EPISODE · May 31, 2023 · 37 MIN
Episode 11: ALL-AROUND CIVIL WAR (Apr-May 1967)
from The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Podcast · host The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Podcast
"The messier, the better!" The Red Guard movement begins to break down nationwide into brutal factional armed struggle. The People's Liberation Army is forced to take sides. Chairman Mao and his comrades help establish the Beijing Revolutionary Committee. The mass movements grow nationally and the Cultural Revolution spills out of Chinese borders and into the popular imagination of the people of the world with riots breaking out in Hong Kong.
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"The messier, the better!" The Red Guard movement begins to break down nationwide into brutal factional armed struggle. The People's Liberation Army is forced to take sides. Chairman Mao and his comrades help establish the Beijing Revolutionary Committee. The mass movements grow nationally and the Cultural Revolution spills out of Chinese borders and into the popular imagination of the people of the world with riots breaking out in Hong Kong.
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