@paulinepark.bsky.socialHua Guofeng had #MaoZedong's widow Jiang Qing & the other members of the #GangOfFour arrested #OnThisDay in 1976, bringing an end to the #CulturalRevolution that had torn #China apart for 10 years; sadly, #XiJinping has only made the #PRC even more totalitarian...
@coldwarpod.bsky.socialA Red Guard at 12. A soldier near the Soviet border at 15. Bing’s extraordinary Cold War story begins in Mao’s Beijing. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.
Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution
@coldwarpod.bsky.socialA Red Guard at 12. A soldier near the Soviet border at 15. Bing’s extraordinary Cold War story begins in Mao’s Beijing. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.
Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution
@coldwarpod.bsky.socialBing went from chanting #Mao’s words in Beijing to preparing for #Soviet tanks in #Manchuria. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.
Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution
@coldwarpod.bsky.socialBing went from chanting #Mao’s words in Beijing to preparing for #Soviet tanks in #Manchuria. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.
Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution
@addictedartgallery.bsky.social“No more tears; I will think upon a revenge.” ~ Mary, Queen of Scots
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"Revenge" by LV Yanjun
Modern China’s material appetite collides with the ideals of its past.
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#ContemporaryArt #CulturalRevolution #SocialCommentary #Revenge #VisualStorytelling
@coldwarpod.bsky.socialAt 12, Bing became one of #Mao’s Red Guards. Then the #CulturalRevolution turned on his family—and sent him towards the #Soviet frontier.
Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476
@coldwarpod.bsky.socialBing went from chanting #Mao’s words in Beijing to preparing for #Soviet tanks in #Manchuria. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.
Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution
@coldwarpod.bsky.socialBing went from chanting #Mao’s words in Beijing to preparing for #Soviet tanks in #Manchuria. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.
Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution
@soizo.bsky.social
@carolleisa.bsky.social#GreatChineseFamine ‘58-‘62 Failed Mao econ policies #GreatLeapForward caused massive nationwide famine. Extreme starvation forced people to eat tree bark dirt dead human flesh
And #GuangxiMassacre 🧵’67-‘68 Mass killings ritual cannibalism #CulturalRevolution #Politicalhatred
@thedailyhistorian.bsky.socialHowever, the full chain of events that led one of Mao’s closest allies from designated successor to a fatal flight across Mongolia remains contested.
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#LinBiao #MaoZedong #ChineseHistory #CulturalRevolution #ColdWar #History #China
@paulinepark.bsky.social#MaoZedong died #OnThisDay in 1976, bringing the disastrous #CulturalRevolution to an end after 10 years of civil war & chaos; he may have killed 40-80 million & the PRC dictatorship has only become more oppressive under Xi Jinping (image from the front page of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 9.10.26)
@paulinepark.bsky.social#MaoZedong died #OnThisDay in 1976, bringing the disastrous #CulturalRevolution to an end after 10 years of civil war & chaos; he may have killed 40-80 million Chinese — more than Hitler & Stalin combined — during his reign of terror; #China remains a dictatorship...
