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the correctleadershipis in chargein the socialistsystemi,t will give rehabilitationand apologyto thosewhose cases are discoveredto have been wronglyhandled,and help themto ease theirresentmentand to workagain."' Such slogansas "learningfrompast mistakes,""curing thesicknessto save thepatient,"and "unity-criticism-unitcyr"ystallize Mao's view of man. They actually support the practice of cadre re- habilitation,thushelpingtheChineseCommuniststo avoid thebloody purgesassociatedwiththeStalinistera in theSovietUnion.