[dynachrome]

I think he is the face of evil. The banality of evil. And a traitor.

"Arriving as a GI interpreter at the end of World War II,"

It is on Amazon prime.

[dynachrome]

He still has an autographed copy of Mao’s “little red book”

[immadashell]

And we let him back in???

[DesertRhino]

What a low life.

[Leaning Right]

> he twice ran afoul of the leadership, and served a total of 16 years in solitary confinement <

And that is an important lesson for Leftists. Play revolutionary if you want to. But understand that sooner or later you will be the target of a purge.

[Fai Mao]

Rittenberg was not the only American to defect to the PRC at that time. There was also Sydney Shapiro. He worked in the translation (i.e. Propaganda) bureau in Beijing.

I met him way back in the late 1990’s. He was sort of way out there. He was not imprisoned in the cultural revolution but his Chinese wife was. He thought it was just a misunderstanding. He wrote the book, “An American in China” The book is a fun read just because it so obviously a pack of political lies.

For demonstration purposes only, a link to Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/American-China-Sidney-Shapiro/dp/0452005426