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Thank you for saying this.

The cultural revolution lead to witch hunts, thousands of deaths, many by torture, the termination of public education, total destruction of many cultural relics, art, and literature, and the embarrassment of many community leaders. Mao's economic policies which inevitably sparked the cultural revolution caused an estimated 40+ million deaths and one of the largest famines in recorded history.

I can't believe OP happily has no regrets given the present accessibility of information and a reflection period of over 50 years. It's hard to swallow while reading her responses on Mao's leadership and actions.

Did you starve with your Chinese colleagues as well? We're you taken to the streets, tied up and beaten until submissive then shamed in public.jpg)? Did you do time in the labor fields for months or years?

It's always amusing to watch Bloomberg GO in the mornings when they discuss China. To them and many of their guests Chinese government statistics have about the same credibility as a Wikipedia source written on a college paper in the mid 2000s.

You're right. I was eluding to the flight of leadership within the government inner circles after the Great Leap Forward.

The great sparrow campaign is my personal favorite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign