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Liu Shaoqi
Liu Shaoqi was a leading Chinese Communist and chairman (head of state) of the People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1968. With Deng Xiaoping he led the economic recovery after the Great Leap Forward, but during the Cultural Revolution he was denounced as a capitalist roader, expelled from the party and died in detention in 1969. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1980.
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