a memoir of mao's manifesto
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This is a diary in the eyes of a professor during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It tells of his journey through the decade of disaster, and his hatred to the system as he learns the truth of Communism in his suffering.TRANSCRIPT
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
July 19th, 1966 – Mao Zedong’s Historic Swim
Mao swimming in the Yangtze in Wuhan
Poster commemorating Mao on his swim
July 1968 – Dispersing of the Red Guards
A poster expressing criticism towards the Red Guards
The once proud Red Guard is now no more
December 1968 – Down to the Countryside
Worker-Peasant-Soldiers being deployed out to the countryside
Propaganda poster encouraging youth to labor in the countryside
January 1972 – “Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius”
Poster criticizing Lin’s ideals
Children preform hard labor in criticism of Lin
September 9th, 1976 – Mao Zedong: Man, Not God
Tiananmen square, where only Mao’s portrait hangs now
Mao’s burial casket, in the mausoleum.
September 9th, 1976 – Mao Zedong: Man, Not God
Tiananmen square, where only Mao’s portrait hangs now
Mao’s burial casket, in the mausoleum.