Marshal Ye Jianying: Who Took Down the Gang of Four and Ended Mao’s Madness

Marshal Ye Jianying was the quiet survivor of Mao Zedong’s most violent political storms. While the Cultural Revolution consumed generals, ministers, and revolutionaries, Ye stayed untouched — not through power, but through silence, discipline, and flawless political instinct. And when Mao died in 1976, Ye Jianying executed one of the cleanest coups in modern history: the removal of the Gang of Four and the end of Mao’s decade of chaos.

In this episode of Dictators Files: The Dark Side of Power, we uncover Ye’s journey from the battlefields of early 20th-century China to the secret meetings, midnight alliances, and surgical strike that reshaped the entire country. Using historical research on the Cultural Revolution and the internal power struggle of 1976, this documentary reveals how a quiet marshal outsmarted the loudest radicals and rescued China from another decade of terror.

This is the untold story of Ye Jianying — the man who survived Mao’s madness and ended one of the darkest eras of Chinese history with a single, silent operation.

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