Editing Hu Yaobang

{{Villain Infobox|name=Hu Yaobang|Image=Hu_Yaobang.jpg|fullname=Hu Yaobang|origin=Liuyang, Hunan, Republic of China|occupation=Chairman of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (1981 - 1987)<br>Secretary-General of the CCP Central Secretariat (1980 - 1982)<br>First Secretary of the Communist Youth League of China (1953 - 1978)|skills=Diplomacy<br>Manipulation|hobby=Watching military parades|goals=Reform China (succeeded)<br>Advance the goals of the Chinese Communist Party (partially succeeded)<br>Establish good relations with the US and its allies (succeeded)|type of villain=Fanatical politician|alias=Deng's left and right hands|crimes=[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Slavery]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]}}'''Hu Yaobang''' (20 November, 1915 - 15 April, 1989) was a high ranking official of the Chinese Communist Party having served as the party's chairman for 6 years from 1981 until his resignation in 1987.


== Biography ==
Hu Yaobang was born on 20 November 1915 in Hunan, he lived with a poor peasant family. He left his family to join the Chinese Communist Party at the age of 12. During the 1930s, he supported [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Zhou Enlai]] and was one of the youngest veterans from the Long March. Hu Yaobang had also befriended [[Deng Xiaoping]] during this period, in which the two would eventually play a role in reforming China later in the 20th century with Hu working under Deng. 

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Hu Yaobang became the Head of China's Communist Youth League. During the [[Cultural Revolution]], Hu Yaobang was purged twice by Mao and the Communist Party both in 1969 and in 1976. He was the number one of the "three Hu's" and was publicly humiliated (The other two Hu's are also associates of Deng Xiaoping). After the Mao's death in 1976, Hu along with Deng would eventually be rehabilitated in 1977, during the rule of [[Hua Guofeng]], although Hu opposed Hua's Two Whatevers policy. However from 1978 to 1981, Hua Guofeng's power began to wane and Deng along with Hu and their allies ([[Zhao Ziyang]] and [[Li Xiannian]]) would slowly begin taking control of China's top leadership positions.

After Hua's ousting, Hu Yaobang became the party's chairman in 1981, eventually renaming the positon to General Secretary a year later in 1982. Hu Yaobang began to reform China and started meeting non-communist world leaders just to bring them closer to China. During his rule, China's foreign relations with the US and its allies had made considerable progress. Despite his high status of holding the highest office in the both the party and the country, Hu Yaobang's rise to power was engineered by Deng which technically makes him the second most powerful man in the country as Deng Xiaoping is able to control the nation without holding any senior positions (only being the Chairman of the CMC). During his reign, Hu would try to rehabilitate many communist party members who had been persecuted during the cultural revolution, as well as becoming one of the first chinese officials to stop wearing the Mao suits. Hu Yaobang would also make controversial decisions that would alienate him from many members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and there also have been many instances where Deng does not support some of his reforms. Hu Yaobang would eventually be ousted from the leadership in January of 1987 by conservative groups for being way to liberal, party members such as Li Peng would emerge into the hierarchy following the wake of Hu's resignation.

Hu Yaobang dies from a heart attack on the 15 April, 1989 at the age of 73. Many of Hu's friends, allies, and other party members such as Deng Xiaoping, Zhao Ziyang, and Li Peng attended the memorial services, Hu's wife blamed his death on his poor treatment from within the party. But however, in the wake of his death, an uprising had started and sprung up in Tiananmen Square marking the beginning of the controversial Tiananmen Square Uprising which would eventually lead to a brutal massacre and a subsequent purge on moderates from within the party.

After the incident at Tiananmen Square, it was made illegal for anyone to mention or talk about Hu Yaobang or Zhao Ziyang, as the ban wasn't lifted until 2005 when his image was rehabilitated by the later Communist Party Chairman Hu Jintao with the party celebrating his 90th birthday in November of that year.
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