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Lin Biao
Lin Biao was a Chinese military commander and politician, ranked third among the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China. Pivotal to the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, he commanded the Liaoshen and Pingjin campaigns and led the People's Liberation Army into Beijing. Minister of National Defense from 1959, he directed the compilation of the Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, the Little Red Book, and helped build Mao Zedong's cult of personality; in 1966 he was designated Mao's sole successor. He died in 1971 when his aircraft crashed near Öndörkhaan, Mongolia, in circumstances that remain disputed, and was posthumously condemned as a traitor.
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