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173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution

The Rest Is History

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What Is the Emotional Landscape of China?

Mao was able to create a transformative narrative with himself at the centre, which beguiled even his closest followers. It's difficult to get into what you might call the emotional landscape of how people felt and what they thought they were doing 50 years ago. The most prominent member of the gang of four is a jang ching madame mau, a former actress, a kind of homicidal evita. And she, she's a very bad personshe’s a very bad person. S tat the peron regime,. was responsible for quite few dethnees but not quite that many. I he the downfall of madame mawssene as a kind

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