Dear MEL Topic
Readers,
How the
Cultural Revolution changed China forever
70% good, 30%
bad. That is how China’s paramount leader Deng Xiaoping rated the founding father,
Mao Zedong. The question is what the bad 30% was.
One of the
biggest disruptions Mao created was the Cultural Revolution, which started 50
years ago, this day. Thousands of citizens were denounced as class enemies or
counter revolutionaries, and were abused, tortured and killed over the course
of 10-year period. Many were forced into labor camps to correct their ideology or
sent to rural villages to do farming. And party officials and military generals
were not exempted. Many of them were purged and expelled from their positions.
This chaos lasted as long as 10 years until Mao died in 1976.
Why and how
such madness continued for a decade?
Enjoy reading
and learning one of the modern human-caused disasters.
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