How the Cultural Revolution shaped China's leaders today
Chinese Whispers
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The Cultural Revolution in China
Young people were able to travel across the country. A cultre revolution intervaling a railcard. It was a kind of tree intervailing for cultura revolutionaries. And that's why you can have other very senior leaders of the commonist party who could be the subject of struggles and beatings or public humiliations. But then that was the intention of martre don, that he was going to use the culture revolution, in part, to raise a new generation of revolutionaries who are beholden to him, but not to the party.
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