The highest-ranking Soviet Bloc intelligence defector, Lt.
He died nearly four days later, at 00:10 on September 9, 1976, at the age of 82.
In 1955, Mao launched the , and in 1957 he launched the , in which at least 550,000 people, mostly intellectuals and dissidents, were persecuted.
The famine spread to Shaoshan, where starving peasants seized his father's grain.