Thursday, May 1, 2014

10 Failed Conspiracies That Would Have Changed Everything

Like The Failed Attempt To Oust Mao Zedong

-  Also like Stalin—and most dictators in general—Mao was subject to his own assassination attempt. Planned by the son of Mao’s right-hand man and heir apparent, Lin Biao, Project 571 (so-called because the numbers closely resembled “armed uprising” in Chinese characters) involved a plot to kill the Chinese leader during his tour of Southern China.

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