Former Red Guard regrets causing mother's death during Cultural Revolution

SCMP ^ | Wednesday, 07 August, 2013 | Jeremy Blum

[Zhang Fei]

A former Red Guard is seeking repentance for accusing his mother of being a “counter-revolutionary” during the Cultural Revolution - an act that led to her execution.

Zhang Hongbing is a 60-year-old lawyer from Anhui province and a far cry from the young boy who accused his mother of anti-Maoist comments 46 years ago. Two months after the accusation, his mother was executed by firing squad, and Zhang has lived a life of regret ever since.

“I will never be able to forgive myself,” Zhang said in a recent interview with The Beijing News.

Originally a member of the Red Guard, a social movement of young people organised during the Cultural Revolution, Zhang denounced his mother in 1970 after she criticised Mao Zedong’s policies, burned a picture of the Chinese leader and expressed support for Liu Shaoqi, former Chinese head of state and one of Mao’s political rivals. He was 16 at the time.

“I was shocked that the very image of her in my mind completely changed,” Zhang said. “In my eyes, she was no longer my mother, but an enemy.”

[Zhang Fei]

Guy gets his mom killed on a charge of blaspheming Mao and regrets it 4 decades later. What a putz.

[PowderMonkey]

Given that rodeo clowns are now declared enemies of the Sate, I suspect there will be a great deal of similar regret expressed in this country in the not too distant future.

[joethedrummer]

Coming soon - to a household near YOU.

Thank you, lefties who just gotta be ‘cool’...

[rightwingintelligentsia]

“In my eyes, she was no longer my mother, but an enemy.”

Most likely because he was so indoctrinated by the Communist youth group he belonged to. Obama acolytes are hoping to create the same environment in today's schools.

[rbg81]

He richly deserves every nanosecond of regret and anguish—and then some.

[Daveinyork]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov

It’s just how totalitarians operate.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Recommended reading: “Life and Death in Shanghai” by Nena Cheng.

[IronJack]

It’s hard to believe that God forgives even someone who is this big a tool.

[PoloSec]

This type of child indoctrination is going on right now in many if not most public schools in the U.S., where communism abounds.

Most parents don’t know it, and many could care less.

Destruction of the family is the primary goal of the communist education system, it has a ways to go here, but it seems to be on the fast track.

[Flintlock]

Anybody out there in the good ‘ol U,S, of A think it can’t happen over here??

Didn’t think so.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

TELL THEM HOW YOU REALLY FEEL about the clown! I just did!

mostatefair@mda.mo.gov

[Tijeras_Slim]

"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children."

Orwell "1984"

[Uncle Miltie]

“Tombstone”

[reed13k]

16+46 doesn’t equal 60 either he was 14 or he’s now 62....hmm sad story of how easy it is to brainwash the youth.