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1: Live in a cave

How to become a dictator

CHAPTER

The Great Cannibalism of the Cultural Revolution

Xi is the son of a blacklisted official. His father was once a revolutionary hero. Xi talks about his cave years as rough but wholesome. He says he carried 100 kg of wheat along three miles of mountain road without even switching shoulders. But Jingxing, who also went to the countryside during this time, paints a very different picture.

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