1966: The Story Of The Westerners Caught In Mao's Revolution | Inside Mao's China | Timeline
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- At the height of Maoism, China was as closed off as present-day North Korea. But even at that time, some Western foreigners lived in the country and in the summer of 1966, they witnessed first-hand the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. In this time young leftist activists In Western Europe idolized Mao as a harbinger of a utopian society. As China eased out of its age of isolation in the early 1970's, many Westerners outside of China had to face a harsh reality.
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Both of my parents lived through that as high school students. Both were from intellectual families and it was a horrifying experience. My father told me that one night at the beginning of the revolution, his father gathered every piece of paper in the house, books, newspapers, letters, my dad’s diary, his own diary, anything and everything that might be used against them and burned them all. Shortly after that, they did come search the house and dragged away his father. He was put to live with the pigs. Before that, He was one of the founding engineers of the city’s water company. He did survived that era.
I'm sorry your family had to go through that. I'm sure your father would be a greatly respected historical figure if Mao didn't take power.
lucky
My father had his Iphone taken away. Mao threw his phone into the air and it killed 10 billion people
@@Geodendronitrian you have to fight for your freedom. No one hands it to you
@@em9341 clearly you are one of those third world country dictatorship cadre
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
Ya
A miss is aa good as a mile, Old English verse.
What a great quote!!!
To each their own
Green energy anyone?
I think the first step in trying to change the system or society should be understanding there is no such thing as a utopia.
Since the French Revolution people have known this but still no one learns
Even the word Utopia, even when coined, literally translates to "No Place".
No matter the system, people cannot resist the temptation to bend it to their advantage.
@@mrtulipeater so you’re suggesting that communism is an acceptable alternative? Lol
@@bbr6444 Keep your shirt on. I think it was Milton Friedman who observed that capitalism is where man exploits man and under socialism it’s vice versa.
The college students who have never worked a day in their life or faced hardship should see more firsthand accounts of ordinary people from USSR and Red China
100000%
Notice none of the Red Guards were peasants or farmers. Spoiled, entitled college students. Do you see any parallels today?
@@Bloo0969 You do understand that the majority of influential people in history were students and the educated? Students are the most susceptible to radical ideas bc of their education and their youth. Older generations will likely maintain the same opinions they held decades ago, that’s why it’s always the students that are the first to protest and revolt. However, it should be noted that socialism and communism directly benefit the working class. Every single communist revolution has been fought by the workers. With China, rural farmers supported Mao during the Chinese Civil War, during the official revolution, it was the farmers and workers that usurped land that had been held by landlords, and killed them.
@@definitelynotbeans5639 useless eaters are most easily susceptible to radical ideas. Government-mandated education creates useless eaters for brainwashing purposes. But there are always better brainwashers than your common bureaucrats.
Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin were self-educated, through work.
@@definitelynotbeans5639 I get what he's saying. He's right many of today's college students are the naive types that march for and protest for questionable groups like Antifa, BLM and some of your pro-Hamas and anti-Israeli groups. Not to mention also that some of them have been marxists. They may have been the most influential people in history but the causes they support haven't been so good.
I’ve never heard about this from Europeans who were there. A remarkable documentary which surprised me even though I knew about this particular period in China.
Nothing to brag about, beeing part of failed socialism and breadlines
@@warwarneverchanges4937 it's a diversity of sources...
Everything you know about China probably comes from the West which is incredibly stupid if you think about it.😂 it's not an insult, but I do recommend talking to some Chinese who lived through that period. If not possible maybe a family of theirs.
@@davidmoss2576 wise man
I am Chinese. When Chinese people see an old man who has done bad things, they will say that the bad person has grown old. This is a mockery of the uneducated Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. The Cultural Revolution was a disaster for China. There was also the famine in the 1960s and cannibalism. These were all disasters caused by Mao.
There is a great book called THE FORSAKEN about people who went to live in the USSR in the 30's .Sad reading a majority of them never left!
There was an American wanna be singer with Reed as a last name, who become a typical Russian alcoholic and after some failing attempts to visits the States, his dead body was found in a public park.
I read about them. They thought they were going to a communist utopia and running from the American depression and dust bowl. Boy did they get a wake-up call.
@@virgiljjacas1229 Ukrainians are pretty good alcoholics too. I’m half Ukrainian and while I don’t touch the stuff my family could kick back alcohol like nobody’s business. Nostrovia! I think there is some kind of metabolism issue with east slavics, kind of like our native Americans suffer with.
These leaders and their followers always remind me of a cult.
Communism is a cult. It is a wicked religion
You’re right on. They were.
It’s chilling how nonchalantly Paul pointed to others as spies.
This is such a unique view of modern Chinese history from people who were there during that time. 🙏
Ask anyone who was in Hong Kong during the cultural revolution, there were headless bodies floating past Victoria Harbor
2 or 3 every other day, shark alert on repulse bay and most beaches
The whole thing was reported on newspapers
You watch too much BBC
@@M_Jono for real
@@M_Jono Found the Chinese bots.
Idiots don't care about history.
You don't even know how many factions there were in the Cultural Revolution, it was a complicated struggle.
It's called taking a giant step backwards. Why in the heck would you close schools and destroy your positive cultural images?
Because totalitarians don't want the people to have any identity other than what the dictator/government allows them. Destroying the culture and other forms of identifying themselves (family, education, religion, profession) made it easier for him to make them just Maoists who lived in China, instead of them being the Chinese Nation with a grand history and rich culture.
Ye man what da heck!1!1!!1’q
You have to understand what Marxism is all about. It's about the complete destruction and replacement of everything.
Ask antifa, that’s what they and the youth of today are doing
you close schools = to control people more easily. That's why his dad as an intellectual was taken to prison.
"Chairman Mao?"
"Yes. What is it?"
"Great Leader, the people have taken to the streets and are protesting!"
"So? I like protests"
"Chairman Mao, they are protesting against YOU"
"OFF with their heads!"
Not much has changed
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
(Attributed to Stalin)
people are so pathetically gullible
And the young are so particularly naive and susceptible, and the first to be recruited every time. Western uni students on the streets with Mao placards, red guards, same by Pol Pot and the killing fields, and so it goes.
I can imagine how sick it must have made every Chinese person who had reverence for their history to see it torn down while being powerless to stop it.
Like how people who respect American history feel as the rioters replace our statues and monuments with grotesque embarrassments. Eerily similar.
@@MattCurrieImprov Suspiciously Similar...
What makes you think Chinese communists dont respect Chinese history? They still teach the classics over there and have a very robust available classes regarding Chinese history.
I should know, it was one of the things I studied - especially Han dynasty.
You also have to realize the chinese had just escaped what they called the "Century of humiliation" so wanted to rewrite their future. The humiliation of not being able to self determine their future as Europeans colonized their country and then the Japanese occupied the rest. They were ready to start a new after all they had faced.
@@MattCurrieImprovno more joe Biden
We enjoy everything till we are the ones to suffer
Every generation looks for some sort of utopia, usually following a charismatic leader who may or may not have any real plan behind all the talk. The 1960's saw the hippie movement in the US with communes, peace & love as a theme but that quickly faded away as many felt the pull of consumerism and the need for employment in order to provide for themselves and their families. Some sort of form of capitalism usually comes out as the most practical way to support even communal societies like the 19th century Shakers or the Amana Colonies and China that realized isolationism was also stagnation when trying to grow a country.
I don't know what's going on in America today but it's not a country I recognize.. in one year it's changed so much and it's more than what America was going through in the late sixties and early seventies with the hippie generation and the drugs pro love etc etc.... Back then it was a choice of being a family person and probably going to church and eating dinner every night at 6:00 p.m. and watching the news vs playing the guitar on the street and drinking and doing drugs a lot and a lot of sexual relationships with different people.. it's really weird how people were being diagnosed with AIDS about 10 years later and most of them around 1981 to 1983 at first.. I don't think those were the people that were wild in the late sixties because he usually people would start to come down with full blown AIDS within 5 to 10 years..
I look at the United States now and I see two or three groups of individuals. Most people are just your average ordinary everyday people who get up and work for a living or go through struggles of their own and raise families etc etc.. then there's this other group that thinks the world's going to end because of carbon emissions.. I was born in the late 1960s and I remember when I was 10 years old and 20 years old we were being told that we were going to run out of oil.😂 I wasn't worried about it because I was just a kid and in my early twenties so I wasn't a worry wart like a lot of the youngsters and college aged kids today.. it's sad that so many people go to college and depending on what they study, they come out of college and they don't even recognize a picture of Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt.. it's just absolutely amazing!! I miss the 1980s and it was a really good decade except for HIV and AIDS.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023
" this other group that thinks the world is going to end Because of carbon emissions"
You show by this statement that you have no real education.
Science isn't just opinion it is the thing that has bought us every electric and electronic marvel you have.
You just take this stuff for granted and accept the fact that you couldn't make a single one of them yourself.
You know people smarter than you sat down and designed them, made the hardware and wrote the software.
You don't try and make your own phone because you know it's beyond your ability.
But you hear scientists that have spent lifetimes examining the environment and the changes of the environment hear them say that " the debate is over, man made climate change is real and MUST be addressed" and you think you know better.
If you would even try to prove them wrong you would learn enough to understand that they are right but you just sit in ignorance and say what?
What exactly are you saying?
It can't be true?
My god would not let it happen?
My husband says it's not true?
You are a fool.
Some radical US activists actually traveled to China in the 60s and met with Mao's officials for advice and support. Some older folks to this day understandably accuse them of being traitors.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 I’m in one of the most liberal college towns in the Midwest and I have not met one single person who thinks the world is going to end because of carbon emissions. Just because the mass media tells you that liberals are hysterical about climate change does not mean it’s true.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 it is mostly just TV that believes that. Turn off the TV and go visit people and chat. Go back to church and attend social events there. By far the majority of Americans are trying to live a normal life.
My dads family was in China during the Japanese occupation. Fortunately they tended to leave the Russian's alone. They managed to leave in 1950.
And some Christians. What's your surname if I may?
always looking for a savior instead of having faith in them self
Faith idealism and the cult of personality… 20 million starved to death 💀 and they still can’t see the truth
Well... that won't work either. Only faith in Jesus will save you.
Thats why Mao was open when he targeted poor and the uneducated
more like finding a scapegoat (capitalists, bourgeois, jews) rather than facing your own failures.
That's what's happening in Western culture today
Scary but true. Here in America, rioters pulled down some statues of Ulysses S. Grant and even George Washington. "Oppressors" they called them. It had nothing to do with the Confederate controversies whatsoever, it was all about vilifying America's past people.
Yes
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I'll go prepare the popcorns,the shitshow is already at it's climax
Thank you for producing this valuable video hopefully young people will learn about this important history.
From 1968 to 1970 I attended a school that subscribed to at least two Chinese magazines published in English, one of which was "China Reconstructs". I remember very well the difference between the issues from before the Cultural Revolution, and then during it. The earlier ones showed all kinds of scenic photos along with cheerful posed pictures of workers and important structures that had been built, often with colorful flowers included. Then it all shifted abruptly to the total adulation of Mao along with pictures of fervent Red Guard members and meetings in workplaces of fervent worshippers of Mao and his Little Red Book. No pictures of natural wonders or pretty girls; total revolution. I had zero desire to see any of this in person because I could see how crazed it was, but I was still intrigued because there virtually no firsthand descriptions of what was happening.
Love these documentation. Can you please add more on Pol Pot, and Che Rivera. Maybe more people will see the repeat in history when it comes to communism and socialism. Please keep up the great work.
Che who?
@@DaveSCameron Che Rivera worked with Fidel Castro during the Cuba 🇨🇺 takeover and crises. Che is the face you see on t-shirts worn by groups who support communism, socialism, ANTIFA, guy pride groups, etc. Funny thing is, guy pride groups wear his products, don't know he use to send guy men to slave labor camps with signs around the camp saying "work will make you men"
@@brettcole3222 Guevara!
Who is Che Rivera ?
Also, it would be useful for people to realise that communism is just another form of capitalism. It's centralised capitalism, where the means of production is in the hands of the state. Our current system concentrates power in the hands of a very few individuals in a similar way, individuals who have more actual power than the state. Not so sure that that our current masters of capital - Jobs, Musk, Zuckerberg et al have any more concern for the wellbeing of humanity than the Maos and Pol Pots.
Eye opener to me.. more such videos on china would be great 👍🏻
Look up Frank Dikkoter’s talks
Powerful historical documentary.
As I watch this after watching a documentary on 'The Great Leap Forward' the irony of Marxist/Maoist criticism of the capitalist west is not lost on me, particularly at timestamps 7:34 and 40:14. "Farmers and factory workers toil for long hours and low wages while the elites reap the rewards in a capitalist society" says the Marxist/Maoist. In Mao's China, peasants toil in the fields and factories for no wages, while the elite reap the rewards.
Capitalism and Marxism are both plagued by the same issue: human greed. No communist society has made it past the transitionary period into a post-capitalist economy. Socialism has been accomplished to some extent, but not true communism. It’s the greed of the leaders that cause progress to halt. That’s why there are dozens of different sects of communist and marxist thought that seek to solve some of the issues that have been revealed in things like Mao’s revolution and the Bolsheviks. It should be noted that Capitalism supports wealth inequality just as much as the forms of communism seen in history. The reality is, if you allow a minority to control the means of production, there will always be inequality.
Maoism, part two, the cultural revolution of 1966-1976. Idealism and utopianism at their grandest. Part one was the great leap forward of 1958-1962, resulting in the deaths of about 30 million Chinese, mostly from famine.
Billy Bragg - Great Leap Forwards. Brilliant ❤️®️👏
Communism is a facade.
Some Chinese historians say 50 million died in the GLF.
Uh, try again. There were many more deaths than 30 million Chinese in Mao's Cultural Revolution. Mao KILLED around 45 million Chinese in his CULT MOVEMENT.
I just watched the first part. Terrible, they knowingly worked them to death and starved them.
And nowadays, the new "Utopia" is called "The Eternal Invincibility Of Western Democracy" and "Political Correctness".
Thank Deus the end of the American NWO is coming.
30 years of American impunity is over.
If you are interested in this subject I highly recommend "Red China Blues - by journalist Jan Wong. She was a young Chinese Canadian who went to Maoist China in the early 70's expecting to find utopia.
I’ve read it
Son of the revolution is a really good book as well
Is that the one where she describes dead bodies floating along a river at night?
Sheltered and self-righteous people are so easily fooled.
It is a pity that so many are now ignorant/oblivious of History. We, as a species seem to have such difficulty learning from the past. We to have to repeat the same mistakes again, and again, and again.....and we still don't learn.
They have to be taught history correctly, not propaganda, in order to avoid the mistakes of the past.
Very interesting presentation.
Don’t get the guy whose parents were sent to prisons …
Nixon came to China on 21 Feb 1972 not January 1972 as stated in the documentary at 29". Otherwise a fantastic piece of historical narrative!
@OVERwhelmed Facts matter for the proper recitation of history.
What an embarrassment. Unfortunately there are still fools like this running our universities today.
Didn't Trump want to make it illegal to criticize him?
The aftermath of the Cultural revolution was lot more interesting. Thanks to Mr. Bruce Lee, Mr. Chan, Mr. Li, and Golden Harvest Studios and the Shaw Brothers. They brought lots of color after the preceding gloom. 🤩
Great presentation. We are living in a world where whole populations are being upended by a few malicious power-mad individuals.
The world has always been like this, and the sheep always follow.
A pathetic propaganda piece and the fools who follow.
@@scottandrews8357 : the EDUCATIONAL / PROPAGANDA PROCESS at its finest.
@@scottandrews8357 People used to be a lot more tied to the land and to customs. The more urban a society becomes, the less it feels loyalty even to a region or any 'permanent' sort of community. Absolutely everything has become temporary, relative, and in flux. People need anchors. Sanity requires them.
Western nations have never been so unattached -- to family, to place, to culture, to religion, to a set of values. Now it's just government and their propaganda organs, the mainstream media.
@@LynxSouth That and forced integration of immigrants.
We still have professors in our colleges teaching that communism is the best way to live in the USA. Students are radicalized. Then they say that these other countries (China, North Korea and Russia) just didn’t do communism right. They can do it better. They look at Marx as some kind of hero. Our government gives the colleges taxpayers money to support this kind of teaching. It’s crazy to me.
uh but communism is indeed a better society than capitalism. Nowadays, people generally misunderstand communism, believing that it represents totalitarianism, dictatorship, and coercion. This is actually a stereotype.
During the era of Chairman Mao Zedong, China had always been a socialist republic. However, Mao Zedong's various policies were subjected to extreme execution by local bureaucrats, who used this method to oppose Mao Zedong and improve their political achievements. The final result was disasters such as famine. In fact, the proletarian cultural revolution was aimed at opposing these bureaucrats.
Mao Zedong, as the initiator and leader of the proletarian cultural revolution, has always emphasized the importance of "peaceful discussions and not hitting others.(要文斗，不要武斗)" For example, on July 20, 1966, when violent conflicts occurred in Wuhan, Mao Zedong, 73 years old, first came to Wuhan to try to reconcile conflicts among the masses. He repeatedly emphasized, "We must unite and not split; we must be fair and aboveboard, and not engage in conspiracy.(要团结，不要分裂；要光明正大，不要搞阴谋诡计)"
Insane
Even the “peace and love” celebrity couple, John and Yoko, quoted Mao slogans, wore Mao buttons.
And sadly even Ringo, Mister Peace and Love himself, in his 80s, is fooled by the newest incarnation of the Maoist Cultural Revolution, proclaiming support for the openly Marxist terror group, Black Lives Matter (BLM), as they pull down statues, burn down whole neighborhoods. Weird.
Western Marxism is what has taken hold of the US, Canada, and other NATO nations... and is the reason I'm here learning about what we face as a society. It's shocking that so few are interested in history or politics, especially when... our very freedoms, rights, and the understanding of material realty is at stake.
Unbelievable how so many true believers are willing to forgive crimes against them. They are so eager to believe it must be a mistake.
The Soviet 58s thought the same thing: "Who me? Arrest? What for?"
I myself am stunned for their s+up¡d¡ty and willingness to be deliberately deceived.
Watching this video from Guangzhou.
All teenagers should be taught about Potemkin Villages at school.
Whenever billions agree tragedy ensues.
This was interesting
And there are still people today who believe that communism/socialism is the only way to go. How quickly people forget.
Hey don't forget the anarchists. I would love to visit an anarchist country - oh that's right. There aren't any.
well North Korea is always available for these people to experience.... but most of them are just dreamers....
I'm glad that at least some of the per-"Dultural Revolution" culture of mainland China was preserved in the USA and other countries.
Yes, but they will claim it is a "colonized" history.
@@ericmccarty2369 "They" have their heads up a colon.
Most of it still exists in China, the cultural revolution was ultimately a failure.
It is also well preserved in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia
Paul parents deserved everything and more
I lived in Peking 1979-80 as a teacher. I heard a lot of first-hand from my students. Actually I wasn't supposed to talk to anyone but my students and the university admin, but of course I did. I met Paul Crook once. Interesting times. I wasn't a Maoist though. Now in Taipei, Red China is the enemy, of course, and of the West in general.
The end of the west is coming
Excellent documentary of the Cultural Revolution. To read more about this I suggest the book Feather in The Storm by Emily Wu. On a negative philosophical side I have always convinced my self that because human beings are animals, they have the same basic instincts of a common canine. When a dog is hungry they will wag their tail and take a beating just to accept anything that they think is in your hand without thoroughly investigating it. Sometimes in my life I have noticed this odd behavior in humans about religion and governments. It feels almost like some humans are very accepting of the whip and seem to enjoy it before they get their supposed reward. Now the positive: We humans are very capable of deciding for ourselves that this so called progression of humanity through a controlled society doesn’t work. We are from the wild places and should never have to obey a supreme leader. As time goes on, more technological advancement makes your freedoms disappear. This is where we are at in 2022. We are at the crossroads of spiritual extinction. We are a species in a rapid decline. Our best part in history for a human being was as a tribe in close proximity to similar tribes with the same culture. Never trust the Alpha dog. It always has a taste for blood.
thanks
I was 20 in 1966 and was not stupid enough to be in favor of China nor Russia.
Talk about messed up
Unbelievable how man true believers are willing to forgive crimes against them. They are so eager to believe it must be a mistake.
The Soviet 58s thought the same thing: "Who me? Arrest? What for?"
I myself am stunned for their stupidity and willingness to be deliberately deceived.
Shocking auto-destruction of an ancient and traditional civilization. A traumatic deracination reducing everyone to the lowest common denominator, the cultural and spiritual impoverishment of the herd human. Chilling...
It's happening here and now.
@@veronicaevans8134 Yes, it is.
They lost a lot of good things but they got rid of bad things too. When i was small i visited china and saw my grandmothers bound feet, a barbaric and medieval practice. The communists finally put an end to the practice. The main lesson i take away from learning about china from both an eastern and western perspective is that progress is good but we have to take care not to do things too quickly or without fully understanding the consequences. The great leap forward would not have been a disaster if they took longer and listened to actual scientific experts, china could have modernized without the terrible mistakes if the leadership had been more patient and lenient
Commies are losers just look out of the window.
Living in a remote coastal area of China 10 years ago, my little friend invited me to her parents home in a small village on the coast for lunch. Taking a small bus 25 kilometers we arrived near the house - first impressions of the region with unspoilt beaches beautiful ....then reality. Extreme poverty but hospitality. A simple meal cooked with twigs and branches, a house having plastic sheets on the windows to keep out the cold, the parents both sick having lived on grass,leaves and anything else to survive during the difficult times and now in old age needing hospital treatment - money first before seeing a Doctor, a sister working in a factory - the money made to pay parents hospital bills some money apart to help pay studies of Brother....Jenny my little friend having five little jobs to make ends meet and help. Lif was very tough.....today under Hu Jin Tao and Xi things have changed. I admire the Chinese - not all! - for the sufferance they have been through.
Your narration of the living condition in 2013 rural China sounds about right. But realize today, China is going to a famine. Chinese are starving.
@@alexanderchenf1Chinese are starving today?
'Rural area' in China is bigger or close to the size of the entire Europe!
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It is really interesting~
WOW…… just like New York City!!!
Incredible, they were imprisoned by the communists and still loving the leader or excusing the party. Such gullibility and ideological blindness.
It's weird knowing these sign-toters are now rich retired college professors.
depending on the individual what freedom is
The one of most sufferings for some mainland Chinese under Mao's rules were mentality losses which cannot be recovered until now.
China still hasn't recovered fully from The Great Famine. Mao literally kept shooting himself in the foot until he was standing on his ankles. If anything, China will NEVER recover from it, the most important part of any country is it's working citizens and Mao killed off a huge chunk of them.
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. See a pattern here?
Shame on those who betrayed truth and freedom and not redeemed themselves by resistance
They should not have been allowed back in to the west
These people act like they really agreed with what was going on. That’s how a lot of Americans were too. I am the same age as these folks.
Some of us in the west were lucky back then when John Lennon sang his song "Revolution" and woke us up out of our foolishness. "You had better free your mind instead" he said, instead of taking out your frustrations on others.
"....hadn't committed any major crimes yet..." Really?
47:00 it still is superficial.
There is a price to explore, and Marxism comes from classical German philosophy, and a little exposure to it just makes it clear that it's not that easy. I see that people today do not have a theoretical, systematic evaluation of this event, which makes me feel terrible. This raises the possibility of a repeat of the Cultural Revolution, which looms large in many liberal movements in the United States.
@Bryce Osborn Look around you, it’s already started.
It's dangerous to boast own "ambition" in a self-magnifying belief that is : "I want to change / conquer the world!" are often those aggressively climbing onto the top power ladder and see themselves invincible higher and greater than God and their ideology is in the name of do good but their good is twisted by evil...
Thank you.
Mao brought out all the sadists and evil fools and let them attack anyone they wanted to. What a Great Leader.
And they still put up giant Posters of that monster.
I know university professors who have his poster as part of their home decor. Crazy!
Not mentioned by the son of David Crook is that the father was recruited by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, yet in the during the Spanish Civil War to spy on other communists, Trotskyites (most of who were Jewish like himself) and socialists of different factions. He was sent to China with a similar task during WW II.
In the west there was really no understanding of what the so-called Cultural revolution was all about. I remember in a graduate seminar in the 1970s an elderly Jewish student justifying and praising the purges (with never a hint about the violence that was part of it) as saving China from becoming a bureaucratically run state and returning it to its original revolutionary purity. Funny, but the guy was himself a bureaucrat working for the city government of the large city we lived in. Only much later was the truth about the sdavagery and enormous cost in lives of the Cultural Revolution divulged. Were it not for that it would still be romantically memoralized by student leftists. The George Floyd riots of 2020 were reminiscent of the years of terror in China from 1965-1975 with the fury that was let loose by Antifa domestic terrorists who were the ones breaking into businesses, setting fires, beating people up as the opening salvos for others to follow. The blind fanaticism of kids in the Cultural revolution marching in a frenzy waving the Mao's little Red Book was recreated by the Antifa-BLM participants of those frightening events. As in China our corporate news outlets are suppressing so much information that would expose the totalitarian designs of those circles and violent groups.
It’s more like the Hulu for history
The great leap forward is possible. But it's not communism.
China is now the worlds richest country! Communism is the future.
One thing these European citizens knew, they could disappear tomorrow and nothing would done about it.
Plenty of westerners got disappeared in their own countries.
Hmmm. Does this channel censor comments?
Westerns hate communists even harder now.that China is the worlds richest country
Seems like visiting China then as a foreigner is sort of like visiting North Korea these days, isn't it?
cultural revolution is true democracy and free of speech. people are powerful
The truth is more powerful.
but if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow
23:19 That's amazing . . . . the guy in the back of the truck is wearing a medical face mask, way back then!
Yeah, I caught that too...
well the world went through the Spanish Flu in 1912
@@ryanperry8732 I'm surprised to see so many on the trucks wearing masks but not surprised it's in China. They sure do believe in them.
Ryan Perry: I think it was around 1919 to 1920, just after World War I? The soldiers in World War I began to spread it around and then they went home.
There's also earlier at 9:08
I was born in the 1980s, and when I was a kid there was a lot of literature and film about people's plight and tragedy during the Cultural Revolution. when the teacher talked about that era in history class, I was puzzled, why did Mao want to launch the Cultural Revolution, there so many ways to make China stronger, because his personal authority was threatened? Or his hubris? This puzzled me for many years, but as I stepped into society and learned more and more historical materials, I found that the Cultural Revolution was inevitable. China has a history of thousands of years. In ancient China, the real control of China was Big family alliances and bureaucratic classes, most emperors are just their agents, there is a story that all Chinese people know, there was an emperor in ancient times who wanted to reform the law so that the people could be treated better, but his ministers opposed it Say: "No, my lord, you can't do that, this country is run by the bureaucrats for you, not the people". The legitimacy of the Ccp to rule China in what Mao said, the CCP overthrew three mountains (imperialism, feudalism, bureaucratic capitalism) that oppressed the Chinese people, but as the new Chinese regime became more and more stable, many of the past Revolutionaries have or will become bureaucrats and privileged classes. It was precisely because Mao felt threatened by this trend that he launched the Cultural Revolution, which eventually led to tragedy. The old bureaucracy was overthrown and a new bureaucracy appeared. Mao's criticism of the society and the government at that time was not wrong. Now, even more and more Chinese young people agree with his ideas, but his solutions are wrong. Regarding the solution of China's future political structure, our people are still exploring
When sheep start to believe they're lions...Boy! Are the shepards in for it!
If you enjoy being a living robot with no personal opinions to express and want to blend in to the teeming mass of humanity, not stand out and have every aspect of your life decided for you then communism is the lifestyle of choice. Some had this foisted on them simply for being born geographically in those places, others willingly embraced it.
A fascinating video. Really informative. Beautifully done. The tragic development is that Xi has become the new Mao with the addition of technology to enforce his edicts.
i was over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chinese and Japanese history is absolutely amazing. Long ago, when I was under the influence of public education we barely touched upon these histories or any Oriental history for that matter. Too bad so much of public educational history is propaganda ,but even that was minimal with regards to Oriental histories. I wonder why , if it wasn't intentional ? It's especially tragic that their ancient histories are simply bypassed for Western history, fortunately, one learns more through self education anyway !
LOL ,one thing Mao got right , he warned about the rise of the Capitol elitists. .. hahahaha...he must be rolling in his crypt.
Capitalist elitists replaced by Marxist elitist hypocrites.
You couldn't give me a trip to china.
Everyone has the government they deserve
could not agree more
John Lennon:"But If You Go Carrying Pictures Of Chairman Mao You Ain't Gonna Make It With Anyone Anyhow"That About Sums It Up For Me!🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅‼️
I Love Chinese Food🍜.
The only person
One can trust
Is one's self
Even then
Just in case
Before you go to sleep
switch on a tape recorder!
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When I studied at Beijing Foreign Studied University, I often met Isabel Crook in school, she was a kind and warm-hearted lady, though she was a communist, yet not a blind believer. In 1989, students got together in Tiananmen Square and protested against the corruption of the Government, Isabel and her husband David rode a tricycle with food and water to the Square and comforted those students. Now, Xi tried to imitate Mao's cult, propaganda consisted by countless publications and news boasts Xi, saying how great and perfect he is. Those who ever lived in Mao's China like Isabel are mostly dead, a plenty of Chinese teens are romanticizing Cultural Revolution and other Mao or CPC's dictatorships.
why did the mom literally leave her 3 month year old baby?
If anyone thinks such atrocities couldn't happen again, they better think again.
After watching part of the White House Correspondence dinner, my stomach rolled. Everyone in that room is partially responsible for all the pain and suffering their lies over the planned-demic caused.
The worst was the laughing about the raise of cost of everything.
Already happened and happening. Looting burning Antifa. Killer BLM.
I personally believe America had it coming after ruining millions of lives around the world.
It nearly happened with the storming of the White House a couple of years ago.
They'd have to leave the cities to see non-potemkin, but after 1962 at least you weren't stepping on corpses to get from point A to point B out in the undeveloped countryside (which is still undeveloped, unpaved roads and illiterate without electricity or plumbing in dirt-floored shacks. Not quite the tier-1 cities that the outside gets from the soft power projection.
Craziest shyt is he had all those folks take to the streets, protest, riot, etc.. but he would have their head if they did that against his regime.. ironic..
Mao knew his brand of communism wasn't working nearly so well as he had promised. People were becoming seriously dissatisfied, especially the young people, so he invented this sort of internal rebellion to direct them at other parts of society/people instead of at the government and himself. He brilliantly controlled and diverted his own opposition. Unfortunately, what was good for Mao remaining in power wasn't good for China and its people.
EVIL AT IT'S FINEST
It just shows that even the educated can be brainwashed.
Million & a half murdered. That’s some utopia…
Seriously? Never saw beggars in Austria? Then she was incredibly ignorant and naive. Sure, things were much better there in comparison, but beggars most definitely existed, as they do everywhere really. It's like where I live. People claim beggars, homeless etc don't exist here. I was one myself, sitting out in the open! It almost seems like wilful ignorance
She said in the 70s when she returned in Austrilia
@@mathieu8083 there were beggars there in the 70's mate
She's talking about Austria btw not Australia, although that fact is true for both. I assume you meant Austria though and it was just a typo/autocorrect
It was an interesting, but unnatural solution to the human condition, and thus, doomed to fail over and over.
People looking for religion substitute it for hero worship and political radicalism