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When Mao Zedong called for the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” in China in 1966, the giant empire plunged into a decade of terror.
In the name of communist ideology, China’s fanatical youth formed “Red Guards” and established a despotic rule in which children had their parents arrested, neighbors denounced each other, and unleashed mobs to beat “class enemies” to death.
Its initiator Mao Zedong, who rose from a farmer’s son in the provinces to become the “Great Chairman” of the Chinese Communist Party, had united the Middle Kingdom after decades of civil wars - and proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Thus, it transformed modern China into a new power factor in the Cold War of the great powers. When Mao met US President Richard Nixon shortly before his death, the disintegrating former Chinese empire had become a global economic power. The revolutionaries accepted the death of millions of people through the Red Terror as well as the destruction of civil society - a trauma from which China still suffers today.
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[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

At the beginning of the cultural revolution, China very much followed Stalin’s and Russia’s lead. But that ended and two communist enemies emerged. This is the story of Mao and what he did to the Chinese Psyche. They called him the “great leader “ The documentary gives a good overview of the situation in Asia from the 1930s until the 60s/70s. You get insight a lot of insight into the dynamics: why the Korean War happened, why two bombs were dropped on Japan and not only one. It’s a long watch and well worth it.

[@navydiver7018]

Ohhh . . . Had we helped? Our guys dying on their soil, or do you mean our people lacking by our taxes going there? It’s only those two things when emotion is taken out. While I feel for the world: China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Libya, all of Europe(simmering on the way to boiling), Argentina, chile, Japan’s defense, Haiti, etc, etc, etc…where all should our troops, money, and mental energy/hearts go? That’s leaving out the Middle East. Oh and Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe. Can we care but not get into any of these?….we seem to go from one to the next.

[@fandychenz1576]

@@navydiver7018 ,

[@pacificcoast3381]

Only the communists still call Mao Zedong the "Great Leader" because he was the first one who brought ruling communism to China. Pol Pot, the communist Khmer Rouge leader from 1975 to 1979, had a vision that he could do better that Mao for Cambodia: a Killing Field. Only when the people of China can openly express their voice and vote, and by only then they can exactly say who their "Great Leader" really is.

[@eric-nd9yy]

what time this doc release?

[@merryweather4988]

@@navydiver7018 Totally agree. Films like this one here conveniently blame communism for the death and destruction yet totally whitewash the fact that the so called democracies in the West is also the cause of these death because they r the ones supporting and complicit in these wars and killings. The Vietnam, Korean, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Ukraine etc etc. All these wars all over the world since WW2 were caused by or instigated by the US and its so called democratic countries.

[@PinkyJujubean]

My grandpa once said that anyone who claims to have all the answers or the perfect system should never be trusted under any circumstance. He was a wise man, my old Gramps.

[@deirdrenugent1887]

So please please please any Americans reading this, listen to Gramps wise words and DON'T let trump win 🙏🙏🙏

[@benangel3268]

So perhaps we should stop listening to Adam Smith and Mr Friedman.

[@PinkyJujubean]

@@benangel3268 perhaps so. They also claimed to have the answers. As did that Rothbard guy

[@WingkKong]

The west said democracy is the perfect system

[@PinkyJujubean]

@@WingkKong there's no such thing as a perfect system. Some are less flawed than others but that's about it really

[@Dd-sunshine68]

Isn't it ironic the man who came from a wealthy farming family and was trained as an intellectual those were the first people he sought to destroy

[@johnhoward374]

Revolutionaries are always from well-to-do middle class homes. Thats how they come up with their crackpot theories, too much time and money for their own good. Over educated and think they know it all

[@gaiusjulius_caesar2059]

Quite standard practice in each instance of a communist takeover...

[@remy12]

The same thing with Pol Pot.

[@henricusholtman3883]

Mao was brilliant, whatever you think of his policies, Pol Pot was not. Pol pot envisioned a society of peasants, a distinctly anti-Marxist sort of thing.

[@gaiusjulius_caesar2059]

@henricusholtman3883 Well, you can't fight that logic ... In solidarity, Theodore Kaczynski has written a congratulatory letter... Be sure to check post !!!

[@RT-qd8yl]

I'm very glad this is being provided to us for free. Thank you!

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

you’re welcome!

[@jameshodgetts5594]

Not really free we still have to pay for the internet 😮

[@MrWert1978]

thanks

[@thezendruid]

Honestly surprised this video hasn’t been removed by the commies who run this site

[@johnhoward374]

They had to import sparrows from the soviet union. Man that cracked me up

[@powergrassp7769]

Because he had no choice, the Soviet Union had the power of life and death over Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong endured it until the 1960s.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Mao was größenwahnsinnig which means he had the same affliction all dictators have: delusional. He thought he knew better than Nature. He was cruel.

[@RT-qd8yl]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory Thank you for the documentaries 🙂

[@friday2593]

这个是谣言- -

[@TheDutchShepherd]

​@@friday2593ok mr china

[@Mach5Johnny]

Hard to believe that so many people to this day still worship this Monster!

[@kallekas8551]

Why not?😂 Putin and Jia Ping modern equivalents.

[@Dd-sunshine68]

Maby there afrade not too like the Kim's there rull is absolute although my opinion is there waking up with ping's ruling china currently

[@samueljackson6188]

One mans monster is another mans pet. Remember that the next time you critize someone. All governments are like this.

[@robertmead9234]

And Che Guevara!

[@stevenhall9349]

@@robertmead9234 I watched a history channel documentary on Che He sure did not like Black people.

[@lonco2323]

It never fails to amaze me, how those who never experienced the brutality of communism. Speek so highly of it and conveniently bypass the horror of the ideology.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

indeed. And i find it disrespectful if not an outrage to the people who really suffered through it. Thank you for your time to comment

[@weplaydk2343]

​@@FreeDocumentaryHistorydo you make these documentaries or do you just upload the work of others?

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@weplaydk2343 You know Netflix? Like that. We produce our own documentaries and we license ie pay for the rights to stream documentaries on our channel.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@weplaydk2343 We are like Netflix: some documentaries are in-house produtions while other documentaries are licensed ie fees are paid to distributors giving us the right to stream. Only difference is we don't charge a subscription fee.

[@anthonylewis62]

they simply dont realize the evil behind it,

[@sandponics]

Give a man a uniform and he thinks he is God.

[@alexandersheridan2179]

I don't think there's any good evidence for that, a uniform is ammoral. It's just my opinion, but I think that probably only severely narcissistic or psychopathic types would experience a god-complex by what most would consider a serious responsibility and a revocable privilege. Though, uniforms can be a tool used to facilitate or brainwash people into collectivizing, depending on their willingness to consent.

[@sharkinmc9437]

My dad experienced the cultural revolution, and he is one of thousands and millions of victims. He almost died during the natural disaster (actually is a man made disaster) there are lots of sad stories he told me. It’s so sad that history repeats itself. I hope that Chinese people don’t have to suffer that situation again

[@truthmonster3290]

there was nothing cultural about that revolution

[@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we]

The TRUE pis tha today's modern China owes a lot to Mao and the Socilsit Revolution. Today it is the second economy in the world, the largest creditor of the United States, the Asian country has the largest middle class, is the largest manufacturer and is the largest exporter in the world, and is a leader in science and technology. Before Mao and the revolution, China lived immersed in anarchy, superstition, poverty, misery, profund social inequalityexploited by Western imperialist countries.

[@truthmonster3290]

@@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we Mao killed 100,000,000 Chinese and said it's ok, we have 100,000,000 more. Go get a refund from your failed government school

[@user-ox9ep9ki6h]

My wife's grandmother (who died 3 years ago) was a young teenager during those years. She refused to talk about it when we brought it up since we were both extremely interested in those years. Her father had been a minor landowner and the family lands were taken away, divided and given to others. Conveniently, the hardcore communists didn't leave them anything so they had to go live in the forest for years, scavenging and eating whatever they could find. Grandmother lost 2 siblings and 2 uncles -one disappeared and one killed- during the Cultural Revolution. My wife's father told us these things and also why grandmother didn't want to: After she had returned to the village, she was so thorughly brainwashed by Communists that she ended up believing everything that happened was entirely fair and she was lucky to be alive. Also, the years had been so hard that she barely survived and she felt physical pain thinking about the hunger, PTSD. They apparently often had to make soup out of grass and bark just to not go crazy from hunger. We never left anything on the plate whenever we ate with the family because grandmother would be visibly upset and uncomfortable seeing such a valuable thing as FOOD being wasted. Mao was a madman.

[@richeytony21]

Pay attention America.

[@deirdrenugent1887]

Power corrupts...total power totally corupts

[@sandponics]

Money and power corrupt. The poor are often the most honest people you can find, which is the reason why they are poor. Never trust rich people as they always have an agenda.

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

No, Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Stop posting bastardization.

[@deirdrenugent1887]

@@user-io6pj8bz8h total and absolute = same thing...

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

@@deirdrenugent1887 No they aren't, where did you learn English? Also, what you typed is nonsense, what I typed is the actual historical quote.

[@deirdrenugent1887]

@user-io6pj8bz8h did I say that I was quoting someone..did you see quotation marks? You need to have more tolerance...

[@LouielamsonTranNguyen]

The Red Waves of Terror, symbolized by the bloodbath unleashed by Mao and Ho in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 70s, has left a lasting scar that extended into the Pol Pot Genocide of Cambodia, famously known as 'the killing fields,' following the Vietnam War. The legacies of the Mao Red Terror, Ho Red Terror, and the horrors of the Pol Pot Genocide all trace back to a common root: the bloodbath of communism in Southeast Asia in the 20th century. The question remains: could such atrocities repeat in the 21st century and beyond? This documentary is a poignant reminder of the dark chapters of history, and I appreciate you sharing it.

[@hiennguyen5949]

The brainwashing education of the Vietnamese Communist Party keeps people from knowing these truths. Many people don't even know that HCM and Pol Pot are friends...🤣

[@weplaydk2343]

Good question, but could there be a form of communism that doesn't result in bloodshed and starvation but Instead benefit people?

[@hiennguyen5949]

​@@weplaydk2343 Communism is created from 3 main points: lies, violence, corruption. If one of the three is missing, it is not communism.

[@garychandler4296]

Yes there is. I lived a year in an American intentional community (there were 2000 at the time) and learned that even their true democracy had it's problems. The best model I have read on was from another community, where they had our system, only most power went to a benevolent dictator, ruling in favor of the majority. Problem in the world is, it's all about money, not morals or even spirituality.

[@tonyatgoogle6076]

Bloodbath unlease by Mao... History is written by the victors, and the victors has been the west. Bear that in mind. Your understanding of history is patchy at best but mostly misinformed. Ask yourself why is Mao so revered in China when (you) think he is such a monster?

[@jmariano7692]

Thank you for the free top tier content!! Very informative and interesting to watch 👍

[@ghormax]

The ancient history of China is overstated. The capital was not always Beijing, the empire was conquered by the Mongols and the Manchus. Some periods saw multiple dynasties simultaneously. The belief in a continuous history is a modern myth.

[@Pollymichaelis]

Thing is the Mongols and Manchus adopted the Han customs

[@jennifersun2638]

​@@PollymichaelisThe language didn't change

[@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj]

But we still use almost the writing from 2000 years ago, speak the same sinitic language which involved a lot of course. I can read ancient text written on bamboo from warring state period. We never spoke the mongol or Manchu lanaguge and our culture during nomadic dynasties was still Confucian. When China is divided like in three kingdoms either party claim to be the true China. When north is occupied by outsiders Chinese culture flourished in southern China

[@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj]

@@jennifersun2638manchus did gradually change their language but mongols did not that’s why Qing dynasty lasted longer than Yuan dynasty

[@Jason-ft5xm]

NO as a Chinese We guys all know that the chairman Mao was born into a rich landlord family.

[@davidhudson5452]

Stalin and Mao were much the same

[@StephenLuke]

And without Stalin, Mao wasn't the same.

[@powergrassp7769]

no,liushaoqi were same,maozedong like zhuyuanzhang,if you know east asia history,Zhu yuanzhang got his start by relying on religion, and in the end he suppressed these religions more severely than anyone else,this is for his dream of being an emperor,And the Chinese must support the emperor

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

All dictators are much the same

[@chairmansam312]

Very ruthless

[@user-bs2fd3gs4k]

​@@FreeDocumentaryHistory所有的西方國家都是猶太帝國的僕人

[@Williams.L]

Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@paulb2092]

I remember in about 1972 there was a big China fair in Toronto that was a kind of symbol of the rapprochement going on. At that time I was studying the idea of ideology and education, so I went down to the fair and engaged Chinese staff at a bookstore in the fair. The guy I talked to shook his head vigorously at my question, insisting "no politics, no politics."

[@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we]

The TRUE pis tha today's modern China owes a lot to Mao and the Socilsit Revolution. Today it is the second economy in the world, the largest creditor of the United States, the Asian country has the largest middle class, is the largest manufacturer and is the largest exporter in the world, and is a leader in science and technology. Before Mao and the revolution, China lived immersed in anarchy, superstition, poverty, misery, profund social inequalityexploited by Western imperialist countries.

[@kenyup7936]

this is totally shocking for me as Chinese, i dont even know in the english world they evaluated our politicians like this, anyway it's a eyes opening in a good way.

[@tycobandit]

In the west, the freedom of the individual is more important than collective opinion. It’s a product of the renaissance in Western Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. If you want to see what it looks like in Asia look to Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

[@adolft_official]

@@tycobandit Nice try, all those in asia were dictatorships efficiently converted to democracy by west through capital(USD ) control to thwart there emergence as a competitor

[@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we]

The TRUE modern China owes a lot to Mao and the Socialsit Revolution. Today it is the second economy in the world, the largest creditor of the United States, the Asian country has the largest middle class, is the largest manufacturer and is the largest exporter in the world, and is a leader in science and technology. Before Mao and the revolution, China lived immersed in anarchy, superstition, poverty, misery, profund social inequalityexploited by Western imperialist countries.

[@tycobandit]

@@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we wrong, China didn’t become “Modern China” until after Mao died and with substantial western investment. After the civil war Mao was the reason why China was being held back.

[@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we]

@@tycobandit Mao and the Revolution made the basis by which modern China became a giant today, among them stopping the savage imperialist and colonialist Western capitulation

[@Gay-ef3si]

Can you do a feature episode about South Korean Presidents Syngman Rhee,Park Chung hee and Chun Doo hwan

[@Rah514]

Just when I was wondering what to watch tonight. Thank you for uploading this gents 🍻

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

You’re very welcome! 🍻

[@thereaper7682]

Yea me too.. These historic docus are more interesting than movies 😂

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@thereaper7682 i find them to be excellent palette cleansers too 😀

[@Rah514]

Yeah I’d rather learn new things about the world, history etc than put the garbage that’s usually on TV into my head.

[@vivianjones9749]

Same here! My nighttime routine.

[@TheMrNatural]

Thank you so much for sharing 🙏

[@wlwang164]

Thank you for making this documentary! The atrocities, violence, brutality, and despair endured by people in China from the 1950s to the 1970s ought to be known by the world. The impact was widespread, affecting families across the country. The staggering death toll, likely comparable to or exceeding that of World War II. Families teared apart, and decades of economic, social, and educational progress lost. These events left deep psychological scars, instilling fear and a pervasive lack of trust in the society. Shockingly, these realities were never officially acknowledged or addressed in China, and many perpetrators of brutal crimes were never held accountable. Growing up in China during the 1970s and 1980s, these dark chapters were intentionally omitted from our history textbooks. We learned about them from the firsthand accounts of our parents' generation, who survived these tumultuous times and were deeply impacted.

[@cheneychen5703]

如果你多读点其他国家的历史书就知道50年代的饥荒是怎么回事，还有那二十年中国人口数增长多少？这就跟二十一世纪西方媒体还能鼓吹新疆种族灭绝一样可笑。毛泽东做过的坏事我们中国人都知道，但大多数人还是感谢他的好的一面，从那时开始中国已经放弃可笑的意识形态特别是在89年以后，不过用英语的人种以及被所谓民主洗脑的很多上等人已经失去了自己查找真相的能力了，可悲。

[@goat0master]

1:05:20 Macau was not a British colony but a Portuguese one ...

[@precessionoftheequinoxes3224]

You think Mao was bad. You should have met his wife, Jiang Qing.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

This is true. She was the leader in the gang of four I believe

[@chimwemunyenyembe4215]

😂😂😂. This is so intriguing, i have never come across the history of Mao's wife, and that she was ruthless.

[@nicugh5968]

The democratic capitalist system is not perfect for sure it does have a lot of gaps but the people are never so oppressed. China, Russia, Cuba, and North Korea had more than 100 million of ppl dying by starvation.

[@FollowTheCloud]

My family experienced the horrors of communism in cuba. They escaped

[@danak8782]

In Canada, Cuba almost sound the people are happy and the country rather romantic. 😞

[@steveennever9905]

🥱

[@helenachase5627]

Its only those who survived that can speak positively after a war or communist takeover. When those who survive speak of the positive aspects I make note that they too have dehuminized those who suffered senselessly and died

[@malik_alharb]

Whats a worse place to live in, early comunist China or Stalin's Soviet Union

[@athensmajnoo3661]

In USA as a slave in 1800.

[@rosejacklyn]

North Korea today

[@dongwu-dl5it]

In the United States of America in 2024, thousands of refugees and beggars starve to death every month.

[@DixiePokerAce]

​@athensmajnoo3661 You do realize that slavery existed in nearly EVERY country on earth long before the 1800s?

[@athensmajnoo3661]

@@DixiePokerAce it doesn't make it any pleasanter in USA, does it?

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@youtubehatesus2651]

Watching now. Thank you. If Mao's father was a wealthy farmer wouldn't that make him a capitalist and/or landowner? Did he employ people?

[@aimhigh3701]

Communists are all hypocrites. That’s why it always fails. It’s the politics of lies and delusion.

[@kristopherhop49]

I never understood how communism was supposed to be for the people, but all the leadership, all the planning and all the ownership was centralized and controlled by one small group

[@raymondcheung409]

Well it's like voting but it's a popularity contest. Some want educated people in power for the benefit of society. Or like the west... clowns

[@WingkKong]

The political power and Money in America is also control by small group of people

[@mariussielcken]

​@@WingkKongthe West has an adversary system.

[@WingkKong]

@@mariussielcken all political system is elite system Ordinary people has no say

[@Ur2ez4me81]

@@WingkKongbut at least many of us how the chance to better ourselves, you can’t over there…

[@killaant84]

History is so beneficial

[@balongsawyer9960]

I love this documentary

[@cheneychen5703]

一部充满西式谎言的影片，请把当小说读吧。

[@Meatlover971]

​@@cheneychen5703why did the Chinese people bow down to Mao though, why did they worship him like a God?

[@adolft_official]

@@Meatlover971 why did the American people bow down to European Settlers though, why did they worship them like a God?

[@WingkKong]

​@@Meatlover971because he create a new dynasty Make China a great power again instead of a country attacked by the west continuously

[@user-nl9tp1li2c]

Let me tell you a terrible fact. They are still alive and still hold state power. Ye Wenjie is right about The Three-Body Problem. In China, Ye Wenjie has many fans.

[@spinusportugal1086]

The British colony of Macau (1:05) !!!????? That is big news for Portuguese people...

[@annechapman-hq4rj]

Very well done, thank you

[@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we]

The TRUE modern China owes a lot to Mao and the Socialsit Revolution. Today it is the second economy in the world, the largest creditor of the United States, the Asian country has the largest middle class, is the largest manufacturer and is the largest exporter in the world, and is a leader in science and technology. Before Mao and the revolution, China lived immersed in anarchy, superstition, poverty, misery, profund social inequalityexploited by Western imperialist countries.

[@annechapman-hq4rj]

@@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we millions of Chinese people died under Mao’s regime. China had such a rich and beautiful history but in every communist regime the beautiful foundation and institutions must be demolished and replaced with the communist approved systems. Did you know China was able to access the world trade system only because the USA gave them permission to enter during the 1970s under the Nixon administration? Many of the leaps forward in industry occurred because China has stolen intellectual properties from the United States off the backs of our engineering and scientific industries. Also, they operate using forced labor camps of Uyghurs and Falun Gong victims and others they consider dissidents in prison labor camps. This helps to keep costs down and enables them to compete with an advantage but at what cost to human dignity? Yes US corporations turn to China to manufacture for cheaper labor costs and the US government has foolishly accepted loans from China. Greed and corruption is prevalent in many societies. Chinese Citizens are controlled by surveillance and the social credit system. If you want to credit Mao then I agree with you for forced labor, stolen intellectual properties, and a the current surveillance state. That is not a place I’d call free and if it’s not free I wouldn’t call it a success.

[@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we]

Unfortunately, there is no revolution without great mistakes and successes, and many deaths - all of this is humanly inevitable, but future history has shown that the revolution was essential to rid the country of backwardness, underdevelopment, inequality, landlords, and the colonial clutches of Western powers. . Abrir no Google Tradutor •

[@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we]

@@annechapman-hq4rj @Magno_o_Mago-iz1we há 9 horas The TRUE is modern China owes a lot to Mao and the Socialsit Revolution. Today it is the second economy in the world, the largest creditor of the United States, the Asian country has the largest middle class, is the largest manufacturer and is the largest exporter in the world, and is a leader in science and technology. Before Mao and the revolution, China lived immersed in anarchy, superstition, poverty, misery, profund social inequalityexploited by Western imperialist countrie

[@haydenhilton]

My friend’s grandpa is super rich but he is also a hardcore Maoist-he even used to own and write for a “Maoist newspaper.” He’s never lived in China. It’s so ironic.

[@user-ld1dy3yc8j]

It always comes down to a vision of the ambitious and psychotic. If you don’t believe what they do you are expendable.

[@QuavisMccottrey]

Underrated comment

[@anacasco7765]

Thanks for showing - briefly - the chronology of those events from the 1930 s to 1960/70s in China, Japan and Korea for some of us still struggle to "ORGANIZE" those events together with the Americas and Europe. Mentioning the reason for the second bomb dropped in Nagasaki is also "educational" for the leftists in Uruguay (who've always messed up even our National History) use that 2nd bomb as "confirmation of how mean the U.S.A. is". Personally, I will always THANK you, Americans, for your never-ending efforts to MAINTAIN PEACE... or to REGAIN PEACE wherever that is required. Of course, some mistakes have been made - you're also "human" - but the Good Intention has prevailed. 👍🇺🇲👍 I'm not a religious person, but I do believe that God knows who you are... and He won't let you down. I wish this ALSO happened here, in Uruguay with the Democratic citizens who are fighting against the LEFTIST & ANARQUIST infiltration we're suffering by 2024.

[@YourFavAustrianPainter]

This dude deserves 100 million subs

[@user-xl1kl4zx3b]

Good Documentary

[@balozhende5727]

1:05.00 Macau was NOT a British colony. Macau was a Portugueses colony.

[@user-tq7xq2re9k]

He had a lot of Sparrows killed.😳

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

This another Thug Monster Hagiography. Great photography!

[@tazkrebbeks3391]

What is the definition of an oxymoron. A billionaire communist

[@alexanderkidonakis9185]

The lady at 1:38:00 is translating like her life depended on it (probably was) She was either nervous and slipping up words or possibly she just wasn’t a great interpreter

[@LilRebelYell]

The "steel" the communities made could barely be called steel as quality control was zero because it was quantity that was valued. Most of this slag was useless and just dumped.

[@georgeschnakenberg7808]

Are tou really trying to say mao was right wing? If so that term has no meaning

[@billbandoh5818]

Why can’t mao be right wing

[@georgeschnakenberg7808]

@billbandoh5818 right wing (comes from the French revolution as the side of the isle that wanted to keep the monarchy and traditions) are conservative. How is what moa did traditional or conservative? Moa was LITERALLY left wing. Or it has no meaning anymore. Please tell me how he was right wing.

[@brandonmanasco5738]

Man nothing has meaning anymore. People just call what they want when it fits the narrative

[@georgeschnakenberg7808]

@@brandonmanasco5738 so true

[@SuperiorAmericanGuy]

I like Taiwan due to they agree with me about being against communist China.

[@wickedgood7549]

But they were the losers of the Chinese civil war and they weren't Taiwanese. They were mainland Chinese who followed CKS as escaping from Mao's forces.

[@SuperiorAmericanGuy]

Look if you want me to post negative comments against communist China just to let you know I can’t do that because KZbin will remove negative hostile comments.

[@SuperiorAmericanGuy]

I can’t post negative comments about China due to KZbin removes negative comments off of KZbin.

[@InquisitorXarius]

They are the Republic of Formosa, not Taiwan and definitely not Chinese Taipei.

[@raymondcheung409]

If you actually read the law of Taiwan beforehand during that stage it was as strict as the communist.

[@Demy1970]

The end of Mao shaking hands with the German chancellor looks familiar☹️

[@jacobkuntflapp]

Lovely people, horrendous government.

[@MusicArchon]

Could say the same about the US

[@jacobkuntflapp]

@@MusicArchon absolutely.

[@grzegorzrokita2330]

W Polsce mówimy. GDYBY Komuniści mieszkali na Saharze brakło by piasku! A na Antarktydzie nie było by lodu! 😂

[@user-bq8xs1up6i]

They’re coming for the globe and have infiltrated the highest American cabinets. Brace yourselves we’re laughing now and we’ll be crying later if we don’t take it upon ourselves to stop the powers that be. Only scary thing is this time around they have AI.

[@ligayamatira2293]

Can you do a feature episode Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos,Sr. and Portuguese Dictator Antonio De Oliveria Salazar and South Korean President Park Chung Hee

[@Mach5Johnny]

Antonio De Oliveira Salazar would be interesting… I love the fact that he really hated Commies but I do recognize that he was no saint either! He was still an extremely authoritarian dictator.

[@kevintewey1157]

2 are CIA planted

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

on the list! thank you!

[@Mach5Johnny]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory you guys should come out with an English translated documentary on the French Mercenary Bob Denard.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@Mach5Johnnywell look into that - thanks

[@victorperfecto7472]

The irony that xi’s parents were victims of the Cultural Revolution. And he used Mao’s template to crack down dissent

[@user-ho6hv8xk9h]

啥也不懂，别说了，

[@WingkKong]

Chinese people enjoy the best living standard in its history They have peace n fast growing economy ❤

[@yafuli6867]

没有中文字幕？

[@alexandercarder2281]

As I look at his dead body draped with the red flag, I can’t help wonder where Moa ze dong’s thoughts are now. Such a strange man to me. He was just like Stalin in his mannerism almost to a tea, ponderous, Stoic, incalculable and aloof. The real Poker face.

[@FloridaGirl-]

He is probably experiencing the same thing right now as the rich man in Luke 16:19-31. No doubt.

[@brendenviljoen6190]

Thanks but idea how about world war 1 and 2 how it started and ended etc and leaders boigrafie from different lands please

[@livinglife4835]

Please feel free to make those documentaries.

[@TheGarciaFamily04]

My friend that came from China to Australia escaping Mao regime was the daughter of a minister in the previous government. She maintains her father was killed in a hospital he went for treatment during the cultural Revolution.

[@wordscapes5690]

Surprised the algorithms have not censored this as yet.

[@briancornish5990]

Didn’t you see the blur over bodies, injuries, executions?

[@wordscapes5690]

@@briancornish5990 I was not speaking of the gore but the history.

[@Vaumentili]

He spoke excellent Chinese? That's the first time I heard someone claim that haha Chinese say his Hunanese accent was so thick so many found it difficult to understand him.

[@rubi588]

What in the world is that pronunciation of apocalyptic? 1:06:06 🤣🤣🤣

[@nealamesbury7953]

I had zero idea that this was as late as 1966. !

[@jennifersun2638]

We learn history so we can have a Good understanding of how we All got here and Why they way things are.

[@powergrassp7769]

this was Mao Zedong's approach to purge China of Soviet agents. Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai were both agents of the Soviet Union. Mao Zedong had no influence at the top of the military and intelligence agencies, so he could only mobilize the grassroots to suppress them. Without China's new entrants from North China, It is impossible for China to establish diplomatic relations with Western countries if grassroots cadres are allied with Mao Zedong. The first official private economy of the People's Republic of China was during the Cultural Revolution. Later, Deng Xiaoping suppressed the Gang of Four and used it as evidence of crime.

[@kennmossman8701]

lmao

[@anthonylewis62]

this was more simple than that, he was an evil man, that used people to keep power nothing more nothing less, evil has the same motives, destroy and control

[@chromeisbadalex6466]

Opinion All ideologies in politics could make a super powerful empire as long as you are the rignt leader

[@normannabatar6260]

This is better than 3 Body Problem.. It seems they took it out anyways. Sayang.

[@user-yo3uf9os2z]

The funny thing is that I can't understand Mao when he speaks Chinese and I'm a fluent Mandarin speaker.

[@freakinfrugal5268]

Why not? What is he speaking??

[@rasheed7934]

Maybe he has a thick back country accent the way my grandfather did.

[@henricusholtman3883]

I think a lot of Mandarin speakers couldn’t understand Mao. From what I get he spoke Hunan dialect, which is almost the same as Mandarin, but not quite.

[@vivianjones9749]

Mr Xi is the first leader to speak Mandarin. Mao probably spoke his provincial language.

[@Magno_o_Mago-iz1we]

The TRUE modern China owes a lot to Mao and the Socialsit Revolution. Today it is the second economy in the world, the largest creditor of the United States, the Asian country has the largest middle class, is the largest manufacturer and is the largest exporter in the world, and is a leader in science and technology. Before Mao and the revolution, China lived immersed in anarchy, superstition, poverty, misery, profund social inequalityexploited by Western imperialist countries. vvv

[@berniekatzroy]

Lets be honest, people only checking this out now bc of Netflix's the three body problem.

[@ChrisSmith-lo2kp]

he's just a different form of warlord emperor

[@user-bw8yx2bg9x]

I’ve gone through culture revolution and I can tell for sure the west, especially USA are in the beginning stage of cultural revolution 😂

[@nicholasgoh3526]

Those who study Communism will find that it has the answer to every problem but the human element is never taken into consideration.

[@devildoggaming4603]

Good morning

[@BenLim-zd1zv]

We have the advantage of retrospect. It is easy to say that "they were foolish " to follow such an idea as communism. However putting ourselves in the political context of the era the early 1900s, with all the suffering and political upheavals of the day, it does seems like a great way to alleviate the circumstance at that time

[@mylet2658]

The great leap backwards !!

[@wesleyclayton1168]

This is not the whole truth but few facts of history here and there

[@freakinfrugal5268]

What do you think is missing?

[@jonahthompson9404]

Any Idea who narrates the documentary?

[@PM2024-]

Bill Cosby

[@FloridaGirl-]

That’s not Bill Cosby. 🤣🤣🤣

[@jgoodman85]

This does not sound familiar at all…..

[@vancouverviking4652]

🇨🇦

[@jamesburkhart9100]

The red terror seems similar to recent events. Police letting mobs do what they do? Words becoming weapons? Neighbor turning on neighbor? Anyone else?

[@annechapman-hq4rj]

Agree totally

[@rasheed7934]

Sounds like the history of humanity from the beginning.

[@NigelJackson]

The current CCP tellingly refer to the Woke turmoil, destruction and upheaval as the 'Western Cultural Revolution'.

[@InquisitorXarius]

Those who say such things are laughably ignorant and ungrateful of the Progress of which America is the vanguard of. Comparing protests and riots over abuses of Law Enforcement to dedicated purges of the Academia, Intelligentsia, and Specialized labor that murdered is a mentally invalid equative at best and utter intentional malicious deceit in all likelihood.

[@TomMorrison-cc6xw]

"the Mao Cult" is a LOT like "only I can fix it." History does repeat itself.

[@vancouverviking4652]

Mao sounds like Trudeau 😮

[@FloridaGirl-]

No Trudeau is striving to be like Mao! Seems to be the push globally. Some countries are just further along .i pray BOTH our countries get NEW leadership. We have a stage 4 dementia patient in charge! 🤦‍♀️ UNBELIEVABLE.

[@anastasiosgounaris]

This German “journalist and author” is the only expert speaking in this documentary??

[@peterreston6478]

Very good survey of the period, particularly from Mao's rise to power. Yes, the CCP has not dealt with the Cultural Revolution despite the fact that the current leader and his family were directly affected.

[@barcafan1941]

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[@danak8782]

Wow, I think you might be right. Thanks for the comment.

[@cliffpage7677]

To those of us who lived through the 50s, 60s, and 70s the mysterious world of China was hidden from us, as this part of the world was a remote corner of secrecy. Yet what is going on in the world today, particularly in education, political correctness, cultural erasure, Wokeness, and historical revisionism has its roots in the era of Mao in China and his Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Not only in America but in Europe, even with the fall of the Soviet Union, the influence of Mao remains the dominant force of Marxism. Its tentacles run deep in policies and practices of creeping socialism into the fabric of our Western societies. This excellent video is largely drawn from the first-hand knowledge of Mao through his personal English translator. Today, if Americans want to know about themselves and the direction our nation and the West are traveling, we must understand Mao and China. China has surpassed every other nation in the world in the 20th century in its rapid advancement, growth, industrialism, development, and power.

[@rasheed7934]

You're easy to see through.

[@livinglife4835]

​@@rasheed7934 He's not wrong.

[@rasheed7934]

@@livinglife4835 What impressed you about anything he said?

[@setransou]

China’s centralized power combined with a managed capitalism is adept at quickly adapting to the needs of society and countering the competition of other nation states. In some ways, they are superior to a republic or democracy because they can implement long term thinking and goals whereas western politicians and corporations are slaves to short term thinking and goals due to constant elections and quarterly earnings reports respectively. But, China has relied heavily on the theft of technology and innovations of western Capitalism to achieve their success. And to their credit, they are surpassing the West in science and technology. Now with the proliferation of smart phones and social media, China has a trojan horse with which to control, influence, and ultimately weaken the west. Hopefully, we can avoid the path China and other communist nations have taken as the death toll speaks for itself.

[@cliffpage7677]

@@setransou Centeral planning has all the advantages you mention, but it also has not brakes or governors when bad decisions are made. For instance China committed itself to flood control that dislocated and destroyed countless villages. China has modeled it modernizing urban planning on the "American high-rise" and the automobile and freeways, etc. (with the exception of public trains), which has been a bad model and a major mistake that has erased much of its historical and cultural architectural and urban planning patrimony, destroying by erasure (from the Cultural Revolution onward) its uniquiese and character in the world. Most egregiously China by its central planning over built and and over loaned and is now in a recession that has dwarfed the declines of the West in 2008 and 2012. China cannot recover from this huge mistake made by its central planning, because it copied the Western industrialization model which leads to a reduction in population growth, which is an epidemic natural phenomenon seen in all the Western world. Their industrializing policies put their one child - one family policy to shame. China and its population, which was the largest in the world has now been eclipsed by India. China used to be 1/3 and India 1/4 of world population. Now it is India that has an expanding population. Socialized systems demand a 2.1% growth in population to sustain the Ponzi scheme of socialized welfare. Centeral planning when it makes mistakes, it makes huge mistakes. Certainly I have always been impressed with Chinese rapid growth and advancement, particularly when compared to Soviet Union advancement, or Western models, and still am, but I am also congnicent of its "huge" failures. The bigger the ship of state, the harder it is to turn around or stop its inertial motion.

[@TheSotexy2]

find it hard to believe they killed birds by making noise and not letting them "land"

[@LoganInThailand]

I have a 5 year old. Believe me, the emperor of China didn't "abdicate".

[@user-px9nq8bh8y]

Deng xio ping brought a thaw

[@powergrassp7769]

No, it was the United States that brought about the thaw. Deng Xiaoping was Liu Shaoqi's successor. He launched a military coup to overthrow Hua Guofeng. He launched a crackdown on the private economy and the family planning system suppressed China's population.

[@powerwish9185]

No, it was the United States that brought about the thaw. Deng Xiaoping was Liu Shaoqi's successor. He launched a military coup to overthrow Hua Guofeng. He launched a crackdown on the private economy and the family planning system suppressed China's population.

[@powergrassp7769]

Дозоров launched a crackdown on the private economy

[@powerwish9185]

1983 "Strike Hard" Anti-crime Campaign or "Stern Blow" Anti-crime Campaign of 1983

[@powerwish9185]

1983?

[@smokeythebear1633]

is there an uncensored version of this? you should be ashamed censoring this historical footage.

[@lisaenglert3202]

KZbin would strike it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m sure it’s out there if you want the uncensored one

[@weplaydk2343]

​@@lisaenglert3202lol exactly why would someone be ashamed for following rules, if it's an issue might as well delete KZbin, which no one will do..

[@khalee95]

We can't really say if it was not necessary. He did in the end united China once more since the fall of Imperial China and got the country into being one of 3 super power today. Necessary evil or the greater of two evils, as some would say.

[@PJHamann1]

",,,but the United States had imposed a trade embargo." (shows video of the flour donated by the USA to China during their darkest hours of need).

[@galaxy-star-me]

America and the west are on the same Mao’s road .

[@Repdem]

BS

[@shiverarts8284]

​@@Repdemyes

[@myeyeswentdeaf6213]

As someone who falls somewhere between Democratic Socialist and Social Democrat myself, I’ve ALWAYS stood against Communism. I think Communism is impossible. This ‘Communist Utopia’ they’re always fantasizing about. It’s NOT possible! Sure the idea of Communism sounds good on paper, but in the real world, where there’s always gonna be things like corruption, it IS impossible! The best systems are countries like Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Denmark, etc. Those countries like that, over there.

[@edoedo8686]

I disagree.

[@user-yr6ze8tt9o]

How can a country of 1.4 billion people, who missed two industrial revolutions and did not engage in colonial plunder to complete the primitive accumulation of capital, with the vast majority of people living in an agricultural society, quickly rise in a non-state capitalist way in the global order dominated by the United States after World War II, and safeguard sovereignty from US intervention? The Nordic countries are great, but not every country has the right to choose comfort.

[@LifePathOne-hi8nx]

except sweden.

[@robn880]

Norway and Sweden aren't socialist. They have a market economy. Socialists do that on purpose so people think of Scandinavian capitalism when they say socialism but it's a lie. Socialism means state control of all industry. You're talking about universal healthcare and vacation time!

[@stephenspidell6324]

They have abandoned socialism BC it's way too expensive. The only clown who loves it is our great vacuus leader here in Canada. Why do you think socialism is so great? Why is it better than capitalism?

[@jeremyboughtono2]

Diane Abbott said he was mostly a force for good.

[@thespartan8476]

Never let the British and American KZbin videos cover history. Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it. History is busy repeating itself. Leaders don't learn from the past, they want to relive it. The arrogance and ignorance of the British & Americans is aggravating, isn't it?

[@chenyulin8236]

将革命进行到底

[@ryandavis9898]

MAO loves dong

[@MarktheMole]

China is fast returning to its 'roots and turnips' diet of centuries of history up to 1980s. One error: Macau was never a British colony but a Portuguese one..

[@nenblom]

Mao Tse Tung was satan’s helper.

[@keledailiar5272]

no one human in this world can give a true piece, except jesus crist,the Son of GOD

[@jimbogan367]

Had Japanese bombarded Yanang during the war? Why not? I think the documentary missed most important secret question in that period!

[@kingwing3203]

What we are learning is the McCarthyism of the United States. This is a product of the times. No one can avoid it, because the hostility between countries has always existed during the Cold War era, and the emergence of the atomic bomb has made the fear more thorough.