Fifty years on from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which unleashed a decade of violence across the country and caused more than 1m deaths, China has reminded citizens it was a “total mistake”.
Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution, which he saw as a path towards absolute power, saw as many as 36m people persecuted, and up to 1.5m killed. At its vanguard were millions of young “red guards” who attacked the country’s institutions, including the party, and worshipped Mao as his personality cult took root.
Mao, who died in 1976, has since been judged “70 per cent correct and 30 per cent wrong”.
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