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Mao Zedong Part 3: The Cultural Revolution

Real Dictators

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Liu Xiaoche's Speech to Mao

Liu Xiaoche was a hard man, otherwise he wouldn't have become sort of Mao's number two. But even he felt that Mao was too extreme. Liu went back to his home village and saw how the peasants were starved. And so Liu made the most courageous act in his life. At this party in Congress, he was going to make a speech which will truly put the cat amongst the pigeons.

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