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During China's Cultural Revolution, nearly all Tibet's monasteries were ransacked and destroyed by the Red Guards. Estimates put at more than 1.2 million Tibetans, one-fifth of the country's population. Over 6,000 monasteries, temples and other cultural and historical buildings were destroyed and their contents destroyed or pillaged.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution was launched by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966. It was an attempt to rid China of so-called capitalist roaders and to restore Maos power within the party. In the end, the Revolution intended to save the country ultimately destroyed it. The Cultural Revolution eliminated the freedom of people all over China for a time span of over 10 years and greatly injured the country both economically and culturally; from this we can learn that stifling a groups free will can have negative effects on the stability of the entire country.

During the Cultural Revolution many pieces of art and historically significant artifacts were destroyed; this was a severe blow to Chinas culture. One of the first victims of the Cultural Revolution was a play. Hai Rui Dismissed from Office depicted a man who criticized the emperor as a hero. When the Cultural Revolution began, this play was seen as an attack on Mao and its author was imprisoned. In 1966, Mao called on the Red Guards, Maos followers, to destroy Four Olds (previous Chinese objects, customs, habits, and ideas). Priceless historical objects were now dangerous items of a dangerous past. Homes and shops of those thought to be counterrevolutionary were raided and anything that was suspected of being feudal or bourgeois was [destroyed] (Buckley). From this destruction, the Revolution hoped to establish a new culture. New names, new customs and new habits glittering with the proletarian revolutionary spirit, have added boundless glory to our great capital, the centre of the proletarian revolution (It's Fine) stated a Chinese newspaper at the time. The same paper goes on to praise this destruction: The proletarian revolutionary rebel spirit of the Red Guards is very good indeed! (It's Fine) The Chinese governments con job swindled an entire nation into supporting the destruction of its very own culture as well as the persecution of its finest artists under the guise of progress.

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[Manongjojo]

This is a version of the US democratic party. LOL

[TheLukerlol]

this is the past. Mao is dead. I'm not saying this is correct at all and its actually pretty hard to watch cause im Chinese and from now on look forward. WHERE THE HECK DO YOU SEE THIS IN YOUR DAILY NEWS? STOP calling this a horrible country. It all was the will of one bad guy and this was the damn past

[tariqziyad]

@jeflomz this was cultural revolution...had nothing to do with Communism asshole. China has benefited from it too.

[jeflomz]

Fuck Communism...the worst stupid idea that ever exist in history

[3slowhand]

communism is just another form of human slavery.

[hoychristopher1]

my grandparents were professors during the cultural revolution. they have told me some really fucked up stories about what the red guard did to them

[FearlessHmomgGirl]

thats some fucked up shit

[jacksta246]

@ApprenticeOfAnubis

Really i had no idea