Sufan movement
| Sufan Movement | |
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| Native name | 肃反运动 |
| Location | China |
| Date | 1955–1957 |
| Target | Counter-revolutionaries, intellectuals, former KMT officials and political opponents of Mao Zedong, attack against "bureaucraticism" and soviet sympathetic officials |
Attack type | Political repression |
| Deaths | 53,000 (Estimated) |
| Victims | 214,000 (Arrested), 18 Million (Total targeted for "investigation") |
| Perpetrators | Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong |
| Motive | Elimination of political opponents of Mao Zedong, intellectuals and foreign forces |
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The Sufan movement was a purge of perceived opponents in the People's Republic of China between 1955 and 1957. The term "sufan" is short for sùqīng àncáng de fǎngémìng fèn zǐ (simplified Chinese: 肃清暗藏的反革命分子; traditional Chinese: 肅清暗藏的反革命分子), which means "purge to eradicate hidden counterrevolutionaries"; similar campaigns had been carried out within the Chinese Communist Party as early as 1932. Mao directed that 5 percent of counter-revolutionaries were to be eliminated. During the purge, around 214,000 people were arrested and approximately 53,000 died.