Who was Lin Biao? Did he escape China?

Lin Biao (林彪) was an outstanding military leader of modern China, and he personally loyal to China and Mao. He was a senior cadre trained by Mao Zedong, and neither he nor his four subordinates Huang Yongsheng (黃永勝), Wu Fa Xian (吳法憲), Li Zuopeng (李作鵬) and Qiu Huizuo (邱會作) had the gene to betray Mao. (I don’t really believe in revisionist history)

But in his later years he had a son called Lin Liguo (林立果), who was spoiled by his wife and who became a playboy; he was lustful and loved power.

Lin Liguo did a lot of bad things. He and Deng Xiaoping’s son, Deng Pufang (鄧朴方), were behind the smash-and-grab case at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

Lin Biao had been recuperating for years after being wounded in the war and had shrapnel in his head; he needed large doses of sleeping pills to sleep, so he probably had no idea what his son was doing out there.

When Lin Liguo’s evil deeds came to light, Lin Biao’s wife and Lin Liguo took Lin Biao, who had taken sleeping pills, on a plane to the Soviet Union, which crashed in the Mongolian Republic. Lin Biao remained in a coma until he was killed in a plane crash.

If he had been sober, he might have stopped it from happening. But it has happened, so it can only be assumed.

Many of the first generation of senior CPC officials spent their youth in the war. It was not until after the founding of the People’s Republic of China that their lives settled down. As a result, they married and had sons late in life and their children were spoilt for choice.

It is a woman’s nature to discipline children. It is customary for the wives of many heads of state to work in areas such as women and children.

Mao’s wife Jiang Qing disciplined the sons of these high-ranking officials, so these people held a grudge against Jiang Qing.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, these senior officials blamed the Gang of Four for their children’s faults in order to protect them. The children of these high-ranking officials later became the “princelings”.