Stage". The Salvation Stage was the extension of the Maoist anti-Trotskyist movement and the censorship of newcomers who had come from the areas governed by the Kuomintang. The Central Social Department took control of the movement and turned it into a mass persecution in 1943. Thousands of people, especially those new members who came from areas governed by KMT, were purged, kept in custody, censored, mentally and physically tortured, and occasionally executed. Many of them were labeled as "spies of the Kuomintang" or "anti party activists". Not only were they themselves humiliated, but also their family members and relatives. The only way for them to be released from this persecution was to make confession of crimes they never committed and then turn others in. See also Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art List of campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party Cultural Revolution 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre Canidrome massacre Hundred Flowers Campaign References Further reading Wang Ming. CCP of 50 Years Orient Press 2004 Gao, Hua. (2000). How the Red Sun Rose: The Origin and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Massacres in China Campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party Maoist China 1940s in China Persecution of intellectuals