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To: fuzzylogic

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/07/mao-little-general-horror-cultural-revolution

Thousands of teenage hands rocketed skywards as the Great Helmsman stepped down from the rostrum in Tiananmen Square to greet the shock troops of his revolution. It was the summer of 1966 and Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution – a catastrophic political convulsion that would catapult China into a decade of heartbreak, humiliation and deadly violence – was under way.


7 posted on 01/29/2019 8:23:22 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: gunsequalfreedom

#7. About the same time period when Communist Party Red Diaper Baby/Member Bettina Aptheker (lovelingly referred to by a bunch of old anti-Communists as “Bettina Batcrapper”), was raising the red flag of revolution at Berkeley.

Coincidence, I’m sure.


25 posted on 01/29/2019 11:20:58 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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