1989
As a power crisis loomed, Deng Xiaoping used tanks and machine guns to suppress the student movement, blocking China's path to freedom and democracy.
1972
Deng Xiaoping again wrote to Mao Zedong, engaging in sycophantic praise and reiterating his guarantee never to reverse verdicts.
1968-06
Deng Xiaoping wrote an extremely humble self-statement, admitting he was a capitalist roader and pledging never to reverse verdicts.
1966
Deng Xiaoping was labeled the second-numbered capitalist road faction within the Party, was sent to labor reform in Jiangxi, and his son Deng Pufang was tortured by Red Guards, resulting in disability.
1959
During the Great Famine disaster, Deng Xiaoping was accused of intentionally breaking his leg while playing billiards to evade political responsibility.
1957
As General Secretary of the Secretariat of the CCP Central Committee, Deng Xiaoping was the frontline commander of the Anti-Rightist Campaign. He drafted documents and issued rigid quotas for the arrest of "rightists," leading to 550,000 intellectuals being labeled as such.
1933
In Ruijin, Jiangxi, Deng Xiaoping was labeled a Maoist for supporting Mao Zedong's line, subjected to struggle sessions and removed from his post. His wife, Jin Weiying, not only denounced him but also remarried Li Weihan, who had denounced him.
1926
To evade pursuit by French police, Deng Xiaoping made his way to Moscow, where he enrolled in Sun Yat-sen University to receive Soviet red ideology education.
1920
16-year-old Deng Xiaoping took his money to France for work-study, but after his scholarship was cut off, he could only work in a factory to make a living.
1904
Deng Xiaoping was born in a small village called Paifang in Guang'an, Sichuan. His father was a small landlord, and the family declined.