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At the beginning of October 1976, the "Gang of Four", a once powerful and arrogant group, was completely smashed. After Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan and others and their backbone gangs in Beijing were isolated and examined, the decade-long "revolution" came to an end.
In order to completely liquidate the crimes of the "Gang of Four", the Supreme People's Court set up a special court between November 1980 and January 1981 and filed a case against them.
At the time of the trial of the "Gang of Four", most people advocated a heavy sentence, or even capital punishment, for one of the main culprits. The Politburo held a special meeting to discuss the issue of sentencing.
*The identity is special, and the handling needs to be cautious. However, at the meeting, many people strongly advocated the imposition of the death penalty, and even reached an agreement at one point. According to the principle of "the minority obeys the majority", ** seems to face the fate of the death penalty.
However, ** stood up and expressed his opposition to the death penalty for **, and succeeded in convincing everyone. In the end, ** was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, which was later commuted to life imprisonment, and he was released on medical parole on May 4, 1984.
So, in general, the time in prison is not long. Her ending is related to the fact that ** insisted on not sentencing her to death. So, why not agree to the death penalty?
And on what grounds did he convince everyone?
*, formerly known as **Feng, was born in Qingpu, Jiangsu Province in 1905, lost his parents at an early age and was raised by his uncle. In 1919, at the age of 14, he dropped out of school due to family difficulties and began his apprenticeship with the help of relatives and friends.
In the same year, ** was deeply influenced by patriotic youth during the May Day Movement, and actively participated in the revolution, participating in strikes and demonstrations. Soon after, he joined the Communist Party of China and began to engage in party activities as a labor organizer.
* Not only strong work ability, leadership and organizational ability is also very strong, he has a strong party spirit and principle, under the leadership of the party has done a lot of fruitful work.
In 1930 and 1931, he was also elected as an alternate member and a member of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, becoming one of the important leaders of the party.
* Since 1944, when he became deputy director of the Northwest Office of Finance and Economics and director of the Political Department, his focus has always been on the economy. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the People's Councilor, Vice Premier of the Government Council, and Director of the Financial and Economic Committee, responsible for presiding over the economic work of the whole country.
Since he took charge of the national economic work, the country's financial prices have been stabilized, the problem of hyperinflation left over by the Kuomintang has been effectively resolved, and the national economy has also been greatly restored.
In 1954, he served as the vice premier, and also served as the minister of commerce and the director of the State Capital Construction Commission. But after the "ten-year revolution" began, he was also shocked and sent to a chemical and petroleum machinery factory in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
In 1972, he returned to Beijing to participate in the work of the business group, and in 1975 he was elected vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fourth National People's Congress.
In the process of crushing the "Gang of Four", he once said to Marshal ***: "This struggle is inevitable". However, after smashing the "Gang of Four", ** strongly advocated not to sentence ** to death, why is this?
* Knowing that the struggle within the party cannot be rashly opened, he thinks in the long run, and is worried that once this start, future generations will follow suit, which is not conducive to the unity and development of the party. Therefore, he resolutely opposed writing the death sentence against ** and others in the minutes of the meeting, and recommended that the death sentence be imposed with a two-year reprieve, and then the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
*'s recommendations were accepted by the majority of the people and turned out to be correct, with good effects both at home and abroad. This not only reflects the farsightedness and foresight of a proletarian revolutionary and statesman, but also safeguards the overall situation of unity and development within the party.
In addition, the handling of Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen was not directly punished with capital punishment.