Mao Zedong Part 3: The Cultural Revolution
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The Red Guards' First Target Is Children's Teachers
Mao understood teenagers, particularly teenage boys very well. Mao said, you know, now they have no schools to go to. What do they do? They create violence. And in order to create this violence, Mao needed victims. He made the school teachers, the primary targets, to generate violence and atrocities from these teenagers. So it was a complete cynical calculation"
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