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The Early Life of Chairman Mao With Brandon Gauthier

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The Delusions of Heroism in the Culture Revolution

When we talk about the notion of power itself and the implementation of ideas, it becomes a very dangerous moment for those who would challenge him. Ah, if if we look at apundawa and the aftermath of the great lya forward unfolding. And so when we're talking about pongright? We're talking about a famed general from the civil war. Who will challenge mow over his treatment of women? At the height of his power and say, you act like emperor with a harem. That goes really poorly for pung. He will be relentlessly persecuted in the culture revolution. Or perhaps maybe i we talk about this point of the notion of his delusions of heroism, what happens

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