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China suppresses horrific history of cannibalism
Hindustan Times ^ | 05/11/2016 | By AFP, Wuxuan

Posted on 05/22/2021 12:56:03 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

At the height of the frenzy of China’s Cultural Revolution, victims were eaten at macabre “flesh banquets”, but 50 years after the turmoil began, the Communist Party is suppressing remembrance and historical reckoning of the era and its excesses.

Launched by Mao in 1966 to topple his political enemies after the failure of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution saw a decade of violence and destruction nationwide as party-led class conflict devolved into social chaos.

Teenaged Red Guards beat teachers to death for being “counter-revolutionaries” and family members denounced one another while factions clashed bitterly for control across the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at hindustantimes.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: cannibalism; china; communism; culturalrevolution; maoism; maotsetung; maozedong; prc; redchina; wuxuan
Published in 2016. The horrors of communism Chinese style.
1 posted on 05/22/2021 12:56:03 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

It’s been going on for a long time.
Among the writings of Albert Fish (yes, *that* Albert Fish) that were examined prior to his execution, there was a journal he wrote about sailing to China in 1894 as a Merchant Seaman, and seeing and hearing about cannibalism going on over there.

Quite a few scholars have wondered if that might have been one of the things that made him eventually want to try cooking and eating children for himself...


2 posted on 05/22/2021 1:02:13 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Kid Shelleen

How any of the Chinese came out of the Cultural Revolution with even a shred of their sanity is beyond me.

Horrible, Horrible time in China’s History.


3 posted on 05/22/2021 1:09:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Remember this crap every time they talk about giving up our guns… Same assholes, different time.


4 posted on 05/22/2021 1:12:28 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

History? They still eat baby fetuses…


5 posted on 05/22/2021 1:13:06 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Russia also has a cannibal island, for when people were shipped to gulags.


6 posted on 05/22/2021 1:18:45 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Is it going on now with the Uyghurs and other “undesirables?”

There is some video floating around “out there” that some say is very convincing.


7 posted on 05/22/2021 1:20:51 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Marked.


8 posted on 05/22/2021 1:33:06 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Jonty30

don’t forget the Ukrainian famine of 30-32, Stalin starved up to 4 million to make a point.


9 posted on 05/22/2021 1:39:18 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Bookmark


10 posted on 05/22/2021 1:48:27 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: NFHale

Remember this crap every time they want to tell us how evil America is.


11 posted on 05/22/2021 1:53:41 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: SoConPubbie

Cannibalism itself wouldnt have had any real effect on the national psyche. Its a Chinese story repeated over and over again. During the wars of times past men from the whole of the rural areas were conscripted and killed in battle. With the crops then failed those alive were left to do what was necessary.

Of course this time it seems it was nore ritualized at least by some. While that may have made it more abhorent to part of the population it also may have made it even more acceptable to others and that certainly would have had an effect.


12 posted on 05/22/2021 1:55:19 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: SoConPubbie

How any of the Chinese came out of the Cultural Revolution with even a shred of their sanity is beyond me.

Horrible, Horrible time in China’s History.

A great first person account of the horrors of the cultural revolution in China is “Life and Death in Shanghai” by Nien Chang. took What the book reveals, beyond the horror, is how many of the followers of the revolution really didn’t believe in it, but just were willing to go along and do whatever they were told if they thought they were on the “winning” side. It shows how the majority of people are without any core values or beliefs.


13 posted on 05/22/2021 2:17:39 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Coming soon if the dems have their way.


14 posted on 05/22/2021 2:39:58 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Careful what you order in a chicom restaurant!


15 posted on 05/22/2021 3:05:21 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The book Scarlet Memorial was published even earlier.


16 posted on 05/22/2021 3:47:55 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
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