Comment by Affric
1 year ago
With all due respect your opinion was better when it was viewable as pure hyperbole.
Mao kicked off the cultural Revolution in May 1966. By August the Cultural Revolution was in full swing. That’s 4 months.
The cultural Revolution was sudden.
> The cultural Revolution was sudden.
The Cultural Revolution could only have happened due to the very specific ideological backdrop that existed in China at the time. The heights of it were sudden, but it didn't come out of nowhere.