T. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

After the economy recovered in 1965 Mao again started to steer the country towards the revolutionary path and began the "Cultural Revolution". During this chaos a cult of Mao worship began engineered by Lin Biao the designated heir by Mao. Liu Shaoqi, one of the original "Committee of Five" died early in the Cultural Revolution, hounded and finally fed glucose in a hospital to exacerbate his diabetes. Lin Biao accused of an overthrow plot against Mao fled in a plane to the USSR and died mysteriously in a "plane accident." Deng Xiao Ping banished to Sichuan after being paraded in a dunce cap, waited for rehabilitation. Peng Dehuai died at the hands of the young Red Guards, beaten to death. Mao instituted a list of "Eight bad types" that needed to be eradicated.