“Many people think they can live a much better life than during the Cultural Revolution,” he said. However, their interests would be at stake if CCP leader Xi Jinping closed China’s doors to the world.

During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in China, extensive campaigns wiped out intellectuals and scholars who were seen as a threat to communist teachings.

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of violent campaigns like the Cultural Revolution.

History textbooks describe the Cultural Revolution, which had long been characterized as a "ten-year catastrophe," as an "arduous probing" of social construction, reverting its nature and obviously clearing historical obstacles for the ultra-leftist policies

It sought to destroy Falun Gong because it awakens China’s spiritual and moral foundation, which was crushed during the Cultural Revolution.

In the later time, the adverse effects of the CCP's Cultural Revolution on the economy became evident, and it was unable to meet the increasing demands of the VCP.

Mao, the first Chinese leader, launched the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, which threw the most populous country in the world into chaos.

Something as drastic as the Cultural Revolution was about to start all over again. The black cloud of oppression choking the country signaled that something as drastic as the Cultural Revolution was about to start all over again.

Mao’s last major forced reform, the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” from 1966 to 1776, was actually a fortuitous event for the United States, as it distracted the CCP from U.S. actions in nearby Vietnam.

Young Chinese people demonstrate during the “great proletarian Cultural Revolution” in front of the French embassy, in Beijing, China, in January 1967.

A title not seen since China’s Cultural Revolution has reemerged. The Communist Party’s central committee dubbed leader Xi Jinping China’s "Helmsman." It’s the same term used to describe former leader Mao Zedong.

In the late 1970s, after a decade of the Cultural Revolution that effectively dismantled traditional education in China, Chinese authorities were eager to catch up to the West.

During the 1966 Cultural Revolution in China, extreme materialism, as well as Darwinism, took over the already troubled land, violently forcing out Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions.

The failed coup plan triggered the CCP's largest purge since the end of the Cultural Revolution.

This conflict emerged in the wake of a shift in the balance of power in North-East Asia following China’s Cultural Revolution and the United States’ increasing involvement in the Vietnam War.

McEnerney also praised Shen Yun's mission to revive China's traditional culture, which was almost exterminated during the Cultural Revolution and is in constant threat under today's communist rule.

“If you look at the number of people killed in the campaign to suppress counter-revolutionaries...the number is approaching 10 million,” he said, referring to the ideological projects of Land Reform, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution

It is a term coined by CCP leader Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s as he urged Party members to learn from the experiences of Fengqiao Township, Zhejiang Province.

It was passed down master-to-apprentice over the ages in ancient China, but much was lost over time and with the Cultural Revolution cutting off China's ties to its culture and past. "You have to change the way you danced before," Yang explained.

“And I know that during the Maoist Cultural Revolution, he [Mao Zedong] divided the Chinese people, the bourgeois from the peasants or the working people, and here in America, they're trying to divide us in every way,” Dobson said.

They pointed out that “CCP leads everything” was an order put out by former CCP leader Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution—the tightest communist control period—and it’s outdated and shouldn’t be put into practice today.

Additionally, about 7.73 million Chinese were killed in the subsequent Cultural Revolution campaign from 1966 to 1976.

One of the IHRC's four directors, Saied Reza Ameli, is the Tehran-based secretary of one of Iran’s leading policymaking bodies, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, which has the goal of ensuring an "all-out cultural assault of the enemies

Many perished under the regime’s political movements, such as during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the ongoing persecution of adherents of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, and the imprisonment of millions of ethnic and religious minorities

Another explanation for our own cultural revolution is that our friends on the left are masters (uh, oh, this word may not any longer be acceptable) of language.

“The Cultural Revolution, you know, the student movement in Tiananmen Square—so many students [were] killed.”

It is tantamount to an encouragement in disguise that everyone should report others, one of the trademark whistleblowing cultures during the Cultural Revolution, which will become more and more prevalent in Hong Kong, creating a slippery slope effect

He described in detail the senseless violence that he and other diplomats witnessed in China in the late 1960s during the turbulent Cultural Revolution, telling The Epoch Times, “We all saw terrible things.”

The CCP destroyed the moral foundations of its society by launching the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, during which traditional ideas, culture, habits, and customs were branded “the Four Olds” and were eliminated.