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The Hundred Flowers campaign was set up by Mao the nature was to address mainly the educated classes and to allow them to comment on the government's policies. He and his government knew that the educated mainly disagreed with the policies, but thought that they could no longer deny that China had advanced since the Nationalist regime. However they were to be disappointed with the resulting torrent of criticism from the public, that not only disagreed on the policies but the social structure as well, after which Mao stopped this and arrested many of the people that complained.
The Hundre…