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‘Flesh banquets’ of China’s Cultural Revolution remain unspoken, 50 years on
AFP ^
| May 11, 2016
| AFP
Posted on 05/11/2016 7:28:12 PM PDT by OddLane
At the height of the frenzy of Chinas 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 1966; 1989; cannibalism; china; classstruggle; classwarfare; communism; culturalrevolution; fleshbanquets; greatleapforward; guangxi; mao; maoism; scarletmemorial; tiananmensquare; wuxuan; zhengyi
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:28:12 PM PDT
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OddLane
To: OddLane
I thought this was common knowledge...
To anyone over 40...
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:31:10 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
To: Popman
China was an evil place in the 1960’s and 1970’s
It has actually come a long way
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:32:47 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
To: OddLane
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:33:04 PM PDT
by
ghosthost
To: OddLane
Mao.
Hero of today’s progressives.
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:33:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: OddLane
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:36:35 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: OddLane
One from column A and one from column B...
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:37:03 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: OddLane
Obviously no fava beans and Chianti was served at the same time, or was there?
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:37:59 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
To: OddLane
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:38:06 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
To: tumblindice
Cream of Sum Yung Man?
I think it was Sum Yung Guy at the Hung Far Low Cafe.
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:39:33 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: dainbramaged
First time I saw a `Hunan Restaurant’ sign, I thought—WTF?
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:42:04 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: dainbramaged
We always thought our local Chinese restaurant sold dog. On the menu was young chow fried rice.
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:43:00 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(her name is no longer is Hillary. It's Hilarity. Try it on for size, it's fun to say)
To: BenLurkin
And the great Republican statesman, Nixon, spit on the graves of his millions of victims. None of Obama’s disgusting subservience to petty dictators comes close to Nixon’s betrayal of American principle and the Chinese people. He legitimized the greatest killer in the history of the world. I have always considered Nixon the father of the modern GOP:a self-righteous coward who capitulated to evil without gaining a single concession and one who usurped the Constitution though chicanery and bribery.
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posted on
05/11/2016 7:48:26 PM PDT
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antidisestablishment
(If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
To: dainbramaged
#10. No. That was on the menu at the One Hung Low bar and grill in San Francisco.
To: EQAndyBuzz
#12.If your fried rice barked, you were right.
To: Popman; Ciexyz
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:09:08 PM PDT
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OddLane
To: antidisestablishment
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:10:48 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Popman
I’m over 60, and this the first time in my life I’ve seen it mentioned. I haven’t tried to seek out knowledge of atrocities.
Most revolutions (Protestant, French, Marxist), have involved sexual revolution and debauchery. Cf. Democrat party.
To: OddLane
And what the Japanese did to the Chinese in Nanking in 1938-39 was probably the most gruesome slaughter of all in China.
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:13:01 PM PDT
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hecticskeptic
(In life it's important to know what you believe�.but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
To: hecticskeptic
“And what the Japanese did to the Chinese in Nanking in 1938-39 was probably the most gruesome slaughter of all in China.”
Nope, the Great Helmsman was worse.
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posted on
05/11/2016 8:21:29 PM PDT
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Fai Mao
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