Topic: Is it true that every red heart shines towards the great red sun?

Anonymous A started this discussion 14 years ago #16,844

I heard this as Maoist propaganda... As you annihilate the sparrow, the stealer of seed, the harvests will abound? Yet as the millions became skinnier and skinnier, their leaders became fatter and fatter. Was their true enemy blind idolatry?

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later[^] [v] #287,654

It's funny because Mao caused a severe food shortage when The Great Leap Forward failed.

(Edited 7 minutes later.)

Depressionchina !!OSMfyYTCs joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 6 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,710

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
It did NOT fail. It improved the lives of many Chinese who had formerly suffered.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 5 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,717

@previous (Depressionchina !!OSMfyYTCs)
> millions dead
> famines, famines everywhere
> economy regressed
> Mao quietly removed from power because of it
Nah, it failed hard.

Depressionchina !!OSMfyYTCs replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,719

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
You have the wrong story. Chairman Mao is a hero. Many, many farmers got to move to the city and occupy good jobs.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,723

@previous (Depressionchina !!OSMfyYTCs)
Ah, I understand. Is the people's reublic monitoring you for anti-Maoist opinions?

Depressionchina !!OSMfyYTCs replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,724

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Of course not. There is freedom here.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 8 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,727

@previous (Depressionchina !!OSMfyYTCs)
It's okay, I was only joking. Praise Mao. There's no need to raid this fine man's home.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 5 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,731

Mao's regime wasn't as bad as what happened in WWII, but it was still bad.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,732

This thread made me lol.

Have no fear DepressionChinaComrade

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 28 seconds later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,733

@287,731 (D)
The Cultural Revoloution especially was horrendous. Even Mao himself thought it got out of hand.

Anonymous D replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,734

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Don't you mean Mao's second-in-command (I forget his name) who brought about market reforms after Nixon visited China?

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 4 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,738

@previous (D)
Yeah, Mao didn't outright say the Cultural Revoloution went too far but he did make all the young people go and work on countryside farms to defuse the whole thing (which actually worked out quite well).

I think you could bs taking about Deng there. D'you mean the guy who introduced capitalist elements to the economy?

Anonymous D replied with this 14 years ago, 50 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,758

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Yes, Deng Xiaoping.

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