Many people, most people, don't really want to talk about it. And what fascinated me was that there were these people who didn't necessarily want totalk about it, but I think felt they had to. There are people who still think the cultural revolution was right,. The only really thing that really went wrong with it was that it ended. But Mao was quite right to sort of believe in this purity.

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