The Chinese Communist Party’s Dark History · Full chronicle and history

On October 30, the U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP released a video exposing Mao Zedong as a CCP dictator whose policies caused one of the deadliest famines in history.

On October 30, French MP and presidential candidate François Ruffin, in an interview with BFMTV/RMC, criticized the influence of Chinese capitalism and nationalism while discussing the Mbappé controversy. He explicitly stated that Mao Zedong was a dictator who established authoritarian rule, and the deaths of millions of Chinese people caused by his rule cannot be excused.

French football star Kylian Mbappé called Mao Zedong a dictator, stating that he caused tens of millions of deaths and that his regime was totalitarian in nature. French public opinion views this as a statement of fact rather than a personal opinion.

[Follow-up · October 28, 2026] On the evening of October 28, Marine Tondelier, National Secretary of the French Green Party, posted on X, stating that Mbappé's characterization of Mao Zedong as a dictator is historically grounded, and criticized France's repeated submission to China's economic pressure as a sign of weakness.

In 1999, under Li Hongzhi's direction, Falun Gong leaders across China coordinated via email to launch a mass siege of Zhongnanhai, prompting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to tighten internet controls.

On September 21, 1998, television networks broadcast footage of President Bill Clinton testifying before a federal grand jury, addressing his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and defending his denial of the affair.

The Sixth Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party adopted the Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, repudiating the Cultural Revolution and distinguishing Mao Zedong's later errors from Mao Zedong Thought.

In 1981, a CCP Central Committee plenary session passed the Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party, completely negating the Cultural Revolution, but the two slogans at Xinhua Gate — "Long live the great Chinese Communist Party" and "Long live the invincible Mao Zedong Thought" — were not removed.

In October 1976, the operation to arrest the Gang of Four inside Zhongnanhai was carried out by the Central Guard Regiment (Unit 8341), with Zhang Yaoci leading dozens of guard soldiers to carry it out; at the time Wang Dongxing concurrently served as director of the CCP Central Committee General Office and head of the Guard Bureau.

Lin Biao, the successor handpicked by Mao Zedong, was accused of staging a coup and died in 1971 in a plane crash shrouded in mystery while flying to Moscow.

During the Cultural Revolution, Hu Jingzhi, Hu Jintao's father who was far away in Taizhou, was dragged out and denounced in the movement, framed on charges of embezzling funds from a cooperative shop, and ultimately died in depression.

Because the 10th Panchen Lama cooperated with the CCP in negotiations to seek benefits for Tibetans, he was placed under house arrest and denounced in struggle sessions from 1963 to 1977. After the Cultural Revolution ended, he was rehabilitated, and from then on always served as a buffering force between the central authorities and the Tibetan region.

In 1959, Peng Dehuai was labeled anti-party by Mao Zedong for echoing Khrushchev's criticism of the Great Leap Forward and the People's Communes, ending his political life on the spot.

In the 1956 joint state-private ownership, the tea shop run by Hu Jintao's father Hu Jingzhi in Taizhou was merged into a cooperative store. Hu Jingzhi went from being a small boss to a salaried clerk, and was labeled as being of bourgeois origin.

In 1921, Lenin dispatched Bolshevik agents to Shanghai to assist in founding the Chinese Communist Party.

The Comintern dispatched Kinski to China, assisting Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao in founding the Chinese Communist Party.

Yuan Shikai died in 1916, and his attempt to declare himself emperor ended with him; subsequently, China entered the Warlord Era.