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Chinese politician and general. He joined the
Communists 1927, became a commander of Mao
Zedong's Red Army, and led the Northeast
People's Liberation Army in the civil war
after 1945. He became defence minister 1959,
and as vice chairman of the party in 1969 he
was expected to be Mao's successor. But in
1972 the government announced that Lin had
been killed in an aeroplane crash in Mongolia
17 Sept 1971 while fleeing to the USSR
following an abortive coup attempt.