[Podcast] Mao’s Cultural Revolution turns deadly

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On August 18, 1966, in front of a million supporters at Tiananmen, a symbolic gesture from Mao Zedong made it clear that the Red Guards had his official endorsement to continue enacting, with violence, their rebellion against authority figures.

Click here to read the article by James Carter.

Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.

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