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Mao Zedong Part 3: The Cultural Revolution

Real Dictators

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Mao's Cultural Revolution

Mao begins his new Cultural Revolution with an approach so vague, it can be molded at his whim to any purpose. When she got older, she became increasingly neurotic and increasingly hypochondriac. She began to control Mao or control a position within the party by feigning illnesses all the time. If there was anything she disagreed with, she'd say that he had given her connections. Dr Michael Lynch: 'It is this sheer extent of these campaigns that are meant to cower the population'

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