"China has announced the death of one of the members of the Gang of Four who led the Cultural Revolution that convulsed the country in the 1960s and 1970s."
My knolege on this subject is a little hazy, but i came across this link today and thought i would share the "good news";
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4533401.stm
Is it good news though? I get the feeling that many victums of this episode feel that the Gang of Four and associates/related people were never properly punished for their crimes and although their deaths are welcome, there's a feeling of dis-respect for the victums feelings themselves on the whole matter...
What do you guys think? Do you think the Gang of Four should have been punished more severely much earlier in their lives or that the situation for doing so just never came...?
Full Version: One of China's Gang of Four dies...
Just in case anyone is interested.
The ultra-leftist Red Guards, mostly youthful zealots ,was setup by the Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong AKA Chairman Mao, AKA Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, to overcome a power grab that had deprived him of political power in the mid 1960’s.
It was conduct against known and potential opposition as well as intellectuals as a purge much like that of Stalin some years earlier. It was lead by Mao wife Jiang Qing and three others one of which was the gentlemen you spoke off who actually died last month.
A month after Mao death in 1976 they were all arrested and sentenced to death but that was later commuted to life in Prison.
2 died in prison. This fellow was paroled in 1996 I think and the last was paroled in 1998 I believe. This last survivor’s whereabouts and status I believe is unknown.
The idelogocal inspiration behind the purge among the "RED Guard", beyond the power grab that had marginalized the Chairman politically, was Chairman Mao’s “little Red book” as it is popularly called.
http://www.zitantique.com/images/new_images/DSC08738.jpg
Here are some excerpts from that gentlemens mind.
http://art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html
The movie "The last Emperor" though dramatized gives at the end an excellent persepective of what this so called "cultural revolution" was like.
That is all!
The ultra-leftist Red Guards, mostly youthful zealots ,was setup by the Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong AKA Chairman Mao, AKA Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, to overcome a power grab that had deprived him of political power in the mid 1960’s.
It was conduct against known and potential opposition as well as intellectuals as a purge much like that of Stalin some years earlier. It was lead by Mao wife Jiang Qing and three others one of which was the gentlemen you spoke off who actually died last month.
A month after Mao death in 1976 they were all arrested and sentenced to death but that was later commuted to life in Prison.
2 died in prison. This fellow was paroled in 1996 I think and the last was paroled in 1998 I believe. This last survivor’s whereabouts and status I believe is unknown.
The idelogocal inspiration behind the purge among the "RED Guard", beyond the power grab that had marginalized the Chairman politically, was Chairman Mao’s “little Red book” as it is popularly called.
http://www.zitantique.com/images/new_images/DSC08738.jpg
Here are some excerpts from that gentlemens mind.
http://art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html
The movie "The last Emperor" though dramatized gives at the end an excellent persepective of what this so called "cultural revolution" was like.
That is all!
Cheers for the links 
gonna take me a while to get through all of them though!
gonna take me a while to get through all of them though!
Their death represent a time of China goes by..
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