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s05e107 | From Maoist China to "Woke" America: The Living Memory of Xi Van Fleet

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The Cultural Revolution

When cultural revolution started I was in my second semester of first grade. Mao radicalized education because one of the other things is this really destroy all the institutions so one of which is the education system. So we used to have 12 years public education. We don't need that kind of education. It's useless so cut it in eight and now in ten. For two years I was doing the cultural revolution when school were closed just like the COVID closed two years. When school restarted we had no textbook because everything was contained and regarded as poison weeds for a whole year our textbook was the little red book.

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