Truemors
A true great successor from China, easing China out of the paranoia and isolation that characterized the final years under Mao.
Born to a poor family in 1921, Hua became a guerrilla fighter at the age of 15, in Mao's Communist movement in the civil war against Chiang Kai-shek's ruling Nationalists.
After the 1949 revolution, he served in provincial government and party posts, reportedly catching Mao's eye as early as 1954.
He was named to the Central Committee in 1969, and party secretary of Mao's home province Hunan the following year.
He later succeeded Zhou Enlai as prime minister, before becoming party chairman on Mao's death.
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