Video: China's Cultural Revolution, 50 years on
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In May 1966, as part of the Cultural Revolution, China's communist leader Mao Zedong declared war on bourgeois ideology. Through show trials, humiliation and mass murder, the Red Guards imposed a reign of terror in the name of Maoism. It took the death of Mao himself to end a decade of political fanaticism that claimed millions of lives. Fifty years on, the survivors remain traumatised.
From 1966 to 1976, China was gripped by a horrific form of political terror. The Cultural Revolution tore families apart and killed millions, all in the name of Maoism. Anyone who dared criticize Chairman Mao was arrested. For the majority of people in China who lived through it, the period remains taboo. Most of Mao’s atrocities remain hidden, but the father of the Cultural Revolution is still worshipped.
Mao Zedong was born in Shaoshan, a small village in the southern province of Hunan. There, he is still honored as a hero. For many, Shaoshan is not just a place of historical curiosity, but more of a place of worship and a 15-metre statue of Mao still stands there. Despite the millions of victims created during the Cultural Revolution, the Great Helmsman's official status is still not up for debate. According to the official historical review undertaken by the Communist Party, Mao Zedong was 70% right and only 30% wrong. To this day in China, this official leadership report card has not been debated.
The Cultural Revolution may have ended 40 years ago, but many people in China still feel some nostalgia towards that time, as can be seen by a visit to Panjiayuan, a Beijing antique market. Many of the symbols of those years are still on sale at the market, including the most famous one: the little Red Book. The market is full of curiosities from the Cultural Revolution showing an idyllic image of a united country, where everyone worked for the greater good. None of the propaganda found there contains any mention of the violence. On the contrary, the Cultural Revolution is often portrayed as a type of Golden Age.
The market in the heart of Beijing is supposed to celebrate the past. But today, a new face has emerged: that of Xi Jinping. The latest Helmsman of the Communist Party of China became president in 2013. Many consider him China's most powerful leader since Mao himself.
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Evil Mao distorted human nature.
Why couldn't we talk about the bad things? Do these people still think he's a saint? Come on, we are taught that Mao isn't a saint who has done wrongly in the past. Couldn't believe the gap between us and them.
Isn't a Saint is an understatement
Bra I cant watch this, only got to 5:30, gonna hug my mom when she wakes up
I thought of that too.
Thanks for posting this.
I really feel for this man.... He was young and brainwashed. He and his family were a pawn in Mao's political game and he still suffers greatly for it. I hope he finds some kind of peace. He shouldn't have turned in his mother but it is not his fault.
Yeh and same party still has power
...but they now genocide and oppress opposition..or any non han people. ( Uighurs etc)
Crazy how no one ever mentions that modern CCP controlled is a LITERAL ETHNOSTATE
He's definitely up there with Hitler and Stalin as one of the most evil men in the 20th century. He kind of disgusts me more though as at least Hitler and Stalin aren't widely celebrated today.
People never will learn it is mind numbingly mid boggling to me
At 14:44 I love the swap meet with old images of Chairman Mao. I never dreamed they had swap meets. This looks like when you go to a GoodGuys Car show and the booths that sell old car ads and movie posters. For some reason I thought that type of nostalgia was a Western thing, and that China only had wet markets as a form of informal market. The Mao poster at 14:37 I would buy in a heartbeat, because it would be the perfect dorm room decor. Also I noted at the antique market that there were pictures of Marilyn Monroe for sale as well.
I'm thankfully too young to have experienced it first hand, but when Mr. Zhang said "your shameful son" I burst into tears because at that point, I already knew exactly what must've happened.
I wonder if he keeps his pro-Party name as a punishment for himself.
"Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh, tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff....silly willy nilly old bear...."
Better times then
"Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff ....silly willy nilly old bear ...."
Gotta steal that. Please write more.
the comic nuance of this clip... a laugh came out when that Panjiayuan man answered "yes" to "do you think the Cult Rev is a democratic movement?", but so did my tears. it's an odd world to live in.
1984.
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If I was in his family, I would NOT speak to him again too. Screw him!
long live cultural revolution, long live democracy! long live working class!against CCP revisionism bureaucracy facist dictatorship!
Good god. This is about close as you get to Nineteen Eight Four in real life.
19 8 4
This is very painful to watch!
my god,do not admire him,he is a ghost
Evil Mao distorted human nature.it is wrong
¿Por que no traducen este reportaje al español?
🤔❔❓
Mr Z gang
Ok lets hear about your country America.
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Why u repent as u have already made sin by killing ur own mother.
That. Why wwe Indian say Believe in snakes but not to Chinese
god justice and karma punishment is going to get them, red guards
God's JUDGEMENT is here and will come for all who have wronged Him and humanity
If anyone would be able to understand the Chinese's complicated attitudes (nostalgia, regrets, bitterness, etc.) toward the Cultural Revolution, I'd expect it to be the French. Isn't the French Revolution, despite its horrible violence and bloodsheds, still glorified today? Aren't the Communards still honored, at least by some? To portray a monolithic government under a strong man directing every incident of terrible violence down in every Chinese village is as historically inaccurate as accusing Robespierre of personally murdering every victim of the Reign of Terror. It was a nation-wide state of anarchy, not Orwellian oppression from an omnipotent government.
Eric Li They aren’t comparable. The French Revolution was a true revolution. The cultural revolution happened after the true revolution and was a disastrous tool used by Mao to get rid of political rivals within the communist party. It was the party turning on itself and wholly destructive! A cultural revolution tries to burn ideas, it tries to re-invent history, it tries to re write history and blot out anything that isn’t it. The French Revolution didn’t try to do anything close to that. It was organized by Mao and his wife and carried out until his rivals were ousted. Isn’t it interesting that it ended the moment Mao died? Odd that. It was a manufactured crises in no way a direct outcome of the actual Chinese revolution. Mao was a wonderful war hero and a criminal world leader. He’s like Stalin.
Eric Li you didnt even exist back in that time, so wtf do you know about the Culture Revolution except for biased stories and lies? Please educate yourself more and stop with the whataboutism nonsense.
T!m3b0mb There’s so much information on the cultural revolution that only the disinterested or ideological vulnerable could ignore it. An old gentleman who worked at Zhejiang University once called it a calamity, he was old enough to have suffered under its insanity. I am very glad to not have personally suffered under such a system and knowledge should work towards foresight.
they were living in misery and pain under the Empires that were governing China specially Jaapan
if it wasn't Mao China would have been 5 different countries,
we prefer to be disintegrated
Free and Independent different nations? That would be so much better. The only real China is Taiwan.
Mao Tes Tung is the most to be admired and to be loved China's top leader by the most of Chinese people.
Mao Tes Tung is the most to be respected and to be trusted China's top leader by the world and the western world.
Serve for the peoples Heart and soul!
what did he do besides kill 60,000,000 of his own people
He is currently BURNED IN HELL. Your are sooooo stupid to worship mere mortal like youself. Mao was a curse for China. I really feel for innocent Chinese who is brainwashed to worship that EVIL MAO...
Red Salute to chairman Mao ✊
"It brought only tears, bloodshed and misery to every Chinese family". Really? The Cultural Revolution was literally the first time in China's history that ordinary peasants' and workers' children could have a decent education, for instance (primary education was massively expanded and secondary education enrollment increased sevenfold between 1966-1975). There were many problems with Mao's policies, to be sure, not least an anarchic tinge which left space for all sorts of excesses and errors, but this kind of caricature portrayal of those years as some orgy in wanton destruction and violence, is simply ludicrous.
What the hell, all of my Chinese relatives at that time in the mainland had no education, all the schools were shutdown to make room for red guard activities to make the children into bunch of fanatics. My aunt talks about this every time we go back to Shanghai.
Johan Ps There was no education in that anarchic period
Johan Ps YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL!!! WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS A TOTAL JOKE!!! YOU CERTAINLY DO NOT KNOW YOUR HISTORY!!!
I remember when my parents travel to my father home provinces in southetn china he wad shock by the crushing poverty.malNutrition. epidemic of .hepathesis .he also learn that little boy betray his father to the red guard for listening to tIwanese radio
@@richardque4952 Poverty in China was not created by Mao, but a leftover from the previous society and the vast destruction wrought by many decades of invasion and civil war. You might make the argument that Mao's policies failed to address it, but not that it was his creation.
Great leader Chairman Mao! We miss you, and we love you!!
you need to learn chinese history. a murderous time in history
Don't waste your soul adoring that evil Mao kid...
How lost are you full of evil and wickedness!
@senssine kong really? Sounds like projection to me! Hope you enjoyed the video and being exposed as hopefully just brainwashed because the alternative I already mentioned!
TOLD BY AMERICANS HMMMM I don´t give a credit
This person isn’t even American lmfao.