Although he had no intention of challenging party authority, Hu Feng ` s action reflected a wide range of intellectuals and artists ` grievances and was taken as evidence of the earliest cleavage between the party and intellectuals after the formation of the PRC . Hu Feng was arrested in July 1955, and the campaign against him broadened into a campaign to reeducate the masses and reinforce the official line.
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The Front also was responsible for conducting " activities of friendship, " which were aimed at improving the climate for close cooperation with " the Vietnamese people and the Vietnamese army and experts . " Another major function of the front was to reeducate Buddhist monks so that they would " discard the narrow-minded views of dividing themselves into groups and factions " and would participate more actively in the revolutionary endeavors of the Salvation Front.
