Mao's "May 16 Directive" also stressed particularly that "characters like Khrushchev are sleeping in our midst." The campaign was intended to overthrow the "revisionist elements" lurking in the ranks of the Party and government.
「五一六通知」也特別突出地強調，「赫魯雪夫那樣的人物，正睡在我們身旁」，運動就是要打倒這批混進黨裡、政府裡的「修正主義份子」。