Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution
Witness History: Witness Archive 2016
English - November 02, 2016 08:58 - 8 minutes - 4.03 MB - ★★★ - 8 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 1966 China's communist leader declared the start of a Cultural Revolution. It was carried out by millions of young people, part of Mao's Red Guards. Lucy Burns has been speaking to Saul Yeung, who was just 20 years old when he joined up.
Photo: Chinese Red Guards reading from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book (Getty Images)