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Originally Posted by orange dave
The first thing everybody I've talked to mentions when I bring up Mao is the Cultural Revolution...though of course he did these things as well, they kind of get overshadowed in most peoples' minds.
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yes, when we talk here, culture revolution is also unavoidable to mention, at least when i reminded Chairman Mao, culture revolution came to mind quickly, my parents grew up from that terrible period, whole country experienced great calamity, gun fights, injustic execution, even some of our officals admired by us like Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping couldn't be lucky to escape from that disaster!
Just tell you some stories my parents told me, my mon ever told me that her family were very poor at that time ( poverty was common at that period), Chairman Mao's policy didn't allow trading privately which was defined as capitalism and anti-revolution, but mom's family needed money, so they made a few steamed-bread to sell secretly to earn very little money, one day when my mom sold the steamed bread, she was detected by the alleged revolutionaries( rebelled group), she just ran and they pursued after, eventually mom ran into a toilet and was caught, they tore all steamed bread to pieces and threw them to the urinal, luckly my mom was just a child at that time and they didn't punish her! Mom told me that just to ask me to value today's peaceful life.