In July 1959, during the Lushan Conference, ** was wrongly criticized and was labeled as an "anti-party group", and there were three big people who were criticized with *** at that time, two of whom were first-level cadres, and one was the first secretary of the provincial party committee.
On July 2, 1959, the enlarged meeting of the Politburo was held in Lushan, and the meeting was divided into 6 groups to discuss and further summarize the experience and lessons.
** wrote a letter to ***, in which he put forward some opinions on the "Great Leap Forward" and said a lot of sharp words, and later his letter was printed and distributed to the participants for everyone to discuss, and later *** was criticized, saying that he was right-leaning opportunist and "anti-party clique".
At that time, Huang Kecheng, then secretary of the Communist Party of China and chief of the General Staff, Zhang Wentian, then alternate member of the Politburo and vice minister, and Zhou Xiaozhou, first secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, all supported ***, and they were also criticized and criticized as "members of the anti-party collective".
Huang Kecheng is a native of Yongxin County, Hunan, during the Red Army he served as the political commissar of the 4th Division of the Red Third Army Corps, is the old subordinate of the first, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huang Kecheng served as the secretary of the provincial party committee in Hunan, and then transferred to the deputy chief of general staff and head of the logistics department of the whole army, after Su Yu was criticized, he replaced Su Yu as the chief of the general staff.
At that time, *** was the Minister of National Defense, and he was still Huang Kecheng's top boss, so his support for *** at the Lushan Conference was questioned as not simple, it was ulterior motives, he was designated as an "anti-party collective", after the Lushan Conference, Huang Kecheng was removed from all positions and was censored for a long time.
In a special decade, Huang Kecheng suffered another shock, during which he was also imprisoned, it can be said that from 1959, Huang Kecheng has been spent in a difficult environment, until December 1977, Huang Kecheng resumed work, in 1980, he was officially rehabilitated, 6 years later, Huang Kecheng died of illness at the age of 84.
Zhang Wentian is more unfortunate than Huang Kecheng, and his status in the party is higher than Huang Kecheng, Zhang Wentian as early as September 1931, was co-opted as a member of the Politburo and became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, in 1934, he was re-elected as a member of the Politburo and the secretary.
At the famous Zunyi Conference, he resolutely supported the correct proposition of the Red Army, and voted in favor of re-commanding the Red Army, and his opinions carried a lot of weight at the time, after which Zhang Wentian was elected as a member of the ** Committee, a member of the Politburo or an alternate member, but after 1959, his situation was very bad.
On July 1, 1976, Zhang Wentian died of illness in Wuxi at the age of 76, in December 1978, corrected the wrong conclusion of Zhang Wentian in the past, and then held a memorial service for him, ** eulogies for him.
Among the three people who were criticized with ***, Zhou Xiaozhou's experience was the most unfortunate, he worked as a secretary for *** during the Anti-Japanese War, and was also used as a personal representative to Xinjiang and Taiyuan to promote unity and anti-Japanese resistance, and carry out ** work, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked in Hunan for a long time.
After the Lushan Conference, Zhou Xiaozhou was removed from his post and arranged to serve as deputy secretary of the Party Committee in Dayao Commune, Liuyang County, in fact, to accept the transformation, until 1962, he was transferred to the Central South Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as vice president, in a special decade, Zhou Xiaozhou was impacted.
On December 26, 1966, Zhou Xiaozhou committed suicide in Guangzhou at the age of 54, and in February 1979, ** revoked the wrongful punishment he had given in 1959, and held a memorial service for him to rehabilitate Zhaoxue.