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Sufan movement
Chinese political campaign under Mao Zedong
Sufan Movement
Native name
肃反运动
Location
China
Date
1955–1957
Target
Counter-revolutionaries, intellectuals, former KMT officials and political opponents of Mao Zedong, attack against "bureaucraticism" and soviet sympathetic officials
The Sufan movement was a purge of perceived opponents in the People's Republic of China between 1955 and 1957.[1][2][3] The term "sufan" is short for sùqīng àncáng de fǎngémìng fèn zǐ (simplified Chinese: 肃清暗藏的反革命分子; traditional Chinese: 肅清暗藏的反革命分子), which means "purge to eradicate hidden counterrevolutionaries";[4] similar campaigns had been carried out within the Chinese Communist Party as early as 1932.[5] Mao directed that 5 percent of counter-revolutionaries were to be eliminated.[6][7] During the purge, around 214,000 people were arrested and approximately 53,000 died.[8][9]
^Zhu, Zheng. "陆定一和尤金谈肃反运动". Yanhuang Chunqiu (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020. 对于这一场肃反运动的审查面,"七一指示"和"八二五指示"都做出了"大约百分之五"的规定。
^Wang, Gongbiao (2015). "日本侵略軍與中共暴政對中國人民造成傷害的比較". Yibao (议报) (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 23 June 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2020. 根據解密檔案:全國有140多萬知識分子和幹部在這場運動中遭受打擊,其中逮捕21.4萬人,槍決2.2萬人,非正常死亡5.3萬人。