This photo triggered China's Cultural Revolution
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- Mao Zedong swimming in a river in 1966 was a big deal.
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In 1966, Mao Zedong, China’s communist leader and the founder of the People’s Republic of China, was rumored to be in failing health. The devastating policies of his Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) - which forced millions of peasants to work tirelessly on government farming communes and by manufacturing crude steel - resulted in the greatest famine known to human history, costing anywhere between 23 and 55 million lives.
Mao wanted to leave behind a powerful Communist legacy, like Marx and Lenin before him. And in order to do so, he needed to connect with the younger generation before he died. So after announcing his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, he swam across the Yangtze River. Mao had done the same swim 10 years earlier to prove his vitality, and he hoped it would work again.
His "Cultural Revolution" was a call to hunt down and eliminate his enemies, and reeducate China’s youth with the principles Maoism. Led by the fanatical Red Guards, the Cultural Revolution was a devastating 10-year period in Chinese history that didn’t end until Mao died in 1976.
Additional reading:
Embodying Maoism: The swimming craze, the Mao cult, and body politics in Communist China, 1950s-1970s, by Shuk-wah Poon
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Red-Color News Soldier, by Li Zhensheng
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yayy!! 🥳❤
You all should try to do a video on the Chinese civil war too or the February 28th incident in Taiwan.
Syria war part 2 pls
i_gRape_Babies x what does this mean? I saw you everywhere
One of my favourite CZcams series by far
my cat won't shut up about him!!!
Mine too! What's with that?
Hehe, I was thinking about how Mao sounds like "meow".
Which funnily enough I'd how you say 'cat' in Mandarin 'mao'
In Chinese “mao” literally means cat lol
@@alexiazhang8878 COINCIDENCE? I THINK NO-
Mao: I will swim for the last time. It's Mao or never.
Love the pun. I used to date the punster of Chicago. We had lots of fun. Never a dull moment. You should enter a contest.
"Mao or never"
Too funny
Good one😂
Thanks Emotional Sadness! Very cool!
U just did not
🇺🇸Start swimming jack we don't want any Chinese in this country from now on, and despite a reinforcement ban in Chinese visas because of the plague your mao unleashed upon the United States,, it is highly recommended to leave this ban in firm place after this virus crises is over because our two countries are getting increasingly closer to a full blown war- your people keep coming over with the assumption of education yet they come and take snap shots using cameras at our secret facilities- this is nothing less than espionage and a clear act of war against the United States and believe me it will not be left unanswered you can tell your mao this!!
Just one glitch: The 1976 newspaper did report Mao swam "downstream" Yangtze river. The average flow velocity is 3m/sec at Wuhan in summer. In 65 min he could have drifted 12km/7.5 miles. So "swimming" 9 miles in 65 mins is technically possible.
I can fly one mile in under 20 seconds.
I have to fly straight down though.
@@jonsong4592 I know what you mean to put through. But I work as a engineer, I don’t think it is wrong doing for you to say so.
@@jonsong4592 math checks out
It's like using glitch in a speedrun, so at least Mao is the first one to use a glitch in a speedrun
The original Chinese text is two hours and three minutes swim 15km. I can swim 4km in two hours. And 11km is downstream. And the width of the Yangtze River is also about 4km.
Who is here after watching three body problem on Netflix?
Yup!
yess
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Yess
我来了！
In Vietnam, we have a famous quote: "Every Chinese is good, until they become leaders"
. And it's still right for 3 millenniums.
Nam trian. Mao Zedong is great leader
oh hey, your country also has another chinese leader too. how's he in that tomb?
@@bilqisafridi9129 u are ok??
@@bilqisafridi9129 LOL Mao is a killing machine
@@wilsonkenway4875 USA is a killing machine. Killed 5 million in Iraq and syria. USA = terrorist state
Destroyes 3000 years of culture, kills 55 milion people,
builds a bridge
"perfectly balanced, as all things should be"
Described the culture? All the first emperor in the new dynasty will destroy the culture of the old one. You say that because you don't know the Chinese culture😂😂😂
@ashk gh the history is same😂
YEAH NOW CORONAVIRUS IS ATTACKING THEM
i can't get it how these guys are defending the destroying. It is general thing to say that happen is bad. But only if they are part of 50 Cent Army they will defend china without mind.
Also, your govt doesn't want you on here in youtube.
It is censored.
I see you're a man of culture.
Spiff to you, good sir!
My grandfather was literally running away from a gun battle and playing "dodge bullets" back in 1968 everytime when he tried to buy medicine for his daughter (my mother). Luckily he survived, albeit being denounced more than once for his background as an English teacher. My grandparents and mother were eventually sent to the countryside, but all survived (and my Mom eventually went to college), luckily.
Why did they have a problem with him being an english teacher?
@@nobodyjusnobody1554 Because English stands for capitalism.
@@nobodyjusnobody1554 bruh it was because any teachers, doctors, or basically anyone that made more money than a farmer or was an "intellectual" were considered bad. They would kidnap, beat, and humiliate them in public
@@nobodyjusnobody1554 Imaging being a Russian Teacher in the age of McCarthyism
@@nobodyjusnobody1554 Educated means you have the intellect to overthrow the government. Is easier to govern simpletons than intellectuals.
This didn't work at all. My mom was just a child when she lived through this, and had to literally go to the black market to get sufficient food. When she had a deadly infection, she had to be rushed to a hospital and was lucky to survive. When she returned to china, my grandparents (Her parents) had to give almost everything up to provide the nutrients needed to keep her healthy and alive. She has told me this story many times, and every time I feel so lucky to be in canada. My mom was very lucky, but some people weren't. So please, if anyone here is going to enforce these ideologies, think about all the times it *had* been too good to believe.
You are a warrior, thank God you can say this & not get a knock on your door.
What time period was this in exactly hunger was always a issue in my parents family but having like 5 kids really helps at least for my family.
@@cczsus6513 This was late into the Mao dynasty. My mother was the oldest of around 4-5 siblings, (Im sorry if I forget, I know I shouldn't since it is so important.) and her siblings and parents had to work very hard for her when she caught the infection. Her parents were in the worst of the period, if you would like to know.
I see...so when the time comes ill build true ai and eliminate the human leaders to place the ai as our new god and thatll ensure well have utopia
If he caused the death of millions, why is he still worshipped?
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise Pascal
That's my favorite Quote indeed.
The computer guy?
Thank god I can do that
@@manamemajeff6283 Philosopher, physicist, mathematician and more than anything else knows how to stay still
@@ayatidobhal8530You dont have to thank.. If you know how to 'be still', you will know god.
3:15 "feeling like a cultural revolution, might delete later"
"Let's eliminate the bourgeoisie! Haha just kidding! Unless...?"
@@gregormonkey 😳😳
“With great power comes great responsibility”
-Definitely not Mao
"The world is better when we remove all negatives from it"
-Probably Mao
when a person with spider power has better manners than a person that is a leader of the 2nd world superpower
Mao Zedong was a narcissistic man.
My grandparents lived through this time and my grandma told me during the famine, people were just lying down and dying from hunger on the side of the road. Many were so hungry they ate the bark of trees and plants. It was a sad time and I am grateful my grandparents survived.
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China: Destroy Old Culture, Old Ideology, Old Custom, Old Tradition
Also
China: This territory is part of ancient china.
😅😅
Hehe, good point.
Not strange since current China has more nationalism within its political ideology. They do take influences, from the republicans in that regard. Even if it’s not conscious, some part of the ideology they portray, reminds me of Taiwan during their one party period.
Hahahaha
Funny how they eventually do what they set out to eradicate - Imperialism
@@SirFaceFone you have become the very thing you swore to destory
Legends says only one man could surpass Mao's record - Kim Jong Un who could swim from London to New York in 5 Minutes, While not gasping for air.
It seems like his airbags are working out well for him
Dont forget winning all those word cups!
Edit: or was that this godly sons?
Ok
Even Elon Musk's Starship would not to be able to break that record.
hahahaha😂
Xi Jingping swims in river:
People in PRC: * *panic* *
god i hope that dont happen
Something like this happened to my dad, he wanted to go to university and had the money but Mao and the government made him work in the fields for years, finally, at the age of 21, Mao died and my dad went to university, some were less lucky tho and waited until their early 30's.
the cultural revolution is such a sad thing. so much of China's rich history was lost in the span of those ten years. important documents from different dynasties all destroyed because Mao wanted the whole country to turn to him
not only history but also many human values and virtues were gone with it
@@user-qj4tv6gc9l Says the guy with Mao in his profile pic
毛主义共产主义者 they destroyed all this rich culture but not TCM ... the one cultural thing that actually merited destruction smh
@@user-qj4tv6gc9l yeah sure, sit down please
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This is honestly what I wanna see on Vox every time. Informative historical lessons be it from Asia, Africa, Europe or the Americas. Both the worst and most celebrated aspects. Much love.
WHERE IS THE AUSTRALIA!??
where is the oceania
Make Asean's history too. Literally, China work on natives far more worst than the American's
Not really that informational. They are nitpicking things for entertainment.
Some of their videos are very badly researched though. (Not talking about this video)
As a Chinese student who is learning in North America, it provided me with a new view of Chinese history. To some extent, Chinese citizens cannot see any true history events due to some special reasons. I don’t know whether foreigners can understand what I mean and these special reasons and restrictions existing in China at present.
Dangers of one party rule - no room for self-examination.
As a Chinese American, I’m so glad that my grandparents didn’t follow the elimination of culture in The Great Leap Forward, and so my parents still can read traditional Chinese, and celebrate all the the holidays and believe in the religious traditions that existed before the ccp got rid of them
如果你真的懂中国文化的话，你应该知道什么叫春秋笔法hhhh。毕竟儒家观念里很强调正统的。
甲骨文才是正道
@@weiguan4518 Hhahahaa
@@weiguan4518 nb
你好像就没搞懂什么是春秋笔法吧🤣🤣
It's disturbing how easily we can all be brain washed when we don't listen to opposing views.
Exactly the cultural revolution happening in America
@@Yafunnyco its getting scary. The only difference is we can fight back before its too late
Tell that to religious people
Same in india
some people at that time just had no choice but follow the crowd，other wise they might be “批斗”！
That was a true cult...my grandparents refuse to talk about any detail of it. As Intellectuals, they must have deep trauma.
glad it is over now, hope this could be a great lesson for all of us.
Similar to veterans of WW2 who rarely tell the horrifying experience to their grandchildren
Try read tombstone
Ye all my grandparents live through it. They never mentioned it though. Maybe it didn’t affect them as much bc they lived in tianjin
@@thewinterbear7818 what do you mean they live in Tianjing they afraid to say something? It’s looks like you are never know China this decade.
Unfortunately, I was born in this country, and I was lucky to avoid that era.
@@ethank8362 bruh, before i was born my grandparents and my parents live in China. But, because of the Culture Revolution, My Grandpa dies, because of that, my grandma go to Taiwan too. After in Taiwan, my grandma found another boyfriend and born my mom. After that my mom has a boyfriend and born me. Now i live in Indonesia, cause idk, my family visit there for some reason, probably because my mom love the country.
My grandpa was a red guard during the cultural revolution. He received local orders to march onto Shanghai to beat those “reactionaries”, “degenerates” and “punks”. He and his crew took several months to reach the city, literally on foot cuz all train rail workers were doing the same thing. What went funny was when they finally reached Shanghai, the order was dismissed because most all the dissidents were already taken care of, either by public humiliation parade or beat to death straight. He also missed the whole Gaokao thing that year so he never got a chance to improve his education standards, which was ironically not really a thing during the period. All the temples in the country he lived were either smashed, painted or burnt to pieces since they were considered as part of the “four things of the past” which was supposed to be vanished.
My granny’s family was originally in Beijing. When the relationship between USSR and China went downhill, she was issued to rural parts of the country and that was how they went.
Absurd, absolute madness, that’s all.
History has taught us:
1. It's a bad idea to put one person on the pedestal.
2. It's a bad idea to follow a leader blindly.
3. It's a bad idea to follow a crowd.
Many, if not all, of the tragic history events happened because of these 3 bad ideas.
Communism doesnt work
@@el_kks_4361 I think it could on very small scale, like tiny village size. But definitely not on Country scale.
@@Tynovalik its not a problem of scale, is one of common sense and human nature
@Krónika at the expense of also like 80 million. People dead
@Krónika That was under capitalism, none of the things mao did made China better, those after him that strayed away from communism and to authoritarian-capitalism or whatever the term is and thrived. Also china would be nothing without the west, it was mostly foreign investment (aka exploiting of their cheap labor ) that made it so wealthy.
This event is very important to he history of Chinese-American specially because majority of their grandparents and/ or parents migrated to the USA because of the revolution.
here's clowny I’m from Hong Kong and trust me there’s a lot of us, and we’re all gonna flock and stay at your house. In the meantime, we’ll also invite our Mexican friends from across the border too.
PS. I wouldn't worry about the Mexicans because we're making them watch our border using their own army
I think majority immigrant period is before and after culture revolution . Cuz during this period , people can only escape to HK or Macau
Marc Cortez after
here's clowny true, migrate somewhere else that has universal health care
I gotta say, it’s pretty cool going through your archives and finding great pieces like this
Intriguing 🧐 Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content
Mao: All of the old must be destroyed
Old people: *sweating nervously
Lol 😂
Sadly that was true. Parents (old) were criticised by their children. Mao had a slogan: 爹親娘親不如毛主席親， in english which means Mao is more intimate than our own parents. Some children even beat their parents and a lot of parents and children's relationships were destroyed after the revolution.
Old people except Mao, that is.
Nabil Massoud corona ideology
Mao:All of the old must be destroyed!
Also Mao: Is dying becouse he's too old.
Death: If You Say so!
*Who is single on valentine's day and is watching this video*
60 thousand people apparently, as of now
😂😂😂
Not me
Me
😭
That man destroyed my family's past.
Not the first hearing the story but still shocked.
When Mao goes for a swim, things are about to go dim
sum
@@Brick-Life yum yum!
dropping some bars there, brotha! :)
Me : “good night everybody, time to sleep”
CZcams “how bout learn a bit of chinese history”
Me : “bring it on”
litt meee lolll
I just did that!!! WoW!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
same hhhhhaha
I have a friend in China who deliberately avoided learning to swim because Mad Mao advocated it. That's what you call apathetic passive resistance !
Well, let’s just hope your friend start learning how to swim, you never know when you r gonna need it
@@_.JiaoZi._ Absolutely right. Even learning how to stay afloat helps. Relax, head back, feet up, remove shoes and clothes.
SB,NMSL.
I just love your documentaries, they are well researched.
So the cultural revolution is what happens when people take "Ok boomer" way too far?
Marylandbrony The interesting thing is that the youth of the red guard are the boomers of modern day china, and from what i hear they are the most ignorant and obnoxious of the boomer age group around the world. Due to the vilification of education, academics and academia stemming from this period.
Is that a challenge! Zoomers
@@patrickbyrne9971 im guessing you're a boomer
@@patrickbyrne9971 I mean I can see that happening after this corona virus incident
@Alejandro Cabrera ok boomer...
So basically Chinese in those days were as mad as present day North Koreans
Even worse
Nope.China nowadays is also a copy of North Korea.
@@ooo6845 lol china has way less censorship and is allowed to travel outside china
@@JFloatin of course, no denying that but when U look at these pictures of 1000's of Chinese adoring Mao and stupidly celebrating his swimming feat - even to this day, their behaviour reminds me of North Koreans
@@JFloatin the DPRK is currently at war, with the enemy claiming all their territory and not even recognizing their government. If the Confederates were occupying Texas, travel between the US and Confederate States might be limited. Idk maybe there is a reason you don't have many Iranians and Americans having lunch together.
I remember watching this like it was yesterday and now there’s not one utterance of it in their country.
Great narration... Subscribed, liked...
My mom has actually lived threw the famine when she was a kid
MEME MAN how rude
@@JustGOC Just telling the truth
MEME MAN people do care
Omg thanks guys I wasn't expecting you to stand up for me! Thanks for the love ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
where did she throw the famine?
5:32
He slept on his bed, why wouldn't he respawn?
that's what happens if you don't have enough money to play the pay-to-win games
It got broken
They hadnt invented minecraft yet so it wasnt possible to respawn
@@hoshghk 1:50 he did invent mincraft
bruh
This era basically destoryed my family lineage of landowners...
good
@@coolio939 mhm my great grandfather starved to death because of it...
And huge amount of ancient chinese philosophy, literature, shrines, statues destroyed just because of one fanatic
@@coolio939 "landowner bad"
@@yuhangzhang2216 good
It's definitely possible to swim 15 miles in 65 minutes downstream.
My grandparents once told me how thier life were destroyed by those fanatics. Never thought that I would able to see it myself.
Come to the west and see it happening again.
@@aliceeliot6389 from the left or right? or both?
@@Luke-id8ql The Right obviously.
@@emileblanche5868 remind me who’s tearing down statues again and rewriting history? And burning down entire cities and attacking people who disagree with them?
@@Luke-id8ql or is he talking about the Chinese government itself. Did you forget about COVID-19
When you’ve reached your peak, and now want to play god with your people...
When you dont have somebody to company you for a swim,. Just start a revolution
Hey man can you make playlist of video that you like? I watch you a lot on history video which I like so if you have some time to spare please make playlist of historical content
Fascinating!
Good video!
Many of these comments are very disturbing. No wonder history repeats itself.
China is very disturbing or haven't you noticed? If we don't stop the CCP they WILL Start WW3.
Communism is the only way
@@cL-bf2ug Sure buddy
@@cL-bf2ug so funny i forgot to laugh
jimmy wrangles but America are the one always starting wars around the world
As a young Chinese, although I have not experienced the dark ages, I feel sympathy and sorrow for the people who died unfortunately in that era.
We can do it stop Kim John un can help save North Korea
it's weird you don't specify which people who died. like, do you have no sympathy for the homeless people murdered by landlords?
@@qualityedits3083 How would he know who died?
What are you doing here bot?
The photos that the video shows are very nice
They should do a interview of those who fled the cultural revolution.
Emiliana S aka what is now Taiwan
There's supposedly more chinese artifacts in Taiwan than in China
They did such a job on "old" traditions. I've heard several times that they destroyed many ancient traditional Chinese medicine text. For a very long time they had to go to Japan to study traditional Chinese medicine.
@@Miguel-ly4bm good, May every trace of feudalism be wiped from the earth
@@Miguel-ly4bm Traditional Chinese medicine is a kind of witchcraft, that is why they are not in the system of modern medicine. There a a lot of old or uneducated people still think traditional medicine is a treasure of Chinese culture. I believe that most people educated in science in university don't trust most of it.
It's always terrifying and appalling that one person can be responsible for the deaths of so many people
@ Liana H , yeah
45-75 million deaths. Even Stalin and Hitler kills combine it will never be as big as Mao Zedong.
Think Donald Trump and the 500,000 Americans who died from COVID-19 because he chose to ignore it.
@@TheSeniorTaco wasn't like trump the first one to declare the banning of flights from china?
@@claireboyle7151 you’re comparing tens of millions deaths to less than 1 million
Beautiful❤️
Basically, a man swam, and kids began killing people for not following him.
As a Chinese, I am glad to say that quite a sizeable portion of the Chinese people have since mostly recognized the absurdity of “破四旧，立四新” and the impacts of it on Chinese culture. While most still respect Mao most of my friends I talk to do agree that the Cultural Revolution was destructive in nature.
并没有，无产阶级大革命是伟大的，死掉的人罪有应得
But purging the party probably was necessary tho.
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文化大革命没有错，里面有捣乱的人。刘少奇在文化大革命初期把路线扩大化，制造了很多冤假错案。文化大革命期间，中国拥有超越全世界的民主。里面的错误都是官僚主义的错。
Can't respect a cruel dictator like that, no thanks
I recommend two Chinese movies for those who are interested in this topic: Farewell My Concubine (1993) and To Live (1994). They are not mainly about cultural revolution but it is a crucial element in both films. As a Taiwanese, we undeniably share some historical relations with China and it's really hard for those who are not from our culture to understand how serious the affects caused by cultural revolution really are, and that's why I'm glad Vox makes this vid!
yes these are great videos. they're perfect for after taken 1 year of chinese.
taiwan is just built by nationalist chinese tho... so china and taiwan is not that different at all
I will look for these, thank you.
@@ethank8362 like what i said taiwan is just a nationalist country..
Taiwan is a chinese province
I'm reading the Three Body Problem trilogy, and it starts with the Cultural Revolution. I had heard about it, but I had no idea of how chaotic it actually was.
thing about mao is ... he is like the uncle that saved you from a rapid dog when you were young but also behaved like a drunkard during holidays...
Well put.
Well put.
You guys fail to mention that MAO's record-breaking swimming was happened in a river, he was swimming with the stream
True
Marc Hu omg I haven’t thought of that good catch
...and how fast is the stream?
If you want to make a point bring facts. Speed of stream as first.
Independent Mind I mean who in their right mind decide to record their swimming speed with a stream lol
@@TheGuggo ...righttttt....like i gotta birng out every detail to convince you. I'll for give your for not having the time to find it out yourself cuz you certainly need to play that EQ playlist more often
My parents and grandparents lived through this, I can’t imagine how
My teacher in secondary school lived through this too, but she was the red guard....
I'm sorry they went through it. God bless them 🙏🏽
Mine did too, the red guards killed my great grandparents, burned our family heirlooms dating back to 2000 bc
@@owo4202 How is she now? Is she still, you know, "very passionate" about it?
@@owo4202 lol did you teacher tell any story?
Good video
My coworker left when she was 5 years old during the cultural revolution and was taken on a school trip to an execution. It was awful. So much more than what we knew happened
Dark Room is my favourite series ever. So thank you
along with borders!
did they just all got brain washed after some dude swam in the river??
yes , LOL !
I don't know about the western world but here in the east masses tend to follow political leaders like God..and any simple act by them gets glorified..they use religion or some strong ideology to support their doings
@@sanjairaj2211 it's not a Eastern thing...did you forget about Hitler
Gotta mention that being able to swim is a rare skill in some parts of the country
@@sanjairaj2211 it's everywhere dude
Interesting video
The Red Guards in the Three-Body Problem book by Liu Cixin sent me here!
Apparently his story is oddly similiar to Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. Both conquered the nation by destroying all other factions, both consolidated power and purged opponents, used forced labour, burned books and destroyed history of the old dynasties,.....etc
Mao is said to have claimed that they were different because he killed ten times more intellectuals.
@@profmom Did they proportioned that findings with the population growth? Obviously, there are significantly fewer people in ancient times than the 20th century.
@@s_ame1135 Doubtful; I would assume he was speaking anecdotally rather than basing his claim on any real statistics. In other words, I'd classify it as a brag. To clarify, this was supposedly Mao himself rather than someone being either disparaging or aggrandizing.
Lol Qin dynasty died very soon after that.
1:34 they never owned the land. It was owned by a small class of feudal landlords.
Agreed, but then, instead of giving it back to them or socializing it, they nationalized it and basically enslaved the populace.
@@soupycask nationalising it means it is owned collectively by the population.
The Fish of Truth Nationalizing means it’s owned by the government. And if you think the population at that time could somehow force the government’s hands you must be from the outside looking in with rose-tinted glasses
@Dr. Pavel to a limited extent but most of china was controlled by warlords at that time and the central government (KMT) had little influence in many regions
@Dr. Pavel there still were huge landlords though, which formed the bulk of land ownership. Building socialism is a process that happens in stages, they couldn't abolish private ownership overnight
an interesting and unusual approach to this subject.
This is really interesting
The biggest catastrophic trait of the Cultural Revolution was that it turned families against families, neighbors against neighbors, students against teachers. The people became prone to snitch and tell on each other for something that others said, and to me, that was the biggest destruction of the familial traditions embedded in Chinese culture.
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In a way very similar to what the wokes-left in the West and the US are doing.
@@mansionbookerstudios9629 Watching a manipulator like Yeonmi isn’t saving anyone. And even if Yeonmi was actually honest and informational the Kim Dynasty and WPK wouldn’t suddenly have a change of heart and start freeing their people.
@@RedCommunistDragon I thought it was sarcasm, because Yeonmi Park is widely acknowledged as being a fraud
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that the man who invented the frisbee got turned into a frisbee when he died
Who
Jammy Walter Frederick Morrison
@@savethetrees1214 it True
so? how that related to mao?
Most random knowledge ever but thanks.
Shocking fact: Chinese until now still think Mao was great...
worse than Hitler, wasn't He?
Well at least, we ve been told that Hitler killed Jewish and his enemies, not his own people. And German had a very advance tech in that time
no, you literally can't compare these both.
@@minu25 like, you can't say who is worse or that one of them is far worse?
@@minu25 but you can... for example like what he said and also death counts
not even close, please read even a single book
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Chad Vox : *MAO ZEDONG AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION*
Great work man, thank you for this. What terrible events, I hope and pray to God that more people will come to realize what really happened.
This seems like what is going on here in America over race. I can't believe Americans want to model this type of economic system
这个视频真精美
When I ask my grandma about the cultural revolution, “Well your grandpa nearly got shot in the head by a random person” she said, those were the days ;)
General Meow
He was a crow killer, so...
General Neow the Immortal. Giver of cards, relics, and curses.
Meow zedong.
the great maori
Meowsef Stalin
It's just a coincidence, but this changed completely my perception of the cover photo of one of my favorite albums ever: Slint - Spiderland
Same for me with Thundercat's 'Drunk'^^
@@soriba391 and @Iv Di thanks for throwing in the references. I'll now spend the weekend listening to Slint and Thundercat.
Very neutral and useful video.
Seeing those antiques destroyed breaks my heart 💔
Mao: Its soo hot in here, how about we all go for a swim?
The People's Republic of China: *_heavy breathing intensifies_
The river seems so yellow
Did they have diarrhea?
@@user-uq3um5nq7d I'm sorry if this is a joke but I wanna inform you that the river is yellow because of the minerals being dragged along. Yellow River made the place the Yellow Emperor of China ruled. At least, that's what I was taught
still waiting for VOX to make a video on dark history of the US.
What? It's Already Done Loads!
History is intriguing
“All of the old must be destroyed”
How frightening.
Kashif destroying history is always a bad idea
@@LoveFor298Yen nope, you think destroy history is bad, because the history is benefit you.
Destroy history is not bad idea and should remove and replace new one. Time always destroy the past and ppl need live tomorrow.
If they said "the olds must be destroyed" during the french revolution, you'd be praising it. You see this differently however, because you've been taught to hate communism.
BigPigPig we build our civilisations upon the old ones. We dont destroy it, we build on it.
@@samewish yeah but what if nations repeat the same mistakes again, learning from history prevents this.
3:58 looks kind of familiar the last 2 weeks
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@@thewinterbear7818 she's just a spammer
2020 and 2021: USA
@@Leo-gz9sc no she's awake to cancerous communism u dgnerate
As a Chinses this seems not right, like slavery. In schools they never taught about this even though this is part of history.
You can't blame everything at Mao despite being the first "president" of China his hard because of the large population. China was also falling behind, so they need to act fast on changing their economy to the next level.
"Land they once owned themselves" uhhhhhh what? Under the previous feudal system less than 1% of peasants owned the land that they worked on.
chinese peasants regained all land before 1953 after the land reform launched. they had 3 years with their land until collectivization
Had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Mr Li (the photographer who shot the images at 5:11) recount the stories of working as a photographer in those turbulent times. His full series of images from the era is worth checking out.
RIP Mr Li. It was a pleasure to have met and hear you speak.
You know.. if you’ve been a good leader with great outcome and liked by everyone, you wouldn’t need to be remembered by force.
Doesn’t matter. You just CAN’T please everybody. You can be a good leader with great outcomes BUT YOU WONT BE LIKED BY EVERYONE.
Rather, "if you've been a good leader, then you don't care whether people remember you, you are just happy that you helped your people lead better lives".
In time, Mao's legacy has been looked at with more openness and honesty. Today, he's not hailed as the god-like figure that he once was. Yes, some Chinese still miss him, but most understand he simply wasn't the same in his later years.
ZhangtheGreat yes, I’ve heard people say that if Mao died ten years before his actual death, he would be remembered as one of the greatest figures in Chinese history, yet with a tarnished reputation from the Great Leap Forward. If he had died 10 years before that, he would be remembered as a hero who lifted millions out of poverty.
A good leader is disliked by everyone equally as no leader can give everyone exactly what they want.
Hello, thank you for producing this video. I am also research on this period, and I am very interested in the archive footages related to the great leap forward movement in the video. Is there any way that you could share the name or links of the Archive , so I could go find the whole video? Thank you.
Notice the image of Mao in front of the bridge is edited so both figures are equal/mirroring each other near the end of the video?
We actually covered this topic in history yesterday!
@@evan2173 so, when is it okey to mass murder? I thought it was bad every time.
Google heard that. Do you think this video got into your feed by coincidence?
@@evan2173 I've met with a lot of Chinese people who lived in China during the revolution. Professors, workers, people in their deathbeds. None saw it as something good. Every one of them hated it. So how about instead of reading a book made by a single person, you actually go and talk to civilians who lived during that time?
@@evan2173 Christ man, 40 million deaths is far more than a simple drawback. We didn't need Mao to realize that rebellion is a right, been a theme of America since its dawn.
@@johngalt97 haha no, i'm actually subscribed to vox lol
Vox does the best visual presentation part out of all channels I know. Well done as usual, guys!
Alex, Ja, Freilich !
Do you ever just get so mad at US imperialism that you swim across a river?
History is such an interesting topic.