In a speech marking the Great Helmsman’s 110th birthday in late 2003, he declared Mao to be a “great proletariat revolutionary strategist and theorist.” While Deng had castigated Mao’s “leftist” errors, Hu’s hagiographic address made no mention of his manifold blunders.
的确，胡锦涛试图恢复毛泽东的光辉。2003年底在纪念伟大领袖110周年诞辰的讲话上，他宣称毛泽东是一位“伟大的无产阶级革命战略家和理论家”。邓小平批评了毛泽东的“左倾”错误，胡锦涛理想化的讲话对毛泽东的众多错误只字未提。