Rise of ignorant young men.

In order to be able to achieve these generational conflicts, it is a very fascinating thought to use all the young to make them deliberately ignorant, and launch them against their fathers and mothers. There was encouragement not to study, encouragement to investigate anybody over 45.

For instance, in the Health Ministry which came under the control of the 'gang of four', a barefoot doctor of 21 was to be Vice-Minister. In the Education Ministry the Minister on the list which the 'gang of four' prepared was to be Chang Tieh-sheng, a young man of 29 who was unable to answer his examination questions. The Cultural Ministry and the mass media were particularly under their tender care and you know the result.

I give you some examples which happened in my province. My province, as I told you, has been badly hit by them. A surgeon who was doing an operation and young hooligans trained so tenderly by the 'gang of four' came to tell him that he must stop the operation in order to be struggled against politically. When he refused to interrupt the operation, he was called an unrepentant capitalist roader.

Another example concerns cancer. There was a need for some more good equipment for treating cancer. The doctor who dared to say that he needed these new machineries from abroad was told he was selling the country down the drain.

This kind of extraordinary nonsense, which went on particularly during the last year, developed rather suddenly. If you really investigate throughout the last ten years, it was really the last two to three years that were the worst.