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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