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Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of China's Tragedy
The very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever. Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Yet a silence remains as to why. Over eleven years in Maos China, an all-out assault on class enemies took place. Teenagers smashed their teachers skulls. Doctors were tortured in jail as foreign spies. Ordinary people condemned counter-revolutionaries to execution and then went home and ate their dinner. This was less than fifty years ago. But the victims are being forgotten already. Wang Youqin unmasks the true brutality of the Cultural Revolution. Documenting the deaths of over six hundred individuals, Read more