if you watch the entire thing, it almost makes you cry because once china was a socialist wonderland before dengxiaoping gave up the glorious ideal of communism for imperialist capitalism
Stop arguing about America vs. China. They aren't very different from each other. Both suffer an un-democratic government and the evils of unregulated capitalism.
People say that this film is propaganda, but I don't think so, because I studied about the Chinese Revolution at school and it says exactly what is said at this film. Btw, I'm not from a socialist country, I'm from Brazil, a capitalist country, I studied in a private school during the times of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, aligned with Washington and with Clinton and Bush policies.
So, you can't say that I studied history thru "communist propaganda".
@Corvusdotensis: I wish you understood how laughable it is that you sight "Clinton" policies as somehow being against the PRC. Clinton was $10 whore for Beijing. One of the biggest scandals of his administration was all the money the PRC gov't put into the Clinton political campaigns.
In 1964 (when this movie was made) the PRC had just completed the Great Leap Forward, which is commonly believed to have killed (mostly by starvation) about 40 million people. Shortly after this film Mao began..
@VictorLepanto: ...The Cultural Revolution, which killed a couple million more. Especially targetted in the Cultural Revolution were artist cultural types the performers in this movie. I was thinking as I watched this, how many of the performers here died a horrible violent death shortly after this performance? Ever hear of the PRC's own system of GULAG slave labor camps called Lao Gai?
Man, don't waste your time with conspiracy theories! That was never proofed. However, it was proofed that he had sexual relations with M. Lewinsky and lied before the country.
On the Great Leap Foward, there are no proofs of such claims, only propaganda. US killed millions of people during it's formation. So, don't come with this nonsense, because only retards can believe that more people died in GLF than WWII.
@Corvusdotensis: You're nearly perfect in your ignorance. Such is the nature of a propagandist education. Not only is your head NOT filled w/ real information, it has been rendered immune to hearing the truth. 40 million dead under Mao is the low ball number. Some go as far as 70 million. You need to learn to think in terms of facts & not propagandist's ideological catagories. About 60 milloin died all of WWII, 20 million in China.
Yeah, 40, 70 million, 100 million, the numbers always change according to the ignorance and hatress against China and Communism, then you just wake up.
The funny thing at such ignorants is how people without any study, statistics or serious research can defend such foolishness with conviction, as if he/she was a PhD or better saying, God itself, fulfilled with all the science to be absolutely right about something.
@Corvusdotensis: There are numerous histories of WWII, there are numerous histories of the endless butcheries of the Maoist tyranny. The numbers are fairly consistant & the scholars have established a consensus. Including both Asia & European theaters, about 70 milloin died in WWII. Nearly 20 million died in China. On Mao; some people go as high as 70 million dead under his rule. Most low numbers hover around 40 million. Mao was one of the world's greatest disasters.
There are numerous stories of ppl who saw ghosts, that does not mean that they exist. What can be affirmed without proofs may be discharged without proofs.
The only greatest disasters of world is called United States of America, after Hitler, it's the only champion in mass murders, all of them documented, taped and even praised by its government, Lybia, Sudan, former Iugoslavia, Guatemala, Filipines, Cuba, Iraq... without counting its numerous supports to bloody tyrants.
US is one of the champions of slaughtering of its own population. Of course people died in Chinese Revolution, it was a revolution, as many people died during American Independence struggle, but today in China, you find the Han, you find artists, singers, communists, anticommunists... differently to America, which killed most of its own native population, today in America it's rare to see an indian, they were nearly 100% eliminated.
An overwhelming propaganda movie. I think that we must watch this movie in this respect. The Chinese communists had some help from Germany and the US in their struggle. In the early days of Chinese communism and during a part of the Long March, Mao´s role of the ultimate communist leader wasn´t all that clear and sure. Another matter is how certain minorities follow communism: the Tibetans, e.g., weren´t as eager to follow as was depicted at the end of the movie...
Althougth Our Great Chairman Mao made many thing bad, Chairman Mao is our sun in our heart!!!!! HE BUILDED CHINA! HE MADE THE PRC! HE MADE CHINESE STAND IN THE WORLD!!!!!!
It is a lie! HE did nothing wrong comrade! He made some mistakes but the great cultural revolution was a success with its destruction of the horrible anti feminist culture they had!
do not blame chairman mao because they do his part without mao china without nothing.... and beside do you know revisionism? a lot of Chinese have that kind of attitude when chairman past away they revisionist are playing inside the party....
fyi stalin and mao were *hardly* buddies....if you are going to slam mao...get your facts right.... they shared a similar method....but they were actually enemies... Mao defied stalin with the formation of the PRC.
In my opinion, this movie reflects what Hollywood musicals used to be: dance, music, song, and poetry. However, this stands as the ultimate ego trip for the CCP! The entire concept of Communism sucks!
Mao was a disaster for China! His cultural revolution killed 30 million chinese and china lost an entire generation! Why is everything censored in China?! Why do they throw wonderful Chinese heroes like Ai wei wei in prison just for asking for freedom of speech (which is in china's constitution)? May Mao rot in hell for the suffering he gave to the Chinese people!
@TheTruthinchina Mao actually encouraged the people of China to criticise the government. Let's name a couple of policies: the Hundred Flowers Movement and the Bombard the Headquarters movement.
When I was little kid, I didn't find this very interesting becasue I didn't have the artistic knowledge to appreciate this epic work. Now I am older, I realize that this is really a great piece of art work.
The East is red ! The sun is rising ! Long live the People's Republic
Soon the whole world will be red, the sun is setting on capitalist tyranny and oppression. What a great day when the sun finally shines on a free world...
During the GLF, tragic as this period was, less people as a proportion of the population died than at any consecutive 3 or 4 year period in pre-revolutionary China. That is pre-revolutionary China had conditions on average far worse than the GLF. Charlatans like Jung Chang and Dikotter calculate excess deaths based on inflated mortality rates, and assuming an incredibly low 'normal' mortality of 10/1000 - but to be consistent they should credit lives saved due to this low mortality rate.
Chairman Mao was probably saved more lives than any other man in history. Life expectancy went from 33 in 1949 to 65 in 1976. The fastest rate of increase in life expectancy in history. There is a Yale study on this great achievement of revolutionary China. China's life expectancy at the time of his death was higher than that of India's today, and much higher than any other developing country of the time. Mao laid the foundation of the independent flourishing China.
We Chinese all over the world will always be eternally grateful to Chairman Mao. We will cherish his memory deep in our hearts. Without Mao-Zedong, there would be no new China!
Los chinos del mundo entero le estaremos eternamente agradecidos al Presidente Mao. Guardaremos su memoria en lo más profundo de nuestros corazones. Sin Mao-Zedong no existiría una nueva China!
It should be noted that there was a five minute overture of the "Internationale" (reprised in the finale) which then opens over a prologue (text) prior to this sequence... Is there a version available with the english subs ?
All that "progress" harvested not one grain of rice, produced not one ingot of steel, created not one educated scientist capable of analytical research, built no houses nor roads, cured not one person of any disease, nor created even one lasting edifice in tangible service to the people.
Learn from farmers, their real needs and requirements for the soil to yield its treasures. Learn from steel mills, factories, spinning mills, what is really needed to produce tangible goods for the people!
Thanks Richien for uploading this video.I cried when i saw this video.Made me proud to be chinese and never shame for it.Mao Zedong made China from Capitalism to Communist ,because we were tired to be a slaved country,a dependency to Britains,Japanese and more. Mao Zedong did right.I'm proud to knowing my grandfather and his parents were in Mao Zedong side and was joined 'The long March'. Once again,Thanks for uploading this video :')
I think that Mao originally started with the right idea. Liberating the Chinese people and improving the standard of living. However, his bad decision making, paranoia of others betraying him, and setting himself as something of a god; are why I dislike him. Deng Xiaopping later fixed many of Mao's mistakes, but markets conflict with communist theory and opening up has led to many problems in the country as well.
I'm looking at all of these pro-Maoist comments here and I'm genuinely confused as to why this generation of Chinese have become so blind to the errors of the past. My grandparents and parents and an entire generation of Chinese are utterly disillusioned with Communism and with good reason. It does not do to confuse nationalistic pride with a specific political ideology.
No matter takes the political issue in account or not, still this performance is one of the greatest performing art in history since PRC established.
Just imagine, in that status, the country was lacking of resources. However, they still insisted to put this performance out. It just like they tried their best to tell the world that they were strong enough after WWII.
Is there anything that we can learn from this performance (from the stage to the concept which behind the show)?
Competence and good character in government are more important than which ideology you follow. - I don't care if it's a black cat or white cat, if it catches mice it is a good cat.
Mao was a great leader and Deng a great leader. Certainly in recent decades China has been run in a more competent and sensible manner than Western nations obsessed with the illusion and deceit of neoliberalism.
Thank God the days are behind us when large portions of the world's population lived under tolitarian systems. China may not be perfect now, but it seems that people have much more freedom than they did then.
It's important to realise that idealism and leader worship didn't get big just because of Mao. As other videos on youtube show, the more market-leaning leaders, after seeing his great leap forward fail, put him in a figurehead position so that they could implement economic recovery programme whilst he wrote more for his published works (hongbaoshu[little red book])and so all that backfired since the masses, still poor by 1966, were now set up to embrace propaganda and get emotional/rowdy/violent
The Chinese people will forever respect the great leader from the deep hearts! Please be aware that there was no nation concept in the period at the beginning of the 20th century. It was Chairman Mao who united China!
I haven't read much about the modern history of China (but I am reading more about it) but I think the only thing mao was good for was creating a united nation...if you look back at how fragmented China was during warlord era / foreign imperialism, it's amazing how he brought together so many people into one nation. China's clout on the world stage today is because it's the biggest nation on earth, thanks to Mao. However, Mao's economic policy was fully abandoned by the time of Deng,thank god!
@Togepi271 modern day Qin Shi Huang...killed millions, burnt books, oppressed people but unified China, and look at how China flourished after Qin dynasty...in the same way, China will surge and flourish after Mao
@Togepi271 Killed millions? Please provide us data. Maybe he did kill members of the reactionary bourgeois class who themselves lead systematic massacres against poor Chinese workers and peasants. On the other hand, leaders of the imperialist system, especially U$ of AmeriKKKa continue to massacre and oppress hundreds of millions of people from the Third World but we don't hear much about the crimes of these imperialist-fascist leaders because they control the media!
@4everdbskify Maybe they are also taking it against Mao those people who died because of the flooding of the Yangtze River! Hahaha! Funny people, they love to blabber invectives and lies against things and people they know nothing of in the first place
@4everdbskify my grandpa was jailed by Mao for being an anti-revolutionary under no grounds whatsoever. Many "anti-revolutionaries" died. If you really think America is such an oppressive terrible country, then ask yourself why there are so many people wanting to get in this country? Mao starved many people to death in the Great Leap Forward and my mom had to endure that. I suggest you study your history more before mudslinging our country that gives you the freedom of speech to curse it!
@dougradtke Sure American's get freedom of speech, and inalienable rights, a government made by the people for the people. While Americans enjoy the luxuries of freedom, other countries around the world are paying the price for something they didn't deserve. Some countries, happy and prosperous, destroyed in one fell swoop, and all for what? Honduras, Bolivia, Argentina, Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma, just to name a few had became "special interests", their "dictators" were sponsored by the CIA.
@contractki11er What does any of that have to do with Mao, jailing anti-revolutionaries, and more people dying in the "Great Leap Forward" than the Holocaust? How about Cambodia which you left off your list I'm sure everyone had a great time with Pole Pot and the Khmer Rouge running the show.
So what would you do? Disband the CIA? Everything done against international communism at the time, was believed to be in international policy's best interest for America. Hindsight is 20/20.
do you know what are you talking about? please read more..... then analyzed it.... America his power are slowly going down the America has planned to stay in power by 2020
The Chinese are doing quite well since they are going through a period of rapid expansion, but there is a large lower class in the cities and countryside that are not in a particularly better position than before privatization. Living conditions have improved for skilled workers and those involved in business though.
They went down a similar path as the Soviet Union and if you think Russia is any more democratic now then you need to pull your head out of your ass. Many of the other former Soviet states have achieved greater democracy though. I want China to allow political freedom and democracy, but I also want a populace that is well taken care of. Allowing the decentralization of the market does not automatically allow freedom. I hope the Chinese regime is toppled and democratic reforms are ushered in.
Fuck you Tsukae.. learn your shit Communist China worships Mao. Have you ever fuckin been to China? He is the most beloved man in the country. Learn your shit before you speak.
I know he is beloved and all. He lead the Chinese people to becoming a major world power. I am just saying the party betrayed his ideals after he died. :P
Despite the mistakes Mao made, he was a passionate man who did great good for the Chinese people. Sucks the Communist Party in China betrayed him and the people by privatizing and shit. Maybe, someday, we will see China return to the glorious Socialist nation it once was.
That would be great. China has betrayed the Revolution! Mao would be ashamed to be in modern China. China must destroy capitalism and nationalise everything like Mao did.
@Tsukae as if Chin really wanted socialism, socialism doesn't work it was proven, and it almost destoried China... majority of the ppl don't want socialism, if somebody imposes socialism on China by force, China today would be like North Korea.........
@canadianfirzen In reality no Socialist nation has ever existed as employer/employee relations endured. This would mean that the PRC, USSR, and DPRK were all actually state-capitalist. Actual Socialism entails democratic control of the means of production by the working class.
@canadianfirzen Human desires? Do you mean human nature? It is a part of human nature to act in mutual aid of their fellow human being. It is a primary factor in evolutionary theory as a matter of fact. Read the book Mutual Aid.
@canadianfirzen What human desire? If that is a human desire why don't we kill our mothers? This strange idea of yours stems from your lack of understanding of evolutionary theory which depends upon mutual aid amongst the species even more so the mutual struggle within the species. We only ever developed language and lived in groups for our own mutual interests because strength and progress comes from unity and not discord. It is in our instincts to work together for our betterment is my point.
@Tsukae ur corporative nature and mutual aid exists, but it doesn't mean it is the only component of social behavior. Human's greed do exists as well. If u can't eliminate ppl's greed, how can u create an ideal world of socialism? The system itself is an ideology, and in fact a lot of ppl don't want this kinda of "equal". u can't force it upon them. socialism was proven to be not possible through implication. Especially for China, socialism would create disastrous result, so it is best not
@canadianfirzen I'm not saying it is the only component of social nature. What I am saying is that in the natural world it is more dominant. Greed does exist and that does not mean we won't have checks int eh system. I'm not talking about utopian nonsense. I'm not in anyway forcing it upon people. I am informing people of the alternatives. I am teaching people of the benefits of a democratic economy as opposed to our current economic situation where the few rule the toiling masses.
@Tsukae Then tell me wat did u mean by Mao is a passionate man who did great good for the Chin people? How can u check in a system where all the actual influence and policy comes from gov? If everythin was distributed by the gov, and everythin was based upon trust, the system is gonna collapse someday, becuz ppl always finds ways to get around a system. How do u no ur fellow workmate works as hard as u? This system itself is unjust becuz ppl can get the same reward with less effort!
@canadianfirzen Few is always gonna rule the mass, doesn't matter whether u have a socialist economy or not. Socialist economy can't be democratic, becuz once the economy becomes democratic, the economy would turn into capitalist economy, by then it is again few ruling the mass. The system of Socialism is full of holes, and it is actually against human nature. The shortcomings can't be fixed, therefore, it is best to go with a more natural system that majority chooses. Socialism is a dead end
@Tsukae how can u depend on others and trust their reliability? This system is full of self-defeatin nature. It destroys all the incentive for ppl to better themselves. Therefore, u will see ppl slackin off, and the whole country starves, as being proven by the Russians. This system is an ideology. Unless ppl don't have greed and don't have desires, this system would not be working properly.
@Tsukae .... great thing you still believe in it. I live in Venezuela and I can tell you that the Venezuelan people are getting sick and tired of this bad copy of Communism that Hugo Chavez is trying to impose on the country, destroying its economy and society. And..... letting at least 20 million Chinese die of starvation during the Great Leap Forward can't be viewed as a "mistake". It is a CRIME.
@Liuyifeng19 Deng had his good points, as did Mao. If Deng was a bit more leftist, I would bow before him. As it is, he opened up China far too much. Long live Comrade Mao Zedong! Long live China's New Left! Long live the People's Republic!
@Tsukae i hope u r fucking joking urself. I am Chinese myself, i love my country, but i will never want my country to get back to Cultural Revolution that destroyed 50% of all the historical items during those years.
To me, gloryfying a leader (or in mao's case, ruler) does not sound like a very socialist thing to do.
Mao was together with his buddy Stalin responsible for the perversion, corruption, and downfall of the worldwide communist movement. Building police states dressed up like socialist societies in stead of developing the forces for the emancipation of the international proletariat.
The cultural revolution was a vulgar display of stalinist crazyness.
@DeHeld8 .... mao and the revolution and the GPCR.... complex social phenomenon... but the video is great. and is quite beautiful in the socialist realist way... \
@MrReco12 Just read what he wrote? And the leftist organixations today Stand with imperialism. Like ISO, socialist worker etc... If you want to call yourself a leftist then you better Stand against Imperialims on all levels.
@DeHeld8 Mao's China was not a police state. There was no secret police. The Red Guards carried out the revolution. Chaotic it may be, but it was a dictatorship of the masses.
@Tsukae "Mistakes" you call them. Well . . . . He made the people stand up and China to be feared in the world. But as to the "mistakes," such as the Great Leap Forward, which created the greatest mass starvation in modern history--35 million starved to death, because the wheat refused to read the Little Red Book and grow where he wanted, and the gathered tin pots and farm implements made useless steel--plants will not grow in the soil of ideology, nor steel in the fire of political struggle.
@umavunga what are you? a soviet? if you are then fuck you... we Chinese planted those wheats so we can pay our debt to you soviets... what did your stalin said? "here China, we are friends, you can pay your debts later... hehehe..." but fuck! you force us to pay it or else your soviet will attack us... fuck you! what Mao said was true "we cannot depend on others, nor god, nor kings, nor the soviet will help us... we must depend on ourselves" fuck you for being ignorant!
Replace the "Silk" label with "Apple" on the crates (7:40) and you'll realize very little has changed in China. Mao's revolution has disappeared.
ffc313 1 week ago
Top commentor doesn't understand Dengist influence on Socialist Chinese Economics.
AtheismCentral 1 month ago
if you watch the entire thing, it almost makes you cry because once china was a socialist wonderland before dengxiaoping gave up the glorious ideal of communism for imperialist capitalism
llewisddiaz 2 months ago 3
Stop arguing about America vs. China. They aren't very different from each other. Both suffer an un-democratic government and the evils of unregulated capitalism.
Grapist217 2 months ago 10
guys....this was made BEFORE the cultural revolution....
Noobssuckass300 3 months ago
Stop arguing and enjoy this timeless and beautiful performance! Oh, but, long live the universal contributions of comrade Mao Zedong! :]
SamualTLedbetter 3 months ago in playlist The East is Red 9
the east was red :(
trincherasdeideas88 4 months ago
China has brought forth a Mao Zedong!
AtheismCentral 4 months ago
People say that this film is propaganda, but I don't think so, because I studied about the Chinese Revolution at school and it says exactly what is said at this film. Btw, I'm not from a socialist country, I'm from Brazil, a capitalist country, I studied in a private school during the times of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, aligned with Washington and with Clinton and Bush policies.
So, you can't say that I studied history thru "communist propaganda".
Corvusdotensis 4 months ago
@Corvusdotensis: I wish you understood how laughable it is that you sight "Clinton" policies as somehow being against the PRC. Clinton was $10 whore for Beijing. One of the biggest scandals of his administration was all the money the PRC gov't put into the Clinton political campaigns.
In 1964 (when this movie was made) the PRC had just completed the Great Leap Forward, which is commonly believed to have killed (mostly by starvation) about 40 million people. Shortly after this film Mao began..
VictorLepanto 4 months ago
@VictorLepanto: ...The Cultural Revolution, which killed a couple million more. Especially targetted in the Cultural Revolution were artist cultural types the performers in this movie. I was thinking as I watched this, how many of the performers here died a horrible violent death shortly after this performance? Ever hear of the PRC's own system of GULAG slave labor camps called Lao Gai?
VictorLepanto 4 months ago
@VictorLepanto
Man, don't waste your time with conspiracy theories! That was never proofed. However, it was proofed that he had sexual relations with M. Lewinsky and lied before the country.
On the Great Leap Foward, there are no proofs of such claims, only propaganda. US killed millions of people during it's formation. So, don't come with this nonsense, because only retards can believe that more people died in GLF than WWII.
Reactionaries always count 1 body as 100.000.
Corvusdotensis 4 months ago
@Corvusdotensis: You're nearly perfect in your ignorance. Such is the nature of a propagandist education. Not only is your head NOT filled w/ real information, it has been rendered immune to hearing the truth. 40 million dead under Mao is the low ball number. Some go as far as 70 million. You need to learn to think in terms of facts & not propagandist's ideological catagories. About 60 milloin died all of WWII, 20 million in China.
VictorLepanto 4 months ago
@VictorLepanto
Yeah, 40, 70 million, 100 million, the numbers always change according to the ignorance and hatress against China and Communism, then you just wake up.
Corvusdotensis 4 months ago
@VictorLepanto
The funny thing at such ignorants is how people without any study, statistics or serious research can defend such foolishness with conviction, as if he/she was a PhD or better saying, God itself, fulfilled with all the science to be absolutely right about something.
Corvusdotensis 4 months ago
@Corvusdotensis: There are numerous histories of WWII, there are numerous histories of the endless butcheries of the Maoist tyranny. The numbers are fairly consistant & the scholars have established a consensus. Including both Asia & European theaters, about 70 milloin died in WWII. Nearly 20 million died in China. On Mao; some people go as high as 70 million dead under his rule. Most low numbers hover around 40 million. Mao was one of the world's greatest disasters.
VictorLepanto 4 months ago
@VictorLepanto
There are numerous stories of ppl who saw ghosts, that does not mean that they exist. What can be affirmed without proofs may be discharged without proofs.
The only greatest disasters of world is called United States of America, after Hitler, it's the only champion in mass murders, all of them documented, taped and even praised by its government, Lybia, Sudan, former Iugoslavia, Guatemala, Filipines, Cuba, Iraq... without counting its numerous supports to bloody tyrants.
Corvusdotensis 4 months ago
@VictorLepanto
US is one of the champions of slaughtering of its own population. Of course people died in Chinese Revolution, it was a revolution, as many people died during American Independence struggle, but today in China, you find the Han, you find artists, singers, communists, anticommunists... differently to America, which killed most of its own native population, today in America it's rare to see an indian, they were nearly 100% eliminated.
Corvusdotensis 4 months ago
Communist Party in Chinese = La li Liang ?
Corvusdotensis 4 months ago
@Corvusdotensis communist party is 共产党 - gong chan dang
GermanOperaSinger 4 months ago
This is China's version of the swinging 60's. Yeah baby!
xtc340 4 months ago
我母亲最喜欢看的片子。我想她。。。。
glissefr 4 months ago
An overwhelming propaganda movie. I think that we must watch this movie in this respect. The Chinese communists had some help from Germany and the US in their struggle. In the early days of Chinese communism and during a part of the Long March, Mao´s role of the ultimate communist leader wasn´t all that clear and sure. Another matter is how certain minorities follow communism: the Tibetans, e.g., weren´t as eager to follow as was depicted at the end of the movie...
Eirene001 4 months ago
What a great combo of Chinese traditional and Western music, especially in the theme music.
jmramos0109 6 months ago
I like that in China they are not afraid of wearing traditional clothes.
Swordman85 6 months ago
Althougth Our Great Chairman Mao made many thing bad, Chairman Mao is our sun in our heart!!!!! HE BUILDED CHINA! HE MADE THE PRC! HE MADE CHINESE STAND IN THE WORLD!!!!!!
CommunistLenin 6 months ago
@CommunistLenin
It is a lie! HE did nothing wrong comrade! He made some mistakes but the great cultural revolution was a success with its destruction of the horrible anti feminist culture they had!
AtheismCentral 6 months ago
@AtheismCentral
i think you had missunderstand my word,sir!i wanted to say Chairman Mao is the greatest man in the world!
CommunistLenin 6 months ago
@CommunistLenin
I know you did, but I am just saying Mao did little wrong, a few errors in the great proletarian cultural revolution is not his fault :D
AtheismCentral 6 months ago
@AtheismCentral
Errors in the Cultural evolution?
Hardly, Read "The battle for China's past" by Mobo Goa. The problem was the great leap forward.
MrReco12 6 months ago
@MrReco12
The great leap foward did good as well, but anything has flaws. Comrade Stalin's system had flaws too, no one is perfect.
AtheismCentral 6 months ago
do not blame chairman mao because they do his part without mao china without nothing.... and beside do you know revisionism? a lot of Chinese have that kind of attitude when chairman past away they revisionist are playing inside the party....
TheAbakada121 7 months ago
fyi stalin and mao were *hardly* buddies....if you are going to slam mao...get your facts right.... they shared a similar method....but they were actually enemies... Mao defied stalin with the formation of the PRC.
sfadam 7 months ago
Only Lenin was a good socialist leader (he died very young, that was the death sentence to the communism), Stalin and Mao were a mass murderers.
if Lenin would had lived two decades more. the world would be now a better place
bublegumjp 7 months ago
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proec4x 7 months ago
This makes all the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s look like a walk in the park! It's awful!
pookerville 7 months ago
毛爷把你们打回去不高兴了是吧？傻逼~
这视频比现在的好看多了.
colinhuang930124 8 months ago
These dancers are brainwashed!
pookerville 8 months ago
In my opinion, this movie reflects what Hollywood musicals used to be: dance, music, song, and poetry. However, this stands as the ultimate ego trip for the CCP! The entire concept of Communism sucks!
pookerville 8 months ago
beautiful Beijing. ^^
16jhuang 8 months ago
好干。。。
liyida1995 9 months ago
Mao was a disaster for China! His cultural revolution killed 30 million chinese and china lost an entire generation! Why is everything censored in China?! Why do they throw wonderful Chinese heroes like Ai wei wei in prison just for asking for freedom of speech (which is in china's constitution)? May Mao rot in hell for the suffering he gave to the Chinese people!
TheTruthinchina 10 months ago
@TheTruthinchina Mao actually encouraged the people of China to criticise the government. Let's name a couple of policies: the Hundred Flowers Movement and the Bombard the Headquarters movement.
MrOldMajor 10 months ago
毛賊共匪!
calvinwong1992918 10 months ago
高舉救世主毛澤東思想；打倒一切牛鬼蛇神、邪惡軸心基督教！殲滅漢奸集團支聯會！
horseatsea 10 months ago
Screw Mao Tse Tung! Communism is something we can do without. Down with the Chinese Communist Party! Freedom for China!
pookerville 10 months ago
When I was little kid, I didn't find this very interesting becasue I didn't have the artistic knowledge to appreciate this epic work. Now I am older, I realize that this is really a great piece of art work.
youdongxi57 11 months ago
The East is red ! The sun is rising ! Long live the People's Republic
Soon the whole world will be red, the sun is setting on capitalist tyranny and oppression. What a great day when the sun finally shines on a free world...
wnxsilence 1 year ago
During the GLF, tragic as this period was, less people as a proportion of the population died than at any consecutive 3 or 4 year period in pre-revolutionary China. That is pre-revolutionary China had conditions on average far worse than the GLF. Charlatans like Jung Chang and Dikotter calculate excess deaths based on inflated mortality rates, and assuming an incredibly low 'normal' mortality of 10/1000 - but to be consistent they should credit lives saved due to this low mortality rate.
RiseOfAsia 1 year ago
Chairman Mao was probably saved more lives than any other man in history. Life expectancy went from 33 in 1949 to 65 in 1976. The fastest rate of increase in life expectancy in history. There is a Yale study on this great achievement of revolutionary China. China's life expectancy at the time of his death was higher than that of India's today, and much higher than any other developing country of the time. Mao laid the foundation of the independent flourishing China.
RiseOfAsia 1 year ago
We Chinese all over the world will always be eternally grateful to Chairman Mao. We will cherish his memory deep in our hearts. Without Mao-Zedong, there would be no new China!
Los chinos del mundo entero le estaremos eternamente agradecidos al Presidente Mao. Guardaremos su memoria en lo más profundo de nuestros corazones. Sin Mao-Zedong no existiría una nueva China!
theredsmurf13 1 year ago
It should be noted that there was a five minute overture of the "Internationale" (reprised in the finale) which then opens over a prologue (text) prior to this sequence... Is there a version available with the english subs ?
currypuff93 1 year ago
Long live Comrade Mao,
Eternal strength and progress to the People's Republic !!!
The liberation of 1949 will never be forgotten in the hearts of all Chinese.
ZhongguoQianjin 1 year ago
All that "progress" harvested not one grain of rice, produced not one ingot of steel, created not one educated scientist capable of analytical research, built no houses nor roads, cured not one person of any disease, nor created even one lasting edifice in tangible service to the people.
Learn from farmers, their real needs and requirements for the soil to yield its treasures. Learn from steel mills, factories, spinning mills, what is really needed to produce tangible goods for the people!
umavunga 1 year ago
@umavunga u know what? u know no shit! but keep pushing out shits from your mouth... for you are a shit-brained-scum...
LinWeiHuang 1 year ago
The one bourgeois intellectual who disliked this is a fucking bourgeois intellectual.
man8785 1 year ago
01:57 The song starts
ilovepowerboted 1 year ago
Thanks Richien for uploading this video.I cried when i saw this video.Made me proud to be chinese and never shame for it.Mao Zedong made China from Capitalism to Communist ,because we were tired to be a slaved country,a dependency to Britains,Japanese and more. Mao Zedong did right.I'm proud to knowing my grandfather and his parents were in Mao Zedong side and was joined 'The long March'. Once again,Thanks for uploading this video :')
Long Live Mao Zedong & Communism!
ilovepowerboted 1 year ago
I'm no fan of mao, but this song's kinda catchy
DopeyCatfish 1 year ago
就是有些歌词比较雷人。抛开这点，歌真好听，姑娘们真漂亮，小伙儿真帅气，民族服饰也好看，舞蹈也好看
logiko1113 1 year ago
如果当年是鬼子胜利了，那么他们歌颂的就是日本人，一群没血性，没人性，没尊严，没脑子只知道肉麻吹捧主子狗奴才
ding467469 1 year ago
Mao, "If we plant 10 million seeds per acre, 10 million plants will grow up!"
connorpadraig 1 year ago
I think that Mao originally started with the right idea. Liberating the Chinese people and improving the standard of living. However, his bad decision making, paranoia of others betraying him, and setting himself as something of a god; are why I dislike him. Deng Xiaopping later fixed many of Mao's mistakes, but markets conflict with communist theory and opening up has led to many problems in the country as well.
yuyuyu25 1 year ago 2
Kinda like the Chinese version of the "Triumph of the Will" film.
Wellpinit 1 year ago
Highest quality YouTube version of The East is Red.
BENHARRIS1955 1 year ago 10
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I'm looking at all of these pro-Maoist comments here and I'm genuinely confused as to why this generation of Chinese have become so blind to the errors of the past. My grandparents and parents and an entire generation of Chinese are utterly disillusioned with Communism and with good reason. It does not do to confuse nationalistic pride with a specific political ideology.
Arangutang 1 year ago
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mauvaisvers 1 year ago
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rapson84 1 year ago
I prefer the instrumental introduction more than the actual song.
rapson84 1 year ago
LOL say what you like about the cultural revolution, but this song is pretty epic sounding.
Eruaphadriel 1 year ago
No matter takes the political issue in account or not, still this performance is one of the greatest performing art in history since PRC established.
Just imagine, in that status, the country was lacking of resources. However, they still insisted to put this performance out. It just like they tried their best to tell the world that they were strong enough after WWII.
Is there anything that we can learn from this performance (from the stage to the concept which behind the show)?
blueskyandland 1 year ago
Sailors take warning.
FlynnLindley 1 year ago
Competence and good character in government are more important than which ideology you follow. - I don't care if it's a black cat or white cat, if it catches mice it is a good cat.
Mao was a great leader and Deng a great leader. Certainly in recent decades China has been run in a more competent and sensible manner than Western nations obsessed with the illusion and deceit of neoliberalism.
Karlzberg414 1 year ago
Thank God the days are behind us when large portions of the world's population lived under tolitarian systems. China may not be perfect now, but it seems that people have much more freedom than they did then.
ptaaffe 1 year ago
Never forget the struggles of our revolutionary past!
毛主席万岁!
中华人民共和国万岁!
ComradeLance 1 year ago
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maritimezhang 1 year ago
Chairman Mao!
ivanenrile 1 year ago 7
It's important to realise that idealism and leader worship didn't get big just because of Mao. As other videos on youtube show, the more market-leaning leaders, after seeing his great leap forward fail, put him in a figurehead position so that they could implement economic recovery programme whilst he wrote more for his published works (hongbaoshu[little red book])and so all that backfired since the masses, still poor by 1966, were now set up to embrace propaganda and get emotional/rowdy/violent
OsamaBinWeinstein 1 year ago
The Chinese people will forever respect the great leader from the deep hearts! Please be aware that there was no nation concept in the period at the beginning of the 20th century. It was Chairman Mao who united China!
lihongzhi0 1 year ago 3
I haven't read much about the modern history of China (but I am reading more about it) but I think the only thing mao was good for was creating a united nation...if you look back at how fragmented China was during warlord era / foreign imperialism, it's amazing how he brought together so many people into one nation. China's clout on the world stage today is because it's the biggest nation on earth, thanks to Mao. However, Mao's economic policy was fully abandoned by the time of Deng,thank god!
Togepi271 1 year ago
@Togepi271 modern day Qin Shi Huang...killed millions, burnt books, oppressed people but unified China, and look at how China flourished after Qin dynasty...in the same way, China will surge and flourish after Mao
Togepi271 1 year ago
@Togepi271 Killed millions? Please provide us data. Maybe he did kill members of the reactionary bourgeois class who themselves lead systematic massacres against poor Chinese workers and peasants. On the other hand, leaders of the imperialist system, especially U$ of AmeriKKKa continue to massacre and oppress hundreds of millions of people from the Third World but we don't hear much about the crimes of these imperialist-fascist leaders because they control the media!
4everdbskify 1 year ago 3
@4everdbskify Maybe they are also taking it against Mao those people who died because of the flooding of the Yangtze River! Hahaha! Funny people, they love to blabber invectives and lies against things and people they know nothing of in the first place
ivanenrile 1 year ago
@4everdbskify my grandpa was jailed by Mao for being an anti-revolutionary under no grounds whatsoever. Many "anti-revolutionaries" died. If you really think America is such an oppressive terrible country, then ask yourself why there are so many people wanting to get in this country? Mao starved many people to death in the Great Leap Forward and my mom had to endure that. I suggest you study your history more before mudslinging our country that gives you the freedom of speech to curse it!
dougradtke 7 months ago
@dougradtke Sure American's get freedom of speech, and inalienable rights, a government made by the people for the people. While Americans enjoy the luxuries of freedom, other countries around the world are paying the price for something they didn't deserve. Some countries, happy and prosperous, destroyed in one fell swoop, and all for what? Honduras, Bolivia, Argentina, Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma, just to name a few had became "special interests", their "dictators" were sponsored by the CIA.
contractki11er 7 months ago
@contractki11er What does any of that have to do with Mao, jailing anti-revolutionaries, and more people dying in the "Great Leap Forward" than the Holocaust? How about Cambodia which you left off your list I'm sure everyone had a great time with Pole Pot and the Khmer Rouge running the show.
So what would you do? Disband the CIA? Everything done against international communism at the time, was believed to be in international policy's best interest for America. Hindsight is 20/20.
dougradtke 7 months ago
@contractki11er
do you know what are you talking about? please read more..... then analyzed it.... America his power are slowly going down the America has planned to stay in power by 2020
TheAbakada121 7 months ago
这就是社会主义公有制中国时代,资本主义腐朽贪婪堕落在金融海啸面前彻底暴露出来.中国的权贵资本主义违背毛主席路线,背叛革命,出卖灵魂.必将遭到东方红的彻底大批判.毛主席万岁,中国无产阶级万岁,社会主义公有制中国万岁!
franklu8 1 year ago
毛主席万岁！中华文明的伟大复兴万岁！
Doooku 1 year ago 2
中国的历史很有意思。 我学中文。 我的中文怎么样？？？
silverio1942 1 year ago
@silverio1942 you suck
Melvinisawesome 1 year ago
The Chinese are doing quite well since they are going through a period of rapid expansion, but there is a large lower class in the cities and countryside that are not in a particularly better position than before privatization. Living conditions have improved for skilled workers and those involved in business though.
Tsukae 1 year ago
They went down a similar path as the Soviet Union and if you think Russia is any more democratic now then you need to pull your head out of your ass. Many of the other former Soviet states have achieved greater democracy though. I want China to allow political freedom and democracy, but I also want a populace that is well taken care of. Allowing the decentralization of the market does not automatically allow freedom. I hope the Chinese regime is toppled and democratic reforms are ushered in.
Tsukae 1 year ago
Actually doing that took them down the same revisionist path as the Soviet Union.
Tsukae 2 years ago
沒有國民黨就沒現在富足的台灣~
沒有共產黨就沒有現在統一的中國~
沒有毛澤東就沒有現在偉大的共產黨~
中國要統一~統一在中國~~
否則台灣只有當冤大頭
付錢買美國牛肉買美國砲彈的分~~
bill200491 2 years ago
别不服,就是没有毛泽东和共产党中国人民也一样把国民党打掉因为它给人民和国家带来太多的灾难,连民进党都做得到还有什么党做不到?中共现在有7000万党员,相当于一个大国的人口, 肯定有腐败分子,但是它仍然是当今最好的党. 别不服.
zhngwn 2 years ago
在评论毛泽东之前先问问你自己是谁. 有没有资格说三道四.
zhngwn 2 years ago
煮豆燃豆萁，
豆在釜中泣，
本是同根生，
相煎何太急.
battwann88 2 years ago 3
對呀weiwong2
毛主席真是中國的帶路人啊
大躍進失敗造成4000萬人死亡
問問你爺爺在文革時是怎過吧
imissyhy324 2 years ago
為何不能問爸爸?
yingbe88 2 years ago
你也可以问问台湾人的爷爷在228中是怎么过的~
zhuhaoyue1013 2 years ago
@zhuhaoyue1013
228四個月
大躍進飢荒三年
wangttang 2 years ago
嗯~是啊~两岸都犯错误~不过大小不同而已~
zhuhaoyue1013 2 years ago
2:22 Violin, Dizi, Chinese violins and piccolo play together
jmramos0109 2 years ago
2:12 Joint Western-Chinese orchestra, Bo cymbals clash
jmramos0109 2 years ago 2
东方红仍然是！
kjs1968 2 years ago
Fuck you Tsukae.. learn your shit Communist China worships Mao. Have you ever fuckin been to China? He is the most beloved man in the country. Learn your shit before you speak.
TheDylancramer 2 years ago 2
Tell him, Dylancramer!
jasabbott 2 years ago
I know he is beloved and all. He lead the Chinese people to becoming a major world power. I am just saying the party betrayed his ideals after he died. :P
Tsukae 2 years ago
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how come theres no black people here..?
doesn't seem too fair of them. Can't they at least import a couple of token black people.
MargaritasAntesPorco 2 years ago
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u wanna know why theres no black people in this movie? cuz no one likes niggers. niggers = shit. THAT"S WHY BITCH.
dh144498 2 years ago
毛主席 爱人民， 他是我们的 带路人
为了建设 建设 新中国，呼儿嗨哟，领导我们向前进！
weiwong2 2 years ago 11
sugoi...
similinkiti 2 years ago
I've been wishing to see this for many, many years. I'm not disappointed. Even has english subtitles
Stunning!
Thanks for uploading.
bluezappy 2 years ago 10
Despite the mistakes Mao made, he was a passionate man who did great good for the Chinese people. Sucks the Communist Party in China betrayed him and the people by privatizing and shit. Maybe, someday, we will see China return to the glorious Socialist nation it once was.
Tsukae 2 years ago 19
That would be great. China has betrayed the Revolution! Mao would be ashamed to be in modern China. China must destroy capitalism and nationalise everything like Mao did.
AntinousIsGod1 2 years ago
@Tsukae as if Chin really wanted socialism, socialism doesn't work it was proven, and it almost destoried China... majority of the ppl don't want socialism, if somebody imposes socialism on China by force, China today would be like North Korea.........
canadianfirzen 1 year ago
@canadianfirzen In reality no Socialist nation has ever existed as employer/employee relations endured. This would mean that the PRC, USSR, and DPRK were all actually state-capitalist. Actual Socialism entails democratic control of the means of production by the working class.
Tsukae 1 year ago
@Tsukae ...... as if it could happen, ppl who thinks this will work is naive... humans have desires, and it's impossible to destory it....
canadianfirzen 1 year ago
@canadianfirzen Human desires? Do you mean human nature? It is a part of human nature to act in mutual aid of their fellow human being. It is a primary factor in evolutionary theory as a matter of fact. Read the book Mutual Aid.
Tsukae 1 year ago
@Tsukae it is human desire that drives ppl to destory others, and this can't be eliminated
canadianfirzen 1 year ago
@canadianfirzen What human desire? If that is a human desire why don't we kill our mothers? This strange idea of yours stems from your lack of understanding of evolutionary theory which depends upon mutual aid amongst the species even more so the mutual struggle within the species. We only ever developed language and lived in groups for our own mutual interests because strength and progress comes from unity and not discord. It is in our instincts to work together for our betterment is my point.
Tsukae 1 year ago
@Tsukae ur corporative nature and mutual aid exists, but it doesn't mean it is the only component of social behavior. Human's greed do exists as well. If u can't eliminate ppl's greed, how can u create an ideal world of socialism? The system itself is an ideology, and in fact a lot of ppl don't want this kinda of "equal". u can't force it upon them. socialism was proven to be not possible through implication. Especially for China, socialism would create disastrous result, so it is best not
canadianfirzen 1 year ago
@canadianfirzen I'm not saying it is the only component of social nature. What I am saying is that in the natural world it is more dominant. Greed does exist and that does not mean we won't have checks int eh system. I'm not talking about utopian nonsense. I'm not in anyway forcing it upon people. I am informing people of the alternatives. I am teaching people of the benefits of a democratic economy as opposed to our current economic situation where the few rule the toiling masses.
Tsukae 1 year ago
@Tsukae Then tell me wat did u mean by Mao is a passionate man who did great good for the Chin people? How can u check in a system where all the actual influence and policy comes from gov? If everythin was distributed by the gov, and everythin was based upon trust, the system is gonna collapse someday, becuz ppl always finds ways to get around a system. How do u no ur fellow workmate works as hard as u? This system itself is unjust becuz ppl can get the same reward with less effort!
canadianfirzen 1 year ago
@canadianfirzen Few is always gonna rule the mass, doesn't matter whether u have a socialist economy or not. Socialist economy can't be democratic, becuz once the economy becomes democratic, the economy would turn into capitalist economy, by then it is again few ruling the mass. The system of Socialism is full of holes, and it is actually against human nature. The shortcomings can't be fixed, therefore, it is best to go with a more natural system that majority chooses. Socialism is a dead end
canadianfirzen 1 year ago
@Tsukae how can u depend on others and trust their reliability? This system is full of self-defeatin nature. It destroys all the incentive for ppl to better themselves. Therefore, u will see ppl slackin off, and the whole country starves, as being proven by the Russians. This system is an ideology. Unless ppl don't have greed and don't have desires, this system would not be working properly.
canadianfirzen 1 year ago
@Tsukae .... great thing you still believe in it. I live in Venezuela and I can tell you that the Venezuelan people are getting sick and tired of this bad copy of Communism that Hugo Chavez is trying to impose on the country, destroying its economy and society. And..... letting at least 20 million Chinese die of starvation during the Great Leap Forward can't be viewed as a "mistake". It is a CRIME.
avginkel 1 year ago
@Tsukae wtf fuck that china rocks with captilism
long live deng xiao ping and his thinking
Liuyifeng19 1 year ago
@Liuyifeng19 Deng had his good points, as did Mao. If Deng was a bit more leftist, I would bow before him. As it is, he opened up China far too much. Long live Comrade Mao Zedong! Long live China's New Left! Long live the People's Republic!
AugustFirst1927 1 year ago
@Tsukae great comment
houzheng100 1 year ago
@Tsukae i hope u r fucking joking urself. I am Chinese myself, i love my country, but i will never want my country to get back to Cultural Revolution that destroyed 50% of all the historical items during those years.
zyxy3k 1 year ago
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@Tsukae
Listen to the text of this song.
To me, gloryfying a leader (or in mao's case, ruler) does not sound like a very socialist thing to do.
Mao was together with his buddy Stalin responsible for the perversion, corruption, and downfall of the worldwide communist movement. Building police states dressed up like socialist societies in stead of developing the forces for the emancipation of the international proletariat.
The cultural revolution was a vulgar display of stalinist crazyness.
DeHeld8 1 year ago 7
@DeHeld8 .... mao and the revolution and the GPCR.... complex social phenomenon... but the video is great. and is quite beautiful in the socialist realist way... \
sfadam 8 months ago
@sfadam
I must admit the music is rather stirring. But this stuff in't socialist nor realist.
DeHeld8 8 months ago
@DeHeld8 yea your a trotsky reactionary who allies with Imperialism that killed FAAAAAAAAR more than Stalin or Mao.
RedMusicSinging 7 months ago
@RedMusicSinging
Trotsky never allied with "imperialism", have you got any evidence?
MrReco12 6 months ago
@MrReco12 Just read what he wrote? And the leftist organixations today Stand with imperialism. Like ISO, socialist worker etc... If you want to call yourself a leftist then you better Stand against Imperialims on all levels.
RedMusicSinging 6 months ago
@DeHeld8 Mao's China was not a police state. There was no secret police. The Red Guards carried out the revolution. Chaotic it may be, but it was a dictatorship of the masses.
MrOldMajor 6 months ago
@Tsukae Holy WHAT?!
XinBiDe 1 year ago
@Tsukae "Mistakes" you call them. Well . . . . He made the people stand up and China to be feared in the world. But as to the "mistakes," such as the Great Leap Forward, which created the greatest mass starvation in modern history--35 million starved to death, because the wheat refused to read the Little Red Book and grow where he wanted, and the gathered tin pots and farm implements made useless steel--plants will not grow in the soil of ideology, nor steel in the fire of political struggle.
umavunga 1 year ago
@umavunga what are you? a soviet? if you are then fuck you... we Chinese planted those wheats so we can pay our debt to you soviets... what did your stalin said? "here China, we are friends, you can pay your debts later... hehehe..." but fuck! you force us to pay it or else your soviet will attack us... fuck you! what Mao said was true "we cannot depend on others, nor god, nor kings, nor the soviet will help us... we must depend on ourselves" fuck you for being ignorant!
LinWeiHuang 1 year ago
@Tsukae
Anything but China being a rich and powerful country! Better that it return to what it was thirty years ago... ^^
Grigor50 1 year ago
@Tsukae You are sadly mistaken!!! This man was a murderer!! And Socialism is only a step to Communism. There is nothing glorious about not beig free!
1animalhouse1 11 months ago
@1animalhouse1 Do research on Communism Capitalist Scum.
cadorrune 10 months ago
So excited. Love it
2yc7 2 years ago 2
grandiose, though in "socialist realism"..!!!
reggaemn 2 years ago 2
Long live, Chairman Mao!
lihongzhi0 2 years ago 34
06:21
KASP1 2 years ago
Awesome and inspiring production, and yet I wonder
how many of the cast members were left standing
after the Cultural Revolution.
docjhp 2 years ago 11
Outstanding. Nice to see this again after so long. I will have to look for this on DVD.
zaruka 2 years ago
thank you thank you thank you, i had lost the vcd.
soulrebel888 2 years ago
I have been wanting to see this for a while, thank you!
juankenon 2 years ago 4
Thats my Grandpa doing the narration! So proud!
Boy its been a long time.
pgss04 2 years ago 6
Are you serious?! Thats your grandpa! I learned my Chinese tones and inflections from him!
chromelemon 2 years ago
holy crap, check out the orchestra, you could be playing at 15th Violin
bailyrg 2 years ago 2
5月根据革命服务总是在解放中国人民。是的，东方红！
kjs1968 2 years ago
Thanks for posting.
silezukuk 3 years ago 2
DUO XIE!!!!!!!!!
chromelemon 3 years ago