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.

1/ “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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In Voronezh, seven nuns were boiled in a cauldron of tar. The bishop of Voronezh was boiled alive in a big pot; after which the monks, with revolvers aimed at their heads, were forced to drink this soup. Priests were stripped naked, blasphemously married to sows, then nailed to the crucifix over the altar.

Yemelyan Yaroslavsky was an Old #Bolshevik who, in 1901, had written for Iskra (The Spark), Lenin’s first revolutionary magazine. Yaroslavsky headed up the Society for the Friends of the Newspaper Bezbozhnik, later called The League of Militant Godless. The League was a state–sanctioned vehicle: after churches were plundered, they were turned into warehouses or workshops, or sometimes bulldozed by members of the League.

Victor & his little sister, Anastasia, were asleep in the living room when the mob shattered the windows of their home. The Komsomol members swarmed into their homes & began pulling family portraits off the walls & breaking furniture, as they yelled “you filthy Kulaks!” As the stunned family surveyed the damage after the mob left, one of their lifelong friends rushed in & shouted, “The church is burning!” The Ivanov family raced down the street to the village church where flames were shooting out of the broken windows.