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Shortly after Mao launched the 100 flowers campaign, there was an enormous crackdown on rightists/counterrevolutionaries because the the campaign revealed "hidden enemies". Is there any historical consensus on whether or not that was the actual purpose of the campaign?

by /u/CptSnowcone in /r/AskHistorians

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