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TIL Xi Jinping's dad, Xi Zhongxun, was the only high ranking CCP member who defended, albeit unsucessfully, massively popular liberal reformist Hu Yaobang from being removed from office by Deng Xiaoping. Hu's purge and death years later sparked the Tiananmen Square protests.

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