Posted on 05/18/2016 4:29:45 PM PDT by dynachrome
Michael Crook, a Briton whose Communist father moved to China before the Second World War, was one of a handful of foreigners living in the country when Mao launched an all-out class war. snip Far from worrying that he too could come under suspicion because of his Western background, he was among the first of his classmates to sign up for the Red Guard – the fanatical student group that became the revolution’s most devoted enforcers. snipThat Mr Crook is unapologetic about the Mao era is perhaps unsurprising given his family history.
His father, David, fought for the Communists in the Spanish civil war, and became a spy tasked by Stalin with infiltrating Trotskyist groups in China.
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This thug will be one of the new masters
50 million dead and he is proud of it.
Why is he not up on charges for crimes against humanity?
BALONEY. There were TONS of people who know the thugism of Mao and his gangs of five or whatever. THEY knew.
Mao had the Red Army behind him so he could do WHATEVER he wanted WHENEVER he wanted to WHOMEVER he wanted.
He had ABSOLUTE power...no mistake, and those fools who didn't see that were doomed.
Yeah. Millions of murdered human beings is a “mistake” to filth like Crook. What a horrible horrible man. If you can call anyone this degraded a “man”.
What was funny is that there were rival groups of Red Guards that would fight each other, because they thought the other wasn’t hardcore enough.
Then you're a monster.
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.
The Chinese people, their souls, will not recover from Mao for many, many more generations. Their hearts are crippled from unimaginable horror.
I had the opportunity to talk to Sidney Shapiro in the early 1990’s. He was the same way. His wife was even imprisoned by the Maoist government but it was all just a big mistake.
He was totally convinced that communism was wonderful despite the evidence
If there was one person in history I could bring back to life it would be Mao....
So i could chain his evil ass up, hook him into a life support machine and torture him indefinitely even after his body gave up before sending him to hell again for a second time.
Copious amounts of lemon juice, that jelly fish that has a sting so bad it can drive people to insanity, spiders, scorpions, and other bugs with painful bites, and various pain enhancing pharmaceuticals would be used.
And the Bastard Mao would deserve so much more pain than i could ever give him.
I would consider it a parting gift before he makes his way to hell.
I would do it even if it meant I went to hell because Mao would deserve at least a century in the mortal world for what he did to china.
"Just as much upheaval"? Uh, no. There were those million and a half deaths that make all the difference.
This man is a liar and a murderer and a thoroughly disgusting human being.
Yet, as the revolution began to see friend turn on friend, neighbour turn on neighbour, and child turn on parent, even the Crook family’s status as communist aristocracy could not protect them.In 1967, David Crook [his father] was imprisoned. His mother Isabel, a Canadian-born missionary, was jailed a year later.
David was eventually released in 1973, at which time Michael was allowed to leave China to study in the UK after a personal intervention by Zhou Enlai, the Chinese premier.
It's about the 50th anniversary of our cultural revolution and it's been more successful here over the long run.
It's still going on.
Sort of like Moslems?
Kind of like muslimes today
He says he didn’t participate in the violent acts committed by the Red Brigades. This, of course, means he definitely committed acts of violence. Commies don’t know how to tell the truth.
During the Paris student riots in 1968, many of the students were under the spell of Mao. And many of those students went on to become the leaders in the French government.
This is a great book that exposes what a cruel, lazy, shiftless, no good ahole Mao was. Not particularly bright either, but cunning and lucky. I never finished reading it but what I got through was an eye opener.
http://www.amazon.com/Mao-Story-Jung-Chang/dp/0679746323
The sad thing is that if Mao had quietly solicited advice from qualified metallurgists, farmers, and industrial experts he could have MASSIVELY benefited China even if he was still a heavy-handed glory hound. Instead he winged his 5-year plans that implemented ideas with the worldly knowledge of a preschooler on an entire nation and God help the man who contradicted him.
A bunch of South Koreans agree with you.
(As soon as I typed that my mouth started watering ... I miss Kimchee)
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