By initiating this "revolution," Mao not only destroyed those people he saw as his political enemies, but also unleashed an unprecedented wave of frenzied persecution throughout the land. According to an unpublished mainland document, during the Cultural Revolution there were over 1.3 million "abnormal deaths," i.e. deaths from various kinds of violence.
毛澤東發動這場「革命」，不僅打倒了他心目中的政敵，也在全國範圍內造成了空前的迫害狂潮，據一份未公開的大陸內部文件透露，「文革」中的「非正常死亡」即死於各種暴力的人數達一百三十餘萬人。