Pushed to the shadows for who? Because I’m pretty sure every Chinese person knows about the cultural revolution.
Surprisingly enough, most Westerners seem to know about it too, which is especially surprising in a country where 98% of people don’t know what continent El Salvador is in (someone I asked said “Asia”)
We Americans have no grasp on geography it’s true. I doubt most of us knew where Ukraine was before last year (and I bet many of us still can’t point to it on a map)
There’s a very depressing video on YouTube of someone asking people around America to point to Ukraine on a map. I kid you not, one person pointed to Canada and said “If Ukraine was far away, clearly the US wouldn’t be involved in it”. A total of one person out of everyone asked got it right.
Hoping someone liberates Klanada next. Too many nazis here.
Please I am begging anyone to sort this place out
Embarrassing confession time: as a kid, I got the Andes and the Himalayas mixed up, and as a result thought Tibet was somewhere in South America.
It’s always projection.
Did you know that Mao killed the entire Chinese population and replaced it with North Korean actors who Kil Il-sung provided?
And then he killed all the North Koreans and all “Chinese” people are secretly lizard Flumbonians trying to genocide humans and replace everyone with communist Russian Martians
communist Russian Martians
Don’t threaten me with a good time
That’s historically untrue though. In fact, Stalin secretly defended the world from the Martian invasion. See this document:
Ah, but the usage of Russian and communist implies that after the invasion was defeated, the revolution was brought back to Mars for the liberation of the Red Planet’s proletariat!
He managed to turn part of nazi Germany into country as based as GDR, Mars was way easier.
A tragedy pushed into the shadows: The truth about Europe’s colonialism.
The only thing Mao ever did wrong was not killing enough landlords
Nah. Because his primary goal was never to kill anyone if he could help it. His goal was to reeducate them into productive workers, and he was quite successful at doing that. Surprise surprise, the notion of “Mall killed every landlord aimlessly and without hesitation” is a complete fabrication by Western propaganda.
Most of the people outright killed by the PLA were not just landlords, but full-on warlords who committed atrocities far beyond just renting out land, and whom they were directly fighting in the revolution. Bit of a difference there. Think less just some guy who owns your downtown apartment and more like a medieval Europe “Lord”, you know, the asshole who lives in a castle and has knights and shit (not an inaccurate comparison either because China was essentially a feudal state before Mao).
My grandparents and great grandparents were former landlords in China who had their land collectivized. They weren’t treated very well because of their history but honestly really not that bad, it was actually re-education they went through, as in they were taught worker skills that they could use, not torture just for the hell of torturing them. They became normal workers and though they still don’t really think fondly socialism because of it (partly why my family moved to Canada when I was a kid but that’s a different story) even they can’t recall many people who were outright killed by the PLA, because they really didn’t kill that many people despite what the West says. They remember tons of people being killed by the Japanese though, not just gunned down either, sadistic methods the Japanese soldiers came up with for fun.
Like, people in the West say “the reeducation camps the Chinese/Soviets for landlords and the other bourgeoisie are just like the camps the Nazis and Japanese built! How can you denounce one and not the other?” Because they weren’t at all alike. For one, Stalin and Mao had a plan to let them back out later, which is a pretty damn big difference.
The treatment of Puyi (the last emperor) as well, he went from a former emperor and Japanese puppet who had his every need catered to (unable to brush his teeth or tie his shoes on his own) into a citizen working as a librarian in his later years.
Projection much?
“pushed to the shadows”, they covered it up so well that I had to watch videos about it in 4th grade, I live in Australia… That and Tiananmen
decade of horror
intellectuals doing manual labor
PTSD flashbacks of digging up potatoes alongside Jerry in the countryside
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