Q: In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.
Sentence 1:It is debated amongst historians as to whether Mao 's motivations for launching the campaign were genuine or not . Sentence 2:In fact , it is possible that Mao actually originally had pure intentions , but later decided to utilize the opportunity to destroy criticism .
A:
in fact