Mao Zedong Part 1: Peasant’s Son, Communist Rebel
Real Dictators
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The Face That Mao Presents to the Peasants
Villagers are assembled by local cadres and forced to denounce a number of very carefully selected victims seen as tyrants or landlords. The party insists, or Mao rather insists, that the villagers eliminate these people themselves. "The pact between the people and the party is sealed quite literally in blood," says Jonathan Clemence.
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