As Li Zhisui, who served as Mao's personal physician for 20 years, rightly asserts, the reason Mao so ruthlessly persecuted party leaders whose views differed from his own was that he feared they would castigate him after his death, just as Khrushchev had denounced Stalin.
正如在毛身邊侍君二十年的御醫李志綏所指證那樣，毛為什麼要那樣殘酷迫害與他政見不同的黨內領導人？就是害怕他們會像赫魯雪夫一樣，在他死後對他鞭屍。