Inside Mao's China | Free Documentary History

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Inside Mao’s China: The unique personal stories of our protagonists combined with rare historical footage will give a new perspective on one of the 20th century's most controversial utopia. Inside Mao’s China tells for the first time about this period of recent Chinese history from the perspective of the small number of Western eyewitnesses, who were there at the time. These witnesses of history, cultures and political systems are among the few who have experienced the Cultural Revolution from the inside and are able to share their experiences without fear. Nevertheless, until now they had preferred to remain silent. Watch 'How Britain Started the Arab-Israeli Conflict' here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kInJpqSLnd94ick Available Worldwide except Germany and France #history #freedocumentary

[@gustavoemannueldeangolasil243]

What than is an hipocrosy already who to suport government communist chinese went banks North American .

[@chanalex8358]

@@gustavoemannueldeangolasil243 Mao is the great leader of China and international communism . Long live Mao zedong~~~~~~~

[@gustavoemannueldeangolasil243]

@@chanalex8358 A killing in mass because to be jackass ,die milion of your own people.Mao lie in live and after of your death in nothing he live.

[@gustavoemannueldeangolasil243]

@@chanalex8358 long live in lie that is all the thruth.

[@gustavoemannueldeangolasil243]

Mao zedong not represent an great leader but cruel Man vagabond who murder in Name of Power.

[@sl5693]

A cruel period of no dignity, no humanity, no grace but only chaos, violence and humiliation. One of the darkest time in human's history. I was a witness in China.

[@whythelongface64]

Best time to be alive ☺️

[@sl5693]

@@yigesbg8145 Sad.

[@anarchorepublican5954]

...lets just say No ! ...to Marxism- in all its postmodern forms ...before its too late....

[@jameseverett4976]

She says " it was freedom. We could run all over the place, and criticize people". Sure, as long as you criticize the right people, and not the communists. Idiots always think 'freedom' means freedom for them alone.

[@MrNajibrazak]

it is going to happen again.

[@shrimpanzee001]

The terrifying thing is that many of those who perpetrated this awful philosophy were able to justify their actions as being morally right. If you believe you're in the right, nothing is off the table, no matter how cruel, vicious, sadistic and evil - it won't feel that way at the time.

[@ComradeEmil1312]

Exactly. Like the 100 million natives killed, and the enslavement of African and Irish Americans.

[@gearaddictclimber2524]

And thus is the logic of free market capitalism. Millions homeless, starving, or shipped off to wars isn’t immoral, it’s just the way the market goes 🙄We need not pretend the way we are in the West today is any better.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

That's a fanatic! Fanatics believe the ends justify the means.

[@aww773]

No one is the villain of their own story

[@gearaddictclimber2524]

@@ericsierra-franco7802 Don’t be too hasty there, my friend. You use the “ends justify the means” ethical approach, called Utilitarianism, rather often in your daily life. You’re faced between two decisions, so you do a cost-benefit analysis so to speak - “what’re the pros and cons to each decision?”, “Which will make me happier? Reach my goal?” - and you let your end (whatever goal it may be, maybe it’s saving time or money) justify the means (the action). In extreme cases, sure, it may fail to treat people how we feel they ought to be treated, but it’s a useful way of making rational decisions.

[@Bill-em9zn]

The entire country was insane. Now this country is on the way to that state again.

[@padmelotus]

Which country?

[@alexzhangdragonn3438]

Lol your country has always been chaotic and causes chaos all over the world

[@jjc4232]

I agree! The U.S needs to be put back in its place. They have never stop fighting wars since WW2.

[@typicalracist5788]

RIP Chairman Mao May Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt rest in hell

[@padmelotus]

Are you one of those people who thinks that the wanna-be dictator; Trump, who hates democracy, was somehow the second coming, but that Biden is somehow a Marxist?

[@Gandalf914]

“People don’t have ideologies. Ideologies have people.” Poor Paul. His parents were in prison and they still believed in Mao: perhaps the most evil human being to have ever lived.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Herod the Great

[@llieu5642]

Also the red guards were mostly born in 40s to 50s at that time meaning those people are still mostly alive, though they would be 70-ish years old. And a lot of those old people that lived through the era or actually were red guards were demoralized. Absolutely crazy and unimaginable. The economy and education stalled for 10 years, culture and moral values were destroyed.

[@anarchorepublican5954]

...the Red Guards weren't victims...they were the storm troopers...Marxism is always like that ...☭=💀

[@explorerofunknownworlddept6232]

Maybe not what you imagined and perceived. Are you a complete 1000% "Manchurian Candidate"?

[@meinanfang]

A lot damages have caused by the generation during the Cultural Revolution in China. They lacked formal education and morals, yet they still hold power today. Their incompetence and corruption continue to harm China.

[@stevieblunder4566]

When you're on "the right side of history", no atrocity is unjustifiable.

[@judica8873]

That was really, really good. This doc, less than 60 minutes, is the most deeply & fully comprehensive I've ever seen on the subject.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and that’s some recommendation 😀

[@chanalex8358]

Mao is the great leader of China and international communism . Long live Mao zedong~~~~~~~

[@pansaltman]

@@chanalex8358 Watch the film, learn history, read books think if you can!

[@chanalex8358]

@@pansaltman try to think like a human

[@pansaltman]

@@chanalex8358 You want me to love the cruelst dictator in the history? Thank you.

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

"Mao showed us a very rare case in which cruelty, selfishness, hypocrisy and shamelessness were all found in the same person. Although he always tried to cover his actions with the most beautiful words, I don’t think he ever had any moral principles. Never, _ever,_ will I forgive Mao for the crimes he committed against the Chinese nation." ―Ding Xueliang, professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

[@rickylow1655]

He wanted to remain emperor as his position, and a God, as his status. And he sacrificed an entire nation for his ambition.

[@tianwong152]

@@rickylow1655 He deserves to be revered as a god.

[@McIntyreBible]

I have no idea why many people in the West were so fascinated and followed the ideology of Mao! his philosophy was one of supreme narcissism and self-protection. One of his well-publicized statements to prove this is the following: "Whatever I am most afraid of someone doing to me, I will do it to him first."

[@vvieites001]

Absolutely psychotic

[@GrubworldLinearMusicChannel]

What is exactly narcissistic of wanting to get rid of landlords and party officials that start to act like bosses?

[@SalamHerbs-db5nt]

​@GrubworldLinearMusicChannel its kind of narcissistic to not let the slaves have food

[@brentsrx7]

But what you say offends my gender. It is violence against my feelings.

[@brentsrx7]

What you say offends my Progressive gender queer. You must be banned.

[@scholae9199]

The ideological blindness, innocence of youth, gullibility, and naivete of some of the interviewees show it all. This is the price of being so idealistic over something you didnt actually understand when youre young. My 2 uncles were survivors of both Mao's catastrophic plans. They escaped in 1970, one the worst years of Cultural Revolution. They were wandering several countries from 1973-1979 before settling in Singapore. Up to this day, everytime they encountered people, mostly youngsters, who hold pro-communist/leftist views, they immediately chimed them up with direct perspective of living under the worst of communist system, Mao's China. It could still happen today as many idealistic youngsters, feeling so self-righteous, self-declared socialists, self-declared anti capitalists, never trully live under such an oppressive system. Socialism and communism are for the gullibles and the naives, that is the youngsters

[@ebioweifekumo3335]

Whatever you have in your heart is what you project to the world, is it worth it to become a monster battling a monster?

[@r3fus32d13]

the great leap forward was thw LAST major famine that China has had. Use your brain a bit to understand what that means for a country starving for centuries.

[@DmoneyS44]

I had family suffer under mao too. Socialists oppress their own, capitalists oppress others. Feel free to pick your poison but get off of your high horse if youre going to do that

[@scholae9199]

@@DmoneyS44 capitalism has several types if you wanted to play this out lmao yet youre able to comment in this vid is due to capitalism, am i correct ?? Everyone who subscribed to Google account is immediately tied to capitalist system. The one that makes a difference is whether you use your damn capitalist opportunity or not

[@DmoneyS44]

@@scholae9199 Ya capitalism has several types in theory. No major power practices a kind that does oppress other people. Nordic countries are pretty close to a social democratic form of capitalism that doesnt oppress others

[@cooljam2008]

Thank you for your efforts to have taken so many photos and video and disclosed them.

[@MichaelSHartman]

Thanks for the documentary. More people should see it.

[@toniheikkila5607]

The typical mistake, giving absolute power to one actor. No matter if its communist, fascist, left or right, capitalist or socialist. The so called communist regime have in some cases been absolutely antithetical to marxism, and in other cases mostly. See North Korea, an autocratic, racist, ultranationalistic absolute monarchy (well actually necrocracy) that says its democracy. Sometimes people say things that are not true, that may surprise some. No matter what Kim says, North Korea has nothing to do with democracy or marxism.

[@TheLookaas]

Stalin and mao were facists with a red coat of paint. Absolute power in the hands of the state and the dictator.

[@Booyaka9000]

I guess that makes Trump a dollar store fascist with a thick coat of orange bronzer. Say what you will about the dreadfulness of Stalin and Mao (and they were utterly repugnant), but they were organised, strong (mostly), and thorough. They weren't weak, trust fund losers like President MushroomDick J. Tiny Hands. I mean, they had tens of millions killed, and he only managed 600k!

[@RandoBurner]

@@TheLookaas And communism is...not absolute power in the hands of the state and the dictator?

[@corneliuscapitalinus845]

@thelookass Stalin and Mao were not Fascists lol. Fascism doesn't just mean authoritarianism/dictatorship and/or totalitarianism. Marxism espouses a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. A class dictatorship. The proletarian dictatorship is held to have the right and responsibility to sweep away all that falls on "the wrong side of history", being the vehicle for (the realisation of) Progress. The peasantry, the merchants & bourgois townsmen, reactionary martial classes & aristocracy, the clergy... These classes are to be dictated to by the Proletariat. The Peasant inclusion was advocated by some from early on, but was by no means a given. It was practicality and circumstance that saw the revolutionaries acknowledge the "revolutionary potential" of the peasantry in the Russian Empire, and in the Asian countries/central & south America, the societies were agrarian peasant societies, so Mao too had to adjust to the "the material conditions". Many of the old timer orthodox Marxists felt Lenins tendency to be heretical, and Mao's was Leninism applied to a non proletarian society. It's pretty apparent that all manner of horrors were built into this Political-Philosophy, and the divisions and divergence in tendencies are aswell apparent, with all claiming the others are heretical and not true Marxists. None of this is Fascist.

[@gabemendoza1052]

Well, China improved under Xi Jinping😉

[@JAKBOT3000]

Some people never learn.

[@ReiGon-kt8ky]

Just like some chavista friends i got... Next thing you know they are crossing the jungle to Colombia because the economy in Venezuela is collapsed.. I threat them like mindless drug addicts now

[@patriciapalmer1377]

The Great Leap Forward and the destruction of millions. A madman and a people living in a nightmare.

[@s1050]

I think you’re a CIA bot. Mao Zedong was one of greatest leaders of the 20th century. He liberated the Chinese people from imperialism and feudal slavery.

[@XYZ-yc6ci]

@@s1050 and brought his own slavery! What a hero!

[@BellTowerCh]

@@s1050 you are either blind or WuMao under CPC. I lived there under Mao, we suffered and choked by CPC control. Millions of Chinese people died from Mao insane ruling. CPC is still evil for the free world.

[@Harthorn]

@@s1050 Who did he liberate Chinese people from? KMT? They are also Chinese. It's a civil war. Feudal slavery? Is communism slavery one cut above? Deng Xiaoping allowed capitalism into China, that is the only reason why Chinese are not starving around every street. Capitalism saved China, not Mao not CCP.

[@Harthorn]

@jolly wong So it is evil to be a landowner? Now nobody is landowner in China, only the CCP and their red 2nd generation. Shall we destroy these new landowners? SB, don't open your mouth if you don't know what you are talking about.

[@djohanrady]

This is a great documentary and important, too. Important lesson to be heeded by many people in the future.

[@auggieeast]

You have to wonder if all these young tankies around now ever watch history shows like this.

[@Maus_122]

Yes they do quite often in fact

[@Maus_122]

If it weren't for these historical takes on history they wouldn't be on the left. It's a case of why these terrible things happened. And why it became to be known as a 'failure of communism'.

[@patriciapalmer1377]

God, I remember the horror of this !! It was a mass murdering travesty. That awful Little Red Book and the wholesale destruction of Chinese culture. How could anyone in their right mind lionize Mao at that time, or ever ?

[@borninvincible]

Do you have the same disgust for the war crimes your country commits daily around the globe and is funded with your tax dollars?

[@johnbrowning8785]

This is why the CCP must destroy Taiwan, it reminds them of all the culture they destroyed in the name of their 70% correct God.

[@johnbrowning8785]

@@borninvincibleI reserve that disqust for the Wumao.

[@humansarecrazybeing5730]

@@johnbrowning8785 lol colonisers are known for lying, stealing and playing divide and rule policy 😂😂 now do the math and look at your country and your ancestors history 😂

[@johnbrowning8785]

@@humansarecrazybeing5730LoL, let he who is without sin . . .

[@rubylaser8601]

Those Westerners were fooled by Mao and CCP.

[@Elys-Ian]

So this is one of the examples of what Dr, Jose Rizal meant about "Young people are the hope of our country."

[@i_crime8738]

Fabulous documentary. Very interesting hearing from the immigrant perspective. Well made. Thank you for making it free!

[@robertshelton2344]

That woman left her baby behind to visit Maos China? Great parenting 👍

[@stephenpoole5331]

Yeah, kind of surprised at that. After all, I'm sure some daycare center in her Chinese Communist Utopia could have looked after her kid. Remember: it takes a commune to raise a child!!

[@explorerofunknownworlddept6232]

You don't understand the revolutionaries who would give up everything in lives to their ideas and devotions. Prior to 1949, there were many slogans such as "beheaded not a matter, only my ...ism is true!", many of them could yell loudly when facing the gun point by the Nationalist Party: "long live Chinese Communist!", or "long live Soviet!", or "long live Chairman Mao!" etc. It's truly of their strong beliefs and faiths that made of them daring to satisfy own lives w/o blinking an eyelash. After 1949's revolution, many couples lived apart in different cities or country sides, of far away, only could meet once a year during the holiday season for a few days. It's all been "educated" as devotion on the revolution and progress thoughts, to sacrifice your own personal interests. So this French lady in 1992 was a fervent Maoist that's why she could eagerly want to seize the opportunity to see a Mao's China especially in this cultural revolution period which excited so many western countries' progress youths back then, by setting aside her 3 month baby.

[@brianarbenz7206]

She left her baby with the baby's father. It's not like she left her on a park bench. The child had two parents. Lots of parents have traveled abroad for temporary periods. You make it sound like a crime.

[@anthonyabela2328]

both replies clearly don't have any children themselves, a child's first year is very reliant on their mother, she left her child for 2 months also not just a couple of weeks, your children should always come first. understandable if it was some sort of family emergency but really to explore political agenda.... sad times

[@ConservativeSatanist666]

America is following uncomfortably close to following a similar pattern. Instead of Mao it's Identity politics

[@vvieites001]

Y’all are delusional

[@christinevillanueva54]

So true.

[@samcarter2371]

This documentary solidified my assertion of communism being a religion.

[@bdotjerz]

All political systems are religions to zealots

[@seafoam6119]

in a godless society, they find new idols to worship

[@vader3669]

Try looking into anarchism. We don’t like tankie communists either

[@twentysecondcenturywoman]

Ofc it is. Russia did the same thing when they were in communism. The government was seen as the religion.

[@davidjackson9680]

@@seafoam6119 tbh if religion was more prevalent it would’ve probably been worse

[@allgood6760]

I was looking at The Little Red Book recently... now there is a "new era" with their President. 🇨🇳

[@gustavoemannueldeangolasil243]

He went a serial killer because went more wrong who good for your own people.

[@detectiveofmoneypolitics]

Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is following this informative content cheers Frank 😊

[@clanpsi]

Man, people were dumb AF back then. - reads contemporary news... - sees 'woke' Twitter threads... Ah.... right.........

[@equationinc.8089]

Has anything changed now?

[@MrDo0bie]

People still aren't aware of what happends around them.

[@Wib0]

History repeats itself. When you see the repetition, get out of it's way.

[@coffeemakir1977]

Always blows my mind Stalin/Lennon or Maoists in the West talk about how oppressive our gov is

[@daniellee6484]

History is repeating itself now…

[@dennyli9339]

Youth uprising...in one way or other..

[@HouseflyIncorporated]

Trump flags are the new Mao portraits

[@manatteegiggles7743]

@@dennyli9339 To whol and by whom for what reasons??

[@diligentone-six2688]

This Comment aged well.

[@MrNajibrazak]

Cultural Revolution 2.0 is around the corner.

[@jimmason7556]

I love the people acting like Mao wasn't always a psychopath. If you read about his youth and his rise you will find he was always a narcissist bent on power, who abused and discarded women once they were no longer convenient to him, and had no "friend" he would not betray or murder to further his own power. Mao was never a sincere or good man with "fair" beliefs as some of the dolts in this video claim. He was always, ALWAYS a murderous psychopath.

[@Ruda-n4h]

Well said.

[@dixztube]

Exactly these folks are delusional. But I guess all cult members are

[@dixztube]

People like the French lady should be the last folks trying to figure out the best society worry about fixing your own life lady.

[@rbeeler81]

European bougie Maoist are the worst. If they weren’t so clueless I would call them diabolical.

[@osiris_blanche]

i can see why my late father hated this man to bits.

[@thereisnospoon277]

You’re father sounded like a smart man.

[@osiris_blanche]

​@@thereisnospoon277 Although a man few words, yes, my dad was a brilliant man. :) I always wondered why he had nothing positive to say about Mao. Apparently his mother was arrested by the red army when he was 6 & never saw her again. And this documentary (among many) gave me better insights.

[@danielabatabogdanov8586]

Got a feeling that some of these former maoists still have some form of infinity judging by the way they speak about it and their almost proud expression.

[@dixztube]

It’s so insane lol

[@roriksteader]

Sad that their are still people who idolize Mao

[@roriksteader]

@@tianzhou1083 I don't remember mentioning the US 🤔

[@grdnzrnic]

This reminds me of sanctuary cities, wide open borders, “wokeness”, climate lies, and similar cultural rot

[@trj1442]

Another excellent episode. Thankyou.

[@PFWoody488]

And now Xi wants to be the new Mao. He even has his own little book of his "thoughts". How depressing.

[@moosemaster96]

Its really quite amazing that such an economic powerhouse of a nation was born from such a hellish nightmare of a period.

[@xdzhou-f3t]

作为中国人，喔可以很明确都告诉你，没有毛泽东，没有文革，中国人的物质和精神都不会发展，中国之后也不会创造经济奇迹，毛泽东之后的中国领导人背叛了他，他们让资本家和官僚重新统治了中国，在毛泽东的时代，中国的工人和农民都是有尊严的，而现在，工人和农民都是社会的底层，而且活的非常困难

[@chriskay3825]

the reality is that, peaceful outside but chaotic inside.

[@thereisnospoon277]

Seriously? Red China participated in the Korean War of 1950-53. It was constantly sniping with the USSR. In 1979 it invaded Vietnam only to have it’s a&$ handed to it.

[@tanksouth]

I am in Asia now. I am from the USA. I have been here some years. Believe me. This could happen again.

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

That is why the 2nd Amendment was installed. The Founding Fathers predicted it. We so happen by far have the largest 'armed' population ever of at least 80 million with over 300 million guns.

[@goodnightmyprince6734]

Moa Zadong didn't believe in brushing his teeth. His teeth was apparently green.

[@lindokuhlehlatshwayo9215]

🤣🤣🤣

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Saint Apollonia The Patron Saint Of Dentistry

[@embossed64]

Shiny happy people holding hands.

[@NickPenlee]

China? Oh, sorry; I thought I was watching modern day, covid Australia!

[@MichaelSHartman]

Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis

[@DanGabriel09]

Bullshet..

[@DT-wp4hk]

Correct. Same scvm behind it

[@SalamHerbs-db5nt]

I Know some people who have fled Australia and taken refuge in places like Mexico. They call it AusJAILia.

[@gabrielvazquez1691]

Why is it that movements like this, throughout the world and since the 20th century to today, always want to have a strong grab on university students when starting their movements?

[@TeamOT]

If anyone knows LeBron James here, please forward this video to him.

[@ReiGon-kt8ky]

Send him to my abandoned apartment in Caracas.. For him to have the maduro revolutionary package

[@bluesky6985]

He's silenced by his handlers and he doesn't want to end up like Kobe Bryant 😊

[@Socialdecay864]

He’s one of the most ignorant and at the same time ultra confident in his beliefs athlete I’ve ever seen. The text book definition of delusion. Or he’s the ultimate hypocrite. Or, he’s dumber than a box of rocks.

[@kabirdas2786]

@@bluesky6985what?

[@bluesky6985]

@@kabirdas2786 What I said. Kobe got out of line and was sacrificed.

[@PM2024-]

At what point will western cinema begin to make films about this horrific period? China’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution is hardly ever the subject of big movies 🍿 Amazing movies are made about the dark realities of atrocities like The Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the Rwandan Genocide, etc. Is this because there is so much fear of angering the Chinese Communist Party? 🇨🇳

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

that’s a good question. I don’t think it’s that. Maybe because it’s difficult to research? Not enough access to witness accounts?

[@edmundlubega9647]

Current president of China, Xi Jinping was also victimised during this period

[@Harthorn]

@@Ormagoden94 yes indeed

[@NoOneLikesVegans]

Too bad he survived

[@orangekitty8974]

Idk why she wishes she looked different, she was full of beauty back in her early adulthood and she still had all that beauty at the time of this video's production.😮

[@larrylarry1368]

Long time ago, I have met with a couple who had experienced the craziness of that era.

[@xiyangyang9]

More craziness, could not to be known, coz those were already dead.

[@張美惠-f9z]

很多年後,兩岸可以探親,我也遇到那個瘋狂時代的夫妻. 我的親戚是黑五類. 還好對我們很親切, 我們也幫他們蓋房子. 3-40年前,大陸真是一窮二白, 儘努力賺錢生活.

[@Carlosortiz-yh8uk]

Thank the stars my family migrated to the U.S. 😅😊🎉❤

[@medietasnonnocere5685]

Cult of personality, emotionally-aroused mobs, anti-authority, anti-education ------------ why does that sound familiar?

[@equationinc.8089]

🇺🇸USA

[@Nasil-Yapmali]

Turkey🇹🇷

[@BrillMonkey]

The vaccine cult?

[@gabrielarchange4680]

@@BrillMonkey The woke neo-marxists culture warriors

[@brentsrx7]

University professors kove this guy for some reason. Its truly terrifying.

[@NoRunArea1988]

The reason is because they're Marxist and they cannot be trusted.

[@nancysmith9189]

China, a great and crazy nation where the people are super smart and super crazy. I cannot understand them even though I was one of them.

[@Senzotan]

Then study communism.

[@JosephMitchellMitchell]

And MILLIONS DIED. SO CHARMING

[@kazkk2321]

Mao and Stalin were too closely linked. I still don’t understand why Mao had to fallow Stalin that closely into a great leap forwards.

[@anarchorepublican5954]

...because Marxist are always arrogant, and ignorant, power mad, quasi-religious, fanatics...all efforts need to be exhausted to keep such leftists from the reins of power...

[@jameseverett4976]

It was actually a great leap into starvation, death, catastrophy, murder and poverty. But ti did wonders for mao's ego.

[@dickyhoey]

Because he didn’t know how to run a government and needed to divert his people thru chaos.

[@frankng4574]

Never closely linked. Mao is a nationalist and never close to Russia.

[@henrikgustav2294]

Wow this is interesting

[@oktobre7]

Vraiment bien. Un excellent documentaire.

[@giancarlocerza9159]

Bien sure

[@xiaotong197]

这部纪录片的很多镜头我真的是第一次看到。尤其是那个王爷府的走廊，上面都贴着大字报。

[@3BodyProblem]

excellent episode waiting for more good content

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Thank you! More coming always Wednesdays and Fridays.

[@saloneman3768]

Great documentary

[@chaosshion]

应配中英双语字幕，这么好的视频要让更多人看懂。

[@narakliemann8365]

Eu queria muito entender mais é uma lástima só falo português

[@unclesuworld]

I grew up in the cultural revolution in China, it was crazy time 😂😅. I m writing my memoir.

[@dibrentley7915]

it seems the more left of politics we get we seem to lose our sense of right from wrong.

[@SepticToxicShark]

I don't think that's mutually exclusive, as it turns out what is right and what is wrong has always been changing. Just 50 years ago it was considered right to segregate races in the US. I believe it's through discourse and challenging our existing beliefs that we are better able refine our sense of morality.

[@thebrainsurgeonotto6224]

When there was genocide, national tragedy, the holocaust too (1st and 2nd WW) Hungary got dragged into it by the right.

[@firewizzard86]

​@thebrainsurgeonotto6224 right wing socialism 😂

[@vvieites001]

Lol have you seen the authoritarianism and nationalism of the far right?

[@dibrentley7915]

@@vvieites001 Well I dont think there is anything wrong with nationalism and authoritarianism of the far right no... i havent. But then what is far right these days? I just want the govt to leave me alone, let me be responsible for myself. I will happily pay my taxes so long as they dont waste it and they clamp down on corruption in politics.

[@Oregon123]

My parents and all of our relatives were deported out of china because of that mass killer.

[@melo-tc6im]

the darkest time not just for chinese but for the humankind too. unfortunately we are seeing the same disaster happening again under Xi.

[@ziggyc3004]

28:34 We now know it was Kissinger, not Nixon, who met with Mao first.

[@Chaosladder-v8h]

Had it not been for youtube suttile , I would have thought Mao declares Kong-fu revolution...

[@psegre]

Wow, Chinese history as told by a few Germans and Americans. Interesting, but maybe next time get the perspective of someone who’s actually Chinese, that might help.

[@albertdiot8723]

Thank you for sharing the truth Mao period. For sure it was only for ideology ..from URSS and reinforce his own power ...nothing so much about citizens

[@ooxx4836]

这是一场人为的灾难，责任只在于毛，也在于所有积极参与的人。 今天，在中国，类似的运动正在形成。 我替我的国家感到悲哀。

[@ranjithperimpulavil2950]

I, as an Indian, love China. But I fear Xi Jin Ping's China is a dangerous dragon.

[@dixztube]

Stay strong brother

[@shoob7979]

I guarantee almost no one considers just one more horrific effect Mao may have had on you or your family through his cowardice manipulative behavior. Like the despicable woman saying she chose to leave her daughter with her father in the industrial city in order to follow Mao out into the farming towns because as she said "of course I wanted to follow the Red party there as I was Maoist and we loved him!!" Basically abandoned her child behind the lies Zedong fed them and its wild their infatuation with him

[@E.......]

The woke revolution that is occurring in the West has many similarities to Mao's cultural revolution.

[@scottsmith491]

My thoughts exactly. Brainwashing young people. Changing the names of Schools, tearing down statues. Sounds just like the America of today.

[@stalindeathdeath7421]

If only

[@barbararenovato2645]

That is why we need a US regime change to get rid of the corrupt woke Biden administration and did mantle the radical leftist socialists ideology of the Democratic Fascist party and renew the anti war movement!

[@Maus_122]

Yeah I think this guy needs to work to work for the daily wire. We got a far right winger in out hands here

[@thereisnospoon277]

@@stalindeathdeath7421”If only”…what?

[@samaxwell88]

PTCBMF Studios CEO was here

[@lucasglowacki4683]

Individual liberty is the only natural state of being. It’s not perfect and not everyone wins…but that’s reality. You cannot corral people into a utopia, many have tried and millions have died…only to say “that was not the right way to do it, my way will succeed!”. Sorry…wrong. I was born in the eastern bloc and seen it first hand.

[@Ksr3740]

The whole idea of communism of economic equality simply contradicts human nature

[@holymolythejabroni9040]

Literally no leftist in America wants to emulate China or the eastern bloc. Keep tilting at those windmills though.

[@minmax5]

@@Ksr3740 Communism has literally nothing to do with "economic equality". Marx outright rejects the concept of equality as a bourgeoise notion. Have you actually read any Marx?

[@explorerofunknownworlddept6232]

@@minmax5 no, she's not absolutely. She's from China, highly possible. Many Chinese people could be "Manchurian Candidates" in China, then went or came to the western, to be easily becoming another type of "Manchurian Candidate". Said "many", but not in absolute everyone. Many don't like to read.

[@giuliaradice3740]

Is there someone who knows whether Irina had exhibitions of her photos?

[@craigfazekas3923]

If you go carryin' pictures of Chairman Mao- you ain't gonna make it with anyone, anyhow.- John Lennon 🚬😎

[@tianwong152]

I carry pictures of Mao all the time. My fellow Chinamen love me.

[@Will-ex2wr]

This is a good documentary.

[@DmoneyS44]

My family is from china. One side from the countryside and the other from Beijing. Beijing has always been great but for the countryside, things went really well after the civil war but great leap forward and cultural revolution were huge mistakes. Communism is a wartime ideology, not good for peace time. Vietnam, angola, and china after mao applied the lessons correctly by using communism to win wars, but then easing up and allowing liberalization during peace time

[@gaconc1]

Vietnam had famine and hyperinflation for 15 years after the war

[@blondezeke6640]

@@gaconc1 man i sure hope the US didn't purposefully bomb farm lands that would be evil and the US isn't evil lol

[@tabo01]

@@gaconc1 Russia also had famine.

[@ywilliamusim]

You don't know about China's Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution began in 1962, and the three-year period of natural disasters from 1958 to 1962 had the highest number of deaths. The greater reason was that some provincial and national agricultural officials, in order to present good data and flatter others, led to a 'exaggeration trend'. Falsifying data, Mao Zedong quickly discovered this situation. He was born as a farmer landlord and organized the Hunan Farmers' Association in 1920. How could he not know how many kilograms of grain could be produced per acre of land? However, leaders cannot fully organize a state of national fanaticism, and ultimately the mistakes of the main leaders in each province led to many people starving to death. The Cultural Revolution was a time when Jiang Qing and Lin Biao's group seized power and attacked opponents under Mao Zedong's title. Mao Zedong initially accepted this situation because he discovered that China was practicing revisionism, and Khrushchev attacked Stalin's policies at the Soviet Congress, overthrowing Stalin's agricultural and industrial policies and allowing individual farmers. This is inconsistent with Mao Zedong's recognition of Marxism, which led to the Sino Soviet debate. Mao Zedong was always afraid that China would follow the path of revisionism like the Soviet Union, adopt capitalism under the guise of socialism after bureaucratic seizure of power, and have big conglomerates control the national economy. So the Cultural Revolution was launched to sweep out all officials who followed the capitalist line and 'beat them all to the point of killing all the ghosts and monsters'. Jiang Qing and Lin Biao took this opportunity to shape Mao Zedong into a deity, and Mao Zedong repeatedly opposed shaping himself into a deity in meetings. All history can only be commented on by understanding the background behind it. 对的，老外们你们搜索一下‘七五干校’就知道为什么要文化大革命了（That's right, foreigners. Just search for the 'Seventh Five Year Cadre School' and you'll know why there was）

[@BoydXplorer]

Great history about Mao's China. Thanks for sharing.

[@grantbrendon]

Sad thing is there will never be a perfect society..humans are not perfect.

[@MrRanDumb2]

A Democratic Republic system with capitalism is the best for imperfect people.

[@vvieites001]

@@MrRanDumb2nope. Social democracy aka regulated capitalism is. The US is actually a mixed economy with socialist systems in place, not purely capitalistic, which would be exploitative and a disaster

[@heberpelagio7161]

The "success" of Stalin - the man who used to boast about having conducted the U.S.S.R. "from the plow to the atomic bomb in just a generation" - compared to Gorbachev's failure shows that a socialist economy is unable to function with a minimum of efficiency without requiring a massive dose of political violence. In an attempt to reform a decadent regime, Gorbachev moved faster with the process of economic opening in the hope of removing the predictable resistance that the Soviet bureaucracy would create to economic reform measures, as thorough proof with the failed attempt. coup d'état in August 1991 - which ended up precipitating the final crisis of socialism and the dissolution of the USSR itself Its Chinese parallel - Deng Xiaoping - adopted a logic diametrically opposed to that of Gorbachev: it prioritized the achievement of economic prosperity (adopting in practice capitalism) precisely to delay any attempt at political opening, as was evident with the acceleration of the economy. reforms after the Tiananmen Square massacre. It is important to note that it was Karl Marx himself who, in his Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, discerned the scenario in which the conditions for a social revolution process are formed, describing it as follows: “At a certain stage in its development, the material productive forces of society contradict existing production relations or - which is only their legal expression - with the property relations in which they have been active until then. From the forms of development of the productive forces, these relations are transformed into fetters of them. So, it is a time of social revolution. ' * By rejecting the pursuit of profit maximization as an instrument to stimulate innovation, socialist countries ended up condemning themselves to obsolescence. Thus, they lost the chance to incorporate the productivity gains made possible by technological progress. That is why the capitalist countries managed to provide a greater rise in the standard of living of their population, even without pursuing the egalitarian ideal. Therefore, until the “final crisis of socialism” (to paraphrase K. Marx's own definitions once again), it was only a matter of time. But religious fanatics do not give up on their faith, even against the indisputable proof of the facts, which completely refute it! * Reproduced according to MARX, K. Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, organized by Florestan Fernandes and published under the title K. Marx: Theory and historical process of the social revolution, In Marx & Engels, Great Social Scientists Collection, History, vol. 36. São Paulo: Ática, 1983. p. 232. Commemorative edition of the centenary of Karl Marx's death

[@mysticmama_3692]

It couldn't be that people aren't cattle who are so easy convinced that what they are seeing with their own eyes is a lie simply because their government says so....of course it couldn't be that simple. Bottom line, communism NEVER works, and it NEVER will. It requires a certain amount of deception to the public and a compliance from that public to adhere to whatever radical view is being pushed by the powers that be. Thing is....people aren't all the same, they're individuals. Some are much smarter than others and realize when they are being lied to, and then in turn inform their fellow citizens who dont see the deception right away. People want freedom above all...not to belong to a government, and they know what real freedom is, and it's not the lies spewed out by communists. As long as people still have a will of their own, and a desire to survive, not just physically but spiritually....communism will never be successful. It is government theory that does not take basic human nature into account.

[@stalindeathdeath7421]

Tldr

[@davidjackson9680]

You do realize you refused to use context at all

[@brianarbenz7206]

This is an overzealous sermon against socialism. Capitalist nations which have seen the great rise in the standard of living of their people you note in your post have seen that rise because of strong unions, regulation of the stock markets, anti-trust lawsuits by the government and redistributive progressive income taxes. Take those practices away and you have, well look at the U.S. since the 1970s.

[@gerardgerard5681]

Look at North Korea that is what iit was like.

[@SepticToxicShark]

This is certainly a very good documentary on the cultural revolution. I do find it to be a little eurocentric in view though. That being said it's a great documentary and reminds me of when I read the book series on Mao's China by Frank Dikötter, which I found to be a extremely human look at how life was like then.

[@tambristola8098]

Lol

[@steveweinstein3222]

I get the criticism, but seeing it through the eyes of young Europeans who were growing up in China gives it an interesting perspective, perhaps more objective than the native Chinese.

[@SalamHerbs-db5nt]

You may ve interested in the book "Mao's America" written by a Chinese woman who was in china during the revolution and has lived in Kentucky since 1986. The book is relatively new.

[@wenlee8853]

I lived it. It was hell on earth.

[@sgt.s.muffins189]

Leaving your child behind to go on an "adventure?" .......right. ok boomer.

[@JustinRichards]

Thoroughly enjoyable..

[@tasosdiaforetico7377]

I have a learn English book from the era the lessons are so interesting, with many folk you can tell in the psyche it was a heavy time

[@Joe-vg1rb]

The lady romanticising standing in perceived solidarity with the Chinese maoists, with the hindsight of the historical context of 50m+ starved to death, is obscene. It shows just how much of a grip these ideologies can have on people.

[@jocnur4004]

Ahhhh starvation, the good ol times

[@亲爱的爸爸]

can you give some evidence? such as pictures or dead bones? please say more about that

[@thephantom1021]

@@亲爱的爸爸 wumao wumao Alert

[@youreyesarebleeding1368]

Ah yeah because china didn't have cyclical famines before Mao, and wasn't known as the, "land of famine."

[@jocnur4004]

@@youreyesarebleeding1368 thats crazy. The communist party was still responsible *ahem stalin*

[@youreyesarebleeding1368]

@@jocnur4004 Lmao capitalism has killed way more people than any numbers you can fudge about communism.

[@heywhatsthatsmell]

you are allowed to work but not allowed to think. the government has removed that burden from you.they will do the thinking , you just keep working.

[@shannonspoehrer9960]

Left her infant daughter to go worship Mao...she needs more helicopter rides in her life being able to smirk at that.

[@jimquann2400]

The French lady will never be happy. That is life.

[@hilarylawrence4588]

Now I've heard everything....."Maoist Groupies". European Commies are weird.

[@myster5y]

The young people these days want to ignore the fact communities are bad

[@pickle_v9377]

Ideologically, it’s the most ethical system. Capitalism cannot continue without mass exploitation

[@bry884466]

Happening now in the United states of America.... just at a slower pace....😢

[@gerardgerard5681]

Absolutely evil.

[@sanghoonlee5171]

Communism is a horribly coded game engine that has been patched dozens of times since launch, but it is so broken at the core that no studio has yet put together a decent playable game yet. But they do keep trying, again and again--Leninism and Stalinism and Trotskyism and Maoism and Pol Pot and Castro and Kim. It's a 100-year-old game now up to version 50.2, and the only thing you can reliably expect from it is game-breaking bugs, lots of team kills oscillating between massacres and genocides, and bad endings where the villain wins everything.

[@twentysecondcenturywoman]

This is beautiful

[@MrChenjinyuan]

As opposed the the goody goody effects of colonialism and Imperialism. Before we become lost in sanctimonious judgment of others we need to look inwards towards our own horrible and unspeakable deeds. Remember the finger pointing forward is connected to three pointing backwards. All nations are guilty of the most absurd atrocities towards mankind yet in the case of the West these sins are cast away as a thing of the past yet China despite its lifting of more than half its population of 1.4 million people are still judged and demonized as though it is still in the era of Mao. Makes one wonder as to the true agendas of those who write these narratives and who actually are their masters. They propose to be an independent press but are heavily influenced by government agencies and wealthy powerful persons of interest.

[@tbone450r]

Capitalism crashes every decade

[@explorerofunknownworlddept6232]

@@tbone450r your comment "capitalism crashes every decade" was suppressed? 6 hours ago? Noticed it earlier after 2 hrs but not take any action (thought not want to be a "trouble maker"! ) - a KZbin 's watch dog.

[@adammac4960]

It’s mental how citizens of the UK and United States slate their own country for being this and that but remember those countries give you the right to slate. If I was to choose west or east I would go west anytime.