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Mao Zedong Part 3: The Cultural Revolution

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The Trauma of the Cultural Revolution

In my school, there was tremendous violence. My headmaster couldn't stand it. And he was trying to commit suicide by slashing his neck. A gardener in the school, I think he had been a nationalist officer. So he was singled out and beaten to death. With the teachers decimated, Mao turns his attention to his envoys of terror themselves,. The adults have been purged. Now it's time for the youth to turn on each other.

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