗瑞卿 First minister of public security and chief of the general staff, purged on the eve of the Cultural Revolution as Lin Biao’s target
- Wang Dongxing 汪东兴 Mao’s bodyguard chief whose Zhongnanhai Unit 8341 arrested the Gang of Four, then pushed aside for the “two whatevers”