May Sixteenth elements

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title: May Sixteenth elements
text: May Sixteenth elements (五一六分子) were named after the so-called May Sixteenth Army Corps, ultra-left Red Guards in Beijing during the early years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) who targeted Zhou Enlai with the backing of Jiang Qing. The name came from a May 16, 1966 notice (五一六通知) which Chen Boda wrote the initial draft of, and which Mao Zedong substantially revised. However, Mao was concerned with its radicalism, so in late 1967 the group was outlawed on conspiracy and anarchism charges,
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description: Ultra-left group during the Cultural Revolution
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