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GCSE History · key term
The campaign launched in June 1957 to punish people accused of opposing communist rule, including many who had criticised the Party during the Hundred Flowers campaign.
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Paper 3
Revise: Hundred Flowers CampaignThe resulting Anti-Rightist purge removed and punished people accused of political disloyalty. Punishments varied: people could lose their jobs or be demoted, be sent to labour camps or the countryside for forced labour, or face execution. Being labelled a rightist did not necessarily mean being arrested.
Keep the sequence clear: encouragement in 1956–57, increasingly open criticism in May–June 1957, then the Anti-Rightist purge from June 1957.
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