Red China
Red - Color of Communism
Chairman Mao has defined our future as an armed revolutionary youth organization...So if Chairman Mao is our Red-Commander-in-Chief and we are his Red soldiers, who can stop us? First we will make China red from inside out and then we will help the working people of other countries make the world red...and then the whole universe." -A Red Guard Leader
The more books you read, the more stupid you become." -Mao Zedong Thought Saying
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China was now so 'red' and loyal to Mao, that even friends and family denounced each other:
...My father is really the No. 1 Party person in authority taking the capitalist road. For more than twenty years, he has all the time opposed Chairman Mao and Mao's Thought, carrying out not socialism, but capitalism." -Liu Tau, Liu Shaoqi's daughter,
attacks her father for pursuing the Capitalist Road, (1966) |
"...the political pressure was so great that people just cracked under the pressure. Another reason is people saw opportunistic ways to settle private scores..."
Video: Zhang Hongbing regretting his mother's death
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...One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the...demand that people ...denounce each other during political campaigns. This practice had a profoundly destructive effect on human relationships. Husbands and wives became guarded with each other, and parents were alienated from their children. The practice inhibited all forms of human contact, so that people no longer wanted to have friends. It also encouraged secretiveness and hypocrisy. To protect himself, a man had to keep his thoughts to himself. When he was compelled to speak, often lying was the only way to protect himself and his family...” -Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai
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