Statue at Mao Maosoleum, Beijing, China
The Cultural Revolution worked. The movement launched in 1966, lasted until the 70′s. Everywhere you travel in China, you might hear something like “this was destroyed/broked/crushed during the Cultural Revolution”. The plan was to get rid of everything which could be rightist – a good excuse to start one of the greatest cults of personality in modern history.
When the so-called revolution was over, it was too late to blame it on Mao. The Gang of Four got all the responsibility, and the Chairman had already passed away.
Nowadays, Mao Zedong is the symbol to tell everybody the PCC is the one who presses the buttons. Even to satisfy your bourgeois needs, the Great Helmsman will be there, on every yuan bill. In October, it seems every tourist from the provinces pays a visit to his mausoleum. And I’ve never met a Chinese who had something to complain about him.
The infamous campaign hasn’t eliminated all the four olds, but maybe added a couple of them.
