Chapter 40 Spring Festival masquerade ball 1964

Journalist: “In 1964 the Federation of Literary Spring Festival masquerade ball provoked you to remove the Minister of Culture Mao Dun?

Mao: “Yes, in 1964, the Spring Festival costume ball for young people in the literary and artistic circles, by the army poet Gu Gong wrote a letter of denunciation, the demons into a group, and learn Mao, do Lei Feng incompatible, the letter of denunciation through Kang Sheng’s nephew handed Kang Sheng to me, I criticized the deviation from the moral, to launch a rectification campaign in the literary and artistic circles, removed Mao Dun Minister of Culture, told him to go to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

I transferred Lieutenant General Xiao Wangdong from the Jinan Military Region as Minister of Culture, officially from the barrel of a gun to control the pencil, Gu Gong merit, from the deputy battalion level to the deputy regiment level. But the Cultural Revolution he led the revolt against the head of the army and was imprisoned for 3 years.”