Great documentary honestly. You can see how much China has changed astronomically since then of course. This video makes it seem like everyone was happy at the time but as we know now this was during the Great Leap Forward. Where up to 50 million people started to death
Those beehive smelters were ineffective. They had the right idea in trying for better production, but some industries don’t respond well to decentralization. Interesting how different China is today...much more advanced.
Yes, they do seem to have learned how to copy rather well, especially after Hank Paulson Jr., formerly CEO of Goldman Sachs, gave them the keys to the car, for a price.
Much of the problems of the GLF were corrected during the CR which saw production grow almost non-stop from 1967 till 1976. You can check the statistics by the very CPC, which after the deng coup was not at all fond of the CR achievements calling it “ten years of disaster”, a slogan you keep repeating
In trying to be fair, I think this film is too one sided, not mentioning the great political and physical deprivations that were happening then. China in 1962 was a hermit kingdom under the direction of one man, Chairman Mao, whose policies, particularly in the areas of manufacturing, agricultural, and cultural itself had been for most of the 50's complete disasters that would lead to mass starvation (physically and spiritually). By 1962 Chairman Mao was beginning to lose his grip on the state, which lead to the :Cultural Revolution of 1966-76 when many were terrorized, wrenched from their positions for being counter revolutionary and sent to the countryside or imprisoned and murdered. There was NEVER a good time in Communist China. I understand that Encyclopaedia Britannica has to walk a thin line, but I hope that in 1962 this document was pointed out for the incomplete catalog of Chinese life that it was. I do thank you very much for posting it, as even though I find much to criticize, it is a rare filmed look inside China of the time.
what he did was necessary then, and might become necessary again, especially if erik prince keeps doing his games on them, it will again become necessary to do such things as mao did.
We still don't know the extent of the horrors in China and throughout the rest of that world, and may never know. "disappeared" records was an early shadowban and the drumbeat pounds again whilst Venezuela's zoos empty...
one sided if your looking at it through hindsight. everything he's said has been true as well as his representation of the potential for china to get better. it didn't but he wasnt going to know that
@@timspiker9550 He minimized the industrial backwardness of Chine up to 1962. Mao's pet projects like the "Great Leap Forward". The aim (between 1958-1962) was to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization. These policies led to social and economic disaster, but these failures were hidden by widespread exaggeration and deceitful reports. The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement was a liberalization of expression rights which encouraged the Chinese to express openly their opinions of the communist regime. Differing views and solutions to national policy were encouraged based on the famous expression by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong. It last six weeks. After this brief period of liberalization, Mao cracked down on those who criticized the communist regime. The crackdown continued through 1957-1959 as an Anti-Rightist Campaign against those who were critical of the regime and its ideology. Those targeted were publicly criticized and condemned to prison labor camps. This is a very small sample of the offenses of the regime'. These were allusions to the evils of communism, but in my opinion the film offered up a much too rosy picture of life under Mao. China got better after Mao died and the defeat of the "Gang of Four". Then came the great liberalization of the economy. That's what saved China.
Joe Postove right...but again a foreign correspondent in china in 1962 is only able to report on what's seen and not hidden by the government. things we know now, not in 1962
Let me put a small fact for the very learned people who are saying a lot of things against the documentary. The real wage (your wage - your expenses) is stagnant in US from 1930s (it's been 9 decades now) while in China after the revolution up until now, it has grown three fold. Also, compare the healthcare and education expenses 😋. You will get, which government fools people and spoonfeeds them propaganda. Take love ❤️.
American wages have been stagnant since the 1980s, while average expenses have been going up and up since. 2024 and onwards, China is doing well because of their investments and labor productivity.
your videos recording so many precious history,thank you,today's China not the slaves anymore,we united under the communist party,we make ourselves strong enough,not by invasion,but self-improvements
By going to China and opening it up to international trade. This brought real wealth into China and also western education on what had been found to work and what not in many places. Communism doesn't survive that well once the peasants can actually make themselves a decent life, and discover that there are things better than being effectively slaves to the government. PS: I'm anything but a fan of Tricky Dickie, but this is probably the one and only thing he did right in his political career, and it was of HUGE importance to the US and the world. If he hadn't done that, we wouldn't now be living on Chinese-made goodies that we get for virtually free.
Great stuff thanks so much for posting
Great documentary honestly. You can see how much China has changed astronomically since then of course. This video makes it seem like everyone was happy at the time but as we know now this was during the Great Leap Forward. Where up to 50 million people started to death
Those beehive smelters were ineffective. They had the right idea in trying for better production, but some industries don’t respond well to decentralization. Interesting how different China is today...much more advanced.
Yes, they do seem to have learned how to copy rather well, especially after Hank Paulson Jr., formerly CEO of Goldman Sachs, gave them the keys to the car, for a price.
Much of the problems of the GLF were corrected during the CR which saw production grow almost non-stop from 1967 till 1976. You can check the statistics by the very CPC, which after the deng coup was not at all fond of the CR achievements calling it “ten years of disaster”, a slogan you keep repeating
In trying to be fair, I think this film is too one sided, not mentioning the great political and physical deprivations that were happening then. China in 1962 was a hermit kingdom under the direction of one man, Chairman Mao, whose policies, particularly in the areas of manufacturing, agricultural, and cultural itself had been for most of the 50's complete disasters that would lead to mass starvation (physically and spiritually).
By 1962 Chairman Mao was beginning to lose his grip on the state, which lead to the :Cultural Revolution of 1966-76 when many were terrorized, wrenched from their positions for being counter revolutionary and sent to the countryside or imprisoned and murdered.
There was NEVER a good time in Communist China. I understand that Encyclopaedia Britannica has to walk a thin line, but I hope that in 1962 this document was pointed out for the incomplete catalog of Chinese life that it was.
I do thank you very much for posting it, as even though I find much to criticize, it is a rare filmed look inside China of the time.
what he did was necessary then, and might become necessary again, especially if erik prince keeps doing his games on them, it will again become necessary to do such things as mao did.
We still don't know the extent of the horrors in China and throughout the rest of that world, and may never know. "disappeared" records was an early shadowban and the drumbeat pounds again whilst Venezuela's zoos empty...
one sided if your looking at it through hindsight. everything he's said has been true as well as his representation of the potential for china to get better. it didn't but he wasnt going to know that
@@timspiker9550 He minimized the industrial backwardness of Chine up to 1962. Mao's pet projects like the "Great Leap Forward". The aim (between 1958-1962) was to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization. These policies led to social and economic disaster, but these failures were hidden by widespread exaggeration and deceitful reports.
The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement was a liberalization of expression rights which encouraged the Chinese to express openly their opinions of the communist regime. Differing views and solutions to national policy were encouraged based on the famous expression by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong.
It last six weeks. After this brief period of liberalization, Mao cracked down on those who criticized the communist regime. The crackdown continued through 1957-1959 as an Anti-Rightist Campaign against those who were critical of the regime and its ideology. Those targeted were publicly criticized and condemned to prison labor camps.
This is a very small sample of the offenses of the regime'. These were allusions to the evils of communism, but in my opinion the film offered up a much too rosy picture of life under Mao.
China got better after Mao died and the defeat of the "Gang of Four". Then came the great liberalization of the economy. That's what saved China.
Joe Postove right...but again a foreign correspondent in china in 1962 is only able to report on what's seen and not hidden by the government. things we know now, not in 1962
Noticed @ 4:25,no portrait of Mao.
Anyone know who the American journalist narrator is?
John Lewis Strohm (aka my grandfather)
Let me put a small fact for the very learned people who are saying a lot of things against the documentary.
The real wage (your wage - your expenses) is stagnant in US from 1930s (it's been 9 decades now) while in China after the revolution up until now, it has grown three fold.
Also, compare the healthcare and education expenses 😋.
You will get, which government fools people and spoonfeeds them propaganda.
Take love ❤️.
American wages have been stagnant since the 1980s, while average expenses have been going up and up since.
2024 and onwards, China is doing well because of their investments and labor productivity.
The backyard iron was useless. Wasted steel, wood/coal and manpower.
And crops rotting in the fields from farmers wasting time turning useful iron and steel into slag.
10:20 copy of the Soviet LV 2-10-2 (built in Dalian)
your videos recording so many precious history,thank you,today's China not the slaves anymore,we united under the communist party,we make ourselves strong enough,not by invasion,but self-improvements
more like through IP theft and enslaving Muslims and han women :p
Thank you, Richard Nixon, for wrecking it all.
How?
By going to China and opening it up to international trade. This brought real wealth into China and also western education on what had been found to work and what not in many places. Communism doesn't survive that well once the peasants can actually make themselves a decent life, and discover that there are things better than being effectively slaves to the government.
PS: I'm anything but a fan of Tricky Dickie, but this is probably the one and only thing he did right in his political career, and it was of HUGE importance to the US and the world. If he hadn't done that, we wouldn't now be living on Chinese-made goodies that we get for virtually free.
so the wheel has turned and the dragon soars
Surely this didn’t cost anything. Especially since the people overworked the lsnd
China will never FAIL!!!!!! imho. CHINA WILL RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!! says the dork.
This is Biden's AMERICA.
Bruh shut up, shut the f up.
I mean the guys doing all he can having inherited a 3rd world country with Iphones XDD
Got anything not made in China at the house? Is all the junk broken? USAUSAGOODBYEUSA!!
lalala
Bernie Sanders would love this and 40% of the Democrat Party
Ok nazi
I wish
Surelly China was all fun and plays before 1949, right? Just after a century of western occupation.
you consider japan western?
@@queequeg152 You ignorant. China was occupied by the english, the french, the portuguesse, the russians, the germans. And that's after 1850.
@@armandobalance9208 And previously it was under the Tyranny of the Manchu. Western occupiers were benevolent by comparison.
@@zszyTW yeah, the guys that droged them with opium and make them a war to sell it were good.
Try again little kid
Like living in a prison
cry about it