From the state president down to ordinary citizens, being labeled a "counterrevolutionary" would at the very least bring one public humiliation and criticism, and at worst one might be killed and one's family's and friends 'lives blighted.
上至國家主席、下至市井小民，一項「反革命」帽子下來，輕則挨批鬥，重則家破人亡，株連無數。