AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
3min chapter
Mao Zedong Part 1: Peasant’s Son, Communist Rebel
Real Dictators
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.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode