Thread by @ExposeCommies_

U.S. media & others around the world are commemorating #CCP100Years, so let’s discuss the Cultural Revolution truthfully.

“During the Cultural Revolution, the collection of bullet fees had great symbolic value to revolutionaries.

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“Following the public trial & execution of Liu Wenhui as a counter revolutionary on March 27, 1967, a mob of “revolutionary rebels” and indignant neighbors led by an officer from the police station descended on his home shouting “down with” slogans…

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“while police collected a bullet fee from his mother. Likewise, after the execution of the musician Lu Hongen two days before that of Lin Zhao, the authorities demanded a bullet fee from his wife.

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“The collection of bullet fees was not the only means of inflicting additional pain and shame on the family of the condemned. On August 28, 1967, the day of Shan Songlin’s public trial & execution, an official arrived at his home to announce the execution…

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“… and to draw a clear line between themselves and Shan. He also had Shan’s death warrant posted on the wall of his house, as a neighborhood crowd rushed in to smash the door and the windows.

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“When Shan’s wife & children arrived at the crematorium fo claim his ashes, the staff greeted them by vigorously reciting in unison a passage from Mao’s Little Red Book. Shan’s family returned home without his ashes.

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“Soon afterward, the Red Guards arrived to search Shan’s home & to remove all pictures of him. “They not only annihilated his body, Shan’s son said, “they also wanted to wipe off his memory from our hearts.”

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“To atone for Shan’s counterrevolutionary crime, his wife was made to kneel in front of Mao’s portrait. Finally, Shan’s small house was confiscated and the entire family thrown out into the street.” — BLOOD LETTERS, Lian Xi

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