The Sacrifice of Labor for Supreme Power

The Great Wall of China symbolizes a grandiose statement of supreme power similar to the pyramids, built with slave labor and enormous armies. A haunting story depicts the Great Wall being constructed from the skeletons of forced laborers. In the story, a newly married man is taken to do forced labor on the Great Wall, and his wife, upon bringing him warm clothes, finds out that he had died of exhaustion and cold, highlighting the immense sacrifice and tragedy involved in building such monumental structures.

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